January 2017 we localized our leadership.
What does that mean exactly?
Under our international NGO our home church in the USA was responsible for our leadership and upper level board decisions. But as we've grown and as we continue to grow we came to the realization that our Cambodian ministry has grown so large that we have created needs that could really only be meet here locally.
So to become more efficient in our service, to continue to raise up locals to do the work, to get real time answers and take on all the responsibilities for the ministry we worked to come up with a solution. In agreement and with encouragement from our pastor we've taken steps to secure our leadership, localize our boards and file for a local Cambodian non proffit or Non Government Organization (NGO).
Sunday April 2 the new NGO was announced to our congregation in California that their baby had grown up and now I can share this exciting news with you our international friends and support net work.
Calvary Chapel Fallbrook still donate to us and still receive funds on our behalf as they always have, standing in as a 501c3 providing tax incentives to our donors.
We have to give glory to Christ who called us to the mission field and we give our everlasting gratitude to Pastor Pat who got us going and Pastor Barry who has done more for us than anyone will ever know. We love the home we grew up in and the people we call brothers and sisters.
A Big Thank you our Calvary Chapel Fallbrook family.
I'd love to take this opportunity to introduce you to our new Non Government Organization.
A Greater Hope. N.G.O.
An official Non profit of Cambodian
A Greater Hope NGO ministries still included
A Greater Hope Orphanage & A Heart for Wisdom school
Ream as a Cambodian national has been made Director of AGH NGO.
Ream has also been made Director of the AGH Orphanage as the government also has a new requirement that a Cambodian national must run Cambodian orphanages.
I, Kit Carson remain Director of A Heart for Wisdom school.
We are currently working on some fundamental changes to our ministries, our structure and how we might better interact with you and keeping you more informed.
We've been given such great a gift from Micheal, Director CCBC Kauai. He will have a new website up for us very soon that integrates the blog and all social media things that we are suppose to be using in one place.
Some things we are working towards;
1. Family assistance, in home care, local adoptions and possibly even foster care with our church families here.
2. We're praying right now about opening a chapel on the new campus and starting a Sunday service.
3. We are a year maybe two from starting a vocation/ngo/bible college and we'll share about this later.
4. Most importantly we are working towards something called Ministry Partners.
5. Ministry Partners in short is going to open some doors for those who wanted to support the ministry but didn't work out for some reason. We're going to do what we can to make sure anyone wanting to get involved can, as much or as little as they want in any aspect of what we do.
Our number one concern in this is ensuring our current children sponsorship program remains secure and those relationships continue to grow while at the same time covering children expenses that still exist outside the sponsorship programs we already have. Two examples of top of my head are finances for school and medical. One trip to the doctor can cost well over the yearly income from a sponsor.
So we really want to open the door to everyone with this new program, cover all our cost and give us room to grow as the ministry requires.
Thank you all for your time and commitment to our organization, we're so close to so many of you. Honestly when I think about all the people who have done so much for the ministry and kept up relationships with us after so many years it's humbling.
It's something only Christ could have done, I hope everyone involved can see that, Amen?
It's something only Christ could have done, I hope everyone involved can see that, Amen?
Temporarily
Our New Website Address Is
We are going to change it to
https://agreaterhope.org
I'll announce the chance when it takes place
