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We are an absolute Christian Organisation engaged on charity work to help fellow Christians in Africa particularly in East Africa through Churches. We work under exegesis of Bible Baptist Churches in USA and East Africa to eradicate poverty and provide assistance to Orphanage,Vocational Training, Income Generating Projects and health related projects in East Africa. This was the vision of our founder Pastor William Anderson who served as Missionary in East Africa for 34 years before retiring in January 16th.1996 and founding the IPS FOUNDATION before his death in March 1999.ANY CHURCH/ORGANISATION REQUESTING DONATION/FUNDING MUST BE A CHURCH AFFILIATED PROJECT. xxxx. The Foundation believes in helping the local community in different ways.IPS Foundation holds Red Cross Blood Drives every quarter, every year we collect blankets for the needy Brethren at Christmas time. We have collected clothes (new/used), for our projects in Uganda and Kenya. Our groups are now engaged on collections of donations throughout the United States.xxxxx. Our objective is to collect material donations i.e used/new clothing's, fundraise through collection/sales of used stamps across the world, place donation boxes at hotels, stores and other public doors, through our sister churches and pass the collections to fellow Christians who are suffering in Africa to fight poverty through initiating (IGA) Income Generating Activities for self reliant. All project in Africa are vetted by Co-Brethren and approved by the Field Coordinator in Uganda. NOTE: We do not respond to unsolicited/unchristian project funding requests.FOR ANY KIND OF DONATION PLEASE CONTACT Field Coordinator directly. More to come soon xxxx.The Postings are collected from various CHURCHES ACROSS USA. JULY 2007.xxxx. Josh recently wrote the following article for our team newsletter. About a week later, Miguel and his wife Gabriella, both made the decision to put the Lord on in baptism. God is good! We are so excited to welcome this wonderful family into the family of God. Please pray for the many more who are on the brink of making the same decision. "The gestation period for chickens is 21 days. For rabbits it's just ten days more than that. Growing up I remember waiting on each of these animals to bring new life into the world. One gets up in the morning wondering if today could be the day. JP our colt took us all by surprise because we didn't know exactly when the mare had been sired. Usually though, one can know with pretty good precision when to expect the new little ones. If only one's birth in Christ were so easy to calculate. Many factors are at stake in determining one's birth in Christ, namely cultural and familial influence, education and open-heartdness. The scale to calculate the growth and development of a soul is not an exact science but a discipline in waiting on the Lord. We missionaries are waiting on edge with anticipation as several are on the verge of making a commitment to Christ. Their decision to put Christ on in baptism is neither an easy one nor one made lightly. Often their choice goes against their family's upbringing and teaching. "Baptism?" the family asks. "But we baptized you on your first birthday." However difficult the decision, C-section or inducement is not an option. We must rest on God's time-table. They will be "children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God." (John 1:13) Recently, Butch went out and bought a foldable, PVC-framed baptistery. He actually spent above his budget because he got the next size up. His reasoning? "Well, I wasn't sure if we were going to get Miguel covered in that other one," He said. There are many like our large-framed Bolivian friend whom we hope to be "born anew" in the near future. Please be praying for their decision and our patience as we wake each morning with anticipation." xxx. Why We Give: Love 2 Corinthians: 8:8-9, 24; 1 John 3:17-18 Sweetest Day is coming up this next Saturday. You may or may not be aware of Sweetest Day as if we needed another day to buy candy but it evidently is popular in the Detroit area. It has become sort of fall Valentine's Day. Giving gifts to people we love has a long history and most of us enjoy the gift giving if not necessarily the gift shopping (I am speaking as a guy). In a sense it is a test of our love for another. Extravagance and expense say one thing but most of the time it is thought and concern behind the gift that speak the loudest. I. Testing Love The passage from Paul is rather blunt. The Corinthian gift that they agreed to is a test of their sincerity of love. We talked a few weeks ago about giving as a test of our faith, that is what we believe about God and his promises concerning giving. It is probably easier to think about testing our faith. Usually we think that trials are the test of our faith. How will we respond in a crisis? What will I say if someone attacks what I believe? There are many different ways that our faith is tested. But I believe testing love is different. For sure love is tested in crisis. Can I forgive when a loved one betrays me? Can I continue to love someone who isn't very lovable? Those are tests. But I believe love is tested in a more positive way by our desire to do or to give to the object of our love and affection. We smile at the rather sometimes silly and extravagant ways people demonstrate love when they are building a relationship. Giving gifts is part of this. It is not necessarily the cost of the gift but the thought and sentiment behind it that is important.xxxA SLUM IS BORN IN EAST AFRICA AS THAT IN NEW ZEALAND. We joined other Christian servants to Uganda and Kenya in urban poor and set out for the slums of Wandegeya and Mathare Valley, arriving in the midist of a typhoon. Perhaps this was an indication of what was in store for us over the next couple of years. On our arrival we were greeted by the sight of two burly, macho, gun- carrying policeman coming towards us. They simply asked if everything was all right. During our first night in the Servant's Retreat Center we were awakened by Colin Harrington calling us downstairs to help evacuate valuable equipment from five feet of filthy flood water at Mathare Slums. The day came when we had to pack our few belongings and move to the slum. Upon arriving at the slum, Colin helped us unload and then departed. Ruby and I, with our two little ones were left standing at our new home. We did not know the language, did not know a soul, and in this stark setting did not know how to cook, sleep or even bathe the children. As Colin faded in to the distance I stood there and cried. I felt utterly out of control. This feeling remained with me for the next year. I was scared! Ruby on the other hand, was so stunned by it all that she simply attended to her duties. Day - to - day survival became our agenda for much of that first year. There just wasn't enough emotional energy to give ourselves adequately to learning the language and understanding the culture and social issues of the community where we now lived. Every time I heard an airplane fly over I wished I was on it. Our missionary furlough in Uganda in three years' time seemed a life time away. It was as though we were "doing time" in jail. And, as often happens in jail, we were suddenly relocated. Because of personnel changes in the Servants organization our team decided, with our agreement, that we should go to another slum community called Wandegeya Kwata Slums which means "always helping." Wandegeya Kwata With in a week we found a house in Wandegeya Slums. It was not the home of our dreams but we found it livable. Our two plywood rooms shared walls with adjoining houses. The wooden floor had a gaping hole revealing a rat - infested sewerage pit which could be covered when not in use. After the first day the novelty of being in a new place was over. In many respects Wandegeya Slum was just like the slum we had left. Yet again we were surrounded by thousands of people, filthy conditions, vermin and insecurity. Often, visitors to Wandegeya Slum ask how such a place came in to existence in the first place Act One: Mary Here are two separate occasions in Uganda and Philipines. Mary, our landlady was poor because she had always been poor. Her mother had bequeathed her life and poverty. At the marriage altar, Mary brought this poverty to her equally poverty - stricken husband, who could only pledge more of the same. Forced by this reality to marry within their class, these two lives were joined in poverty. As husband and wife they squatted on the Mandelina Estate, the part of Uganda that later became known as Ntinda Estate. Their first house, a crude hut made of bamboo and nipa and whatever else could furnish, was near a river that became their source of fish and water. Their closest neighbors were many meters away. Far from idyllic, this beginning was rugged and unkind. Poverty, even in a landscape of tranquility, is still poverty. Mary can still recall how the owner of the land, a rich foreigner whose family had come to the Philippines chasing more wealth, used to ride around on his fine horse. Not content to be a land owner, he ran for Congress and lost. His political debts were such that he has to pawn his land to the banks. Eventually he returned to his homeland and the banks took over the ownership of the estate. Mary, losing ground on so many fronts, knew very little of the political maneuverings that has affected the ownership of the land she lived on. She did, however, get word to family and friends in the provinces telling them of land that they could squat on. They came, with many other urban hopefuls around the world to be part of one of the greatest treks of the twentieth century: the rural - urban migration. Coming by foot and in small groups, they were barely noticed as they arrived on the estate. These little people were of no significance to
DONATIONS/FUNDING TO PROJECTS SINCE 2001
All Donations/Funds raised has been distributed to the projects as follows: Kaliro Christian Aids project, Uganda.Thesolaf Christian Aids Fund, Kenya. Usaap C. AIDS Projects,Kenya. Kayunga Bible Fellowship Church, Uganda. Hoima Banana Project, Uganda.NACOAP C. AIDS Project, Kenya, BUBU C AIDS Project, Kenya, Kwamara Christian Centre, Uganda.Langi C AIDS Project, New Zealand, Almojan Orphan School, Sudan. Amukeni Children Fund, Tanzania,Mathare 4 Christian Project,Kenya. Walkuba C. Self Help Project, Uganda. Teso Christian Womens Project, Uganda.xxx More to come
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