Children's Vision

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On Friday we had some guests over for supper. Jeneane Sanderson and her nephew Garrett.
Jeneane is a lady my Grandma knows who started an outreach ministry in Bogota' Columbia 15 years ago. Its called Children's Vision International, Inc. (CVII)
At CVII they take in children off the streets whose parents are drug addicts, gang members, or dead. They are often addicted to the drugs themselves, have chronic malnutrition, horrible rat bites and have never seen true love. When they first come often it is the first time they have worn clean clothes, had a warm bath and eaten lots of good food.
It takes time but eventually their fear and hate disappear, and they are truely happy children. From the start they are told about God's love and taught to love him. Many have been saved and are even wanting to be missionaries to other countries.
Children's Vision has 3 houses, the Genesis, Exodus and Numbers houses, and they are working to finish building their Beginning of Wisdom school, which used to be in their Leviticus house.
When Jeneane was here she shared with us about the kids, all 150 of them, all of whom call her Mom. She had brought with her their current DVD, that showed the last 15 years at CVII. So many lives touched, so many changed. Since God has blessed them with so many donations, more than they need, they also give to the poor people who live in the mountains.

In early December I will be getting to travel down to CVII with a team of volunteers. And I am SOOO excited!!!! About 8 years ago my Grandma got to travel down, and then I was to young, so now that I can go its like a dream come true!! Jeneane said the December team is always the funnest, because it'll be during their end of school party and graduation.

About every year they have this huge container of donations that gets sent down to Bogota' from their home office. Its filled with clothes, diapers and any other item they may need.
But Jeneane told us that they really need hygene items for their older kids. (Like boys deoderant, razors and after shave, feminine hygene napkins, etc)
So I'm sending out this plea for donations for them. Being a teenager is hard, as we all know, and this kinda stuff really makes it easier. You can learn more about CVII at www.childrensvision.org


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