Gifts for Jesus 2011

Last year our Christmas gift for Jesus was providing clean drinking water for kids in Uganda. We helped to drill wells in villages so that kids wouldn’t have to spend hours every day carrying water. 
 
This year we’re helping them get an education!
 
In order for 50 orphan boys in the town of Juba to attend school they need a healthy place to stay. We are raising $20,000 to build them a dorm right next to the Christian school. This will be their home. This will be their family. This will be their hope for the future.
 
You can make checks payable to Pomerado Christian Church with JUBA in the memo line. Or go to www.hope4kidsinternational.org. 
 

Why not give a donation in someone’s name and tell them they are helping wipe out poverty in Uganda? 

Safe Water 4 Kids - Bwaya, Uganda in Africa

The people of Bwaya currently drink from either an open pond or an animal watering hole.  Did you know that 75% of deaths in these remote villages are because of unclean water?  And most of the kids that die are under the age of five. That means that half of the small children in Bwaya will die. You can help by donating money so we can dig wells in Bwaya.  For more information, view the Hope 4 Kids International Organization's website at

Not only are hoping to raise have we raised enough money for 2 WELLS to be drilled, we raised enough money to drill FOUR (4) WELLS!! 

Visit the Safe Water 4 Bwaya, Uganda website for information on raising donations to help villages in Africa get deep water wells drilled, so they no longer have to drink water from animal watering holes and other contaminated water sources.

Jug-A-Thon: Walking For Water
January 9, 2011
Donation Results

Our members, students, and friends enjoyed the fun and experience of carrying full water bottles around in backpacks in a Jug-A-Thon to raise money for the Safe Water for Bwaya project!  For the Jug-A-Thon alone, over $3000.00 was raised!!

Event News:
Walkers / Joggers had 1 hour to walk as many laps as possible on their chosen course.  Some people walked / jogged the 1/4 mile flat course, where one full bottle of water (16 oz) was added to each individual's backpack.  The more adventurous people walked / jogged the 1/2 mile hilly course, where two full bottles of water (32 oz) were added to each individual's backpack (one bottle at each end of course). 

There were walkers of every age, from 1 month (Mom pushed in stroller) to 80 yrs young!  The weather felt cool at first, but walkers / joggers were happy for the cooler temperatures as the bottles were piled into their backpacks, plastic bags, and strollers. 

Congratulations to all the Jug-A-Thon walkers, joggers, and babies who helped us raise over $3000.00!!

A big THANK YOU goes out to all the volunteers who helped make the Jug-A-Thon a huge success!!

Watch this video to see the total donation results for this year's Gifts For Jesus 2010 project!!

World Missions

Pomerado has committed to the support of several missions throughout the world, including several formed by members of our own church.

We have sponsored several trips to Tijuana, Mexico to bring much needed supplies from clothes and shoes, to building bunk beds for children at the Tijuana Christian Mission. Several members have also flown to Trujillo, Peru to help build walls and share God's Word with this farming community. As a congregation, we raised MOOla (money) to help this same Peruvian community co-op purchase cows to build their milking herd, which in turn helped the farmers earn an income from the milk sold to the community.

Mexico

Pomerado has supported the Tijuana Christian Mission, City of Refuge for many years, both through financial support, and materials and labor contributions.
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We have committed to monthly support of the Reaser's mission in Mazatlan, Mexico. The Reaser family has been part of Pomerado for many years, starting with John's parents who worked with Mission Aviation Fellowship. Now John and his wife Rachel are working as missionaries in Mazatlan.
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Nepal

Pomerado commits to monthly support of Mission to Nepal. This effort, started by PCC former youth minister Steve Kaptain, has become a diverse effort to reach the youth of Nepal. Based in the capital of Kathmandu, a city of 1.3 million, Steve works with native church leaders, to mentor and model ways of spreading the Bible gospel to this mostly Hindu country.
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Peru

Pomerado has committed to the support of Project New Hope International. This is a new style of mission work. Its focus is disciple making, and church planting through a huge team of North American churches, equipping national workers to carry out the work in their own country.
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Philippines

We have commited to monthly support of the McKinney's in Luzon, Philippines.  Carol was a member of the Pomerado Christian Youth Group as a teen, and joined with her husband to serve in the Philippines.
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We have commited to the support of Marydel Glass in Cebu, Philippines.  Marydel began attending Pomerado Christian Church several years ago. She participated in several short term missions and felt the calling to serve her native country full time.  She has single handedly started the ambitious, and very successful Restored Heritage Foundation, serving the needs of women and children in the Philippines on the islands of Cebu and Bohol.
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Thailand

We have commited to monthly support of the North Thailand Mission. Joni Morse is a third generation missionary in the Chiang Mai Province.
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Zimbabwe

Pomerado has supported the Pemberton's mission in Africa for over 30 years.  We are very pleased that Leanna Pemberton can visit with us on October 3, 2010. She will update us on the continuing work at Mashoko/Hippo Valley Christian Mission, with the work at the Orphanages in Chiridzi, and the overall mission in Zimbabwe.  Learn more...

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