Download – Furniture store manager  (South Chorley)

Download – Van driver (South Chorley)

Download – Charity shop managers (Chorley & Bamber Bridge)

The show will be held on Friday, 20th. April at 2pm in the Community Hall, Benllech. Admission £3.50 which will be including refreshments.

We’ve added some photos from last years event for you to enjoy.

We’ve had a busy few weeks since the beginning of November during which time we have distributed 11,000 Christmas shoe box gifts; made up and given out 200 food packets.

Each month we make a 3 day trip to the Hunedoara/Hateg area; as well as three weekly church services and other meetings locally.

The ‘gift’ photos were taken in our meeting at Pata.  Present were aprox150 children plus 25 adults….15 prayed with us to receive Jesus!

They have the BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT possible: praise God for His gift of life through Christ Jesus!

In 3rd photograph I am not shouting at the kids: the gift was HEAVY!

In his love.

Rufus and Dee

The most recent donation – 2 very large boxes of knitted hats and scarves were distributed to the children of Peschanoye Orpahange, Odessa. The photographs show some of the children receiving these wonderful gifts.

“We are delighted that International Aid will be able to make good use of the hygiene products,” said Adrian Shuker, Sustainability Director for OCS. “OCS is a privately owned company with over 110 years of trading. During this time, the family values of five generations have underpinned a culture of corporate responsibility which has been supported strongly by our staff.”

Bernard Cocker, CEO and Founder of International Aid Trust commented: “Support such as this allows us to carry out our work with many thousands of people in over 40 countries. Today, every kind of donation is precious, no matter how big or small, and we do our utmost to make every penny count.”

They have to resort to stealing or rely on the help and support of charities to provide food, clothing and shelter.  One of the greatest problems is that this is normal life to them, and they know no different.

Approximately 200,000 children live on the streets in Ukraine alone, in places like this.  It’s time to show them compassion, care and hope.  In this life or death situation we can make a difference by showing real and unconditional Christian love.  We know it works; whatever a young person has been involved with in the past their lives can be turned around.  Your help can change despair to a better life and a brighter future.

International Aid Trust supports Christian homes for needy children all over the world for those in desperate circumstances who have reached rock bottom. Our sponsorship program aims to be a preventative step to avoid that desperation and is bringing life changing hope to many young lives.

We would like to expand these facilities to help more people and so require even greater support in order to reach a larger number more effectively. Without your help many children will continue sleeping on the streets, having to beg, steal or be used in the sex industry, at such young ages, just to get enough to live on. We want to stop that situation happening, please help us do that.

Help for the Forgotten Children of Eastern Europe

Much of our ministry focuses on the downtrodden and forgotten people of our world and a very important part of this is our “Street Children’s Ministry”. There are literally millions of children living on, and under, the streets and slums of our world, Many of these little ones have to fight to be born and then fight to survive even to reach the bottom rung of life’s ladder without falling off. From as young as five or six years old we see these “unwanted ones” begging or stealing food. In Eastern Europe children between the ages of eight to fourteen can be jailed if caught stealing food or clothing. The correct terminology is “Adolescent Correctional Colony” but it looks and smells like jail. A “Remand Colony for Young Adults” (fourteen to eighteen years) is the next stage up, where poverty and illiteracy are two common denominators. Such institutions suffer greatly from a high incidence of suicide.

Just by introducing volunteer teachers we saw the suicide rate drop dramatically – because someone cared. Yes, there are orphanages but most of the children here fare little better. A recent survey reported that within six months of leaving the orphanages at seventeen years old 50% of boys were in prison, whilst 40% of girls were selling themselves on the street. (And some really see this as a good career move).

In Odessa the work is headed up by Pastor Oleg Vasilchuk and his wife Tatiana, (seen below with street children).

We want to build on the many success stories that we see, hear and experience in the mission field.

Look below at these former street children. From a living death to life, that’s the difference we can achieve with your help on one hand and the life changing gospel of Christ in the other.

Then they brought infants to Jesus that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus then said; “Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them; for theirs is the kingdom of God” Luke 18: 14-16

Again, I cannot think of any one person whose life has been changed for the better by telling them that there is no God, no hope, no future, and no love. But I can tell you of many whose lives have been changed for the better by the very opposite of these negatives.

Blessings and peace

Rev Rtn Bernard Cocker
CEO & Founder

Since then and with Virgin sponsorship the V Festival has grown and grown.

One of the off-shoots of the festival is the amount of ‘debris’ that is left afterwards. In keeping with its ‘green aims’, much of this debris is
collected by organisations for recycling. International Aid Trust can claim to be a grateful recipient of some of this, namely many thousands of tents and other camping gear left by the festival goers.

We at International Aid Trust are most grateful for the help given by together with Rotary and Inner Wheel the Staffordshire Rotary Club of Brewood and District who Clubs of West Midlands acquire the equipment for us which is then sorted, cleaned and packed for distribution where there is a need. Much of this goes to children’s summer camps in various parts of the world. Some camps are held in the Ukraine under the direction of Pastor Paul (Pasha) Ozeruga who is based in the Kiev region and who supervises these camps in various regions including the Balaclava region on the beautiful Black Sea coast in Crimea.

1) Collection at the festival; this can be followed at the video links:

We are grateful for their help in this to Rotary, Inner Wheel and other Clubs in the Midlands, (N.B. WEM Club, near Wales, who have helped with additional transport by providing a 71/2 tonne lorry each year) – all organised by Brewood and District Rotary Club.

2) The tents arrive at International Aid Trust HQ in Much Hoole, Preston:

3) Sleeping bags are sent to Kirkham Open Prison to be cleaned by the prison laundry. The cleaned articles are returned to IAT’s warehouse at Much Hoole for storage until needed.

We are most grateful to Kirkham prison and the prisoners for their help in this.

4) The tents are then stored in IAT’s warehouse at Much Hoole until needed.

5) Warehouse manager Ed Huddleston loading tents and other equipment for transportation to the Ukraine (Crimea) and parts of Belarus for use in Children’s Summer Camps and other projects.

6) On site in a Children’s Camp in the Crimea with Pastor Poul and wife Irina.

7) Some of the fun and games had at the camps in Ukraine, Belarus and Romania.

“Thank you again to Brewood and District Rotary Club, of Staffordshire, who organise this Project; together with all the West Midland Rotary, Inner Wheel Clubs and other Organisations, involved in providing manpower; The Open prison at Kirkham and many individuals, who have made this particular part of our Ministry possible.”

As the pictures show it is all so well received.

Praise the Lord!!! Alleluia Alleluia!!!

“International Aid Trust -  Sierra Leone, New Hope Ministry,” is  beaming with Great Hope for the future for the children, staff, parents and all those who are blessed with the grace of Christ, as wonders of the Lord continue to manifest itself in our Ministry here in Sierra Leone. A great hope in the Lord lies ahead indeed!!!

God has put together a wonderful team to work in Sierra Leone. The Staff are motivated and are doing their best to contribute to the growth of this Mission.

Brothers and sisters we are very encouraged by all your support and prayers. We trust with the help of the Lord, we shall make adifference for these young children and all those the Lord Jesus Christ has entrusted to our Pastoral Ministry.

In this report we will look at the work we have been doing and focus on some activities.  Among some of the activities carried out during this period we will be looking at are:

•     Pastoral Work

1. Sunday school and service
2. Home visits
3. School service
4. Hospital visits
5. Visit to inmates of the police cells
6. Counselling and guidance

•     School Work

1. School feeding project
2. Teaching
3. Counselling

•     Projects

1. School Building
2. Water Well 

The overall goal of our Ministry is to bring Christ to others through His love and charity.  To reach this great goal, we have set ourselves objectives, which we shall look at shortly.

We also accomplished some set of activities which were scheduled for the period under review, i.e. April – May.

We have summarized some of our activities and examined the overall impact, Challenges of our Pastoral Mission, and we are now able to outline some of them.

OUR VISION:

• “Christian Compassion to a Hurting World” and to bring others to Christ through love.

OBJECTIVES:

• To raise awareness of Christ’s presence in the community.
• To provide children with adequate meals and safe drinking water. 
• To enhance an effective teaching and learning environment.
• To share Christ’s Love with the poor and the deprived through love and charity.

SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES:

• Organised prayer services on Sundays.
• Organised school prayer service every Tuesday from 12:00 – 1:30 pm, with the New Hope School Family.
• Organised community prayer services on Fridays.
• Visits to the poor and the lonely in their homes.
• Visits to inmates in Police Cells.
• Hospital visits.
• Facilitating medical assistance to the hospital for very needy people.
• Preparing and making sure every child has a meal and on time.
• Making sure Staff are in high spirits and motivated to give the best of their time to the Ministry.
• Teaching.
• Organized the visit of Rev Bill Roberts (IAT Adviser) to New Hope village.
• Monitoring and Supervising activities, i.e. Ministry, School and Projects.
• Reporting.

OUR WEEKLY MINISTRY WORK SCHEDULE:

For our Pastoral Mission work in Sierra Leone, we have outlined a daily guide for the week.

• Mondays…  Home visits 16:30 – 18:00
• Tuesdays…   Service with the general school community 12:00 –13:30
• Wednesdays…  Visits to inmates at the Lungi Police cell 17:00 – 18:00
• Thursdays… visits to the Mahera/Government hospitals16:30 – 18:30
• Fridays…  Community Prayer meetings at New Hope Village16:30 – 18:30                      
• Saturdays…  Preparing for Sunday services 17:30 – 18:30
• Sundays…  Sunday school and service at New Hope Village 09:00 – 11-30
• Home Visitation to members absent for Sunday service –11:50 – 13:00

BRIEF REPORT ON ACTIVITIES:

Home visits are an integral component in our Pastoral work, for us this is the very first contact in reaching out and meeting people/ families who really need help and the Love of Christ. For most we have been in contact with, this gives them the opportunity of meeting the Grace of Christ.

At initial contact, we are often perfect strangers, but after the sharing of our faith accompanied by action we become part of that family.

Story

Sick Family Visits

One example was a family we visited and discovered that they were all very sick.

“Members of this Kamara family are all Muslims and live 3km from the IAT Site in Lungi Sierra Leone.  Three of the children come to our school; Morlie is 3 yrs old, and his sisters Ramatu 4½ years and sister Aminata who is 7.  These children walk to our school on every weekday. The mother of these three children was also very sick, in fact even worse, and it seems likely that she became ill first and infected the children with the typhoid fever.

We later learnt that almost all of them were sick with typhoid, malaria, hook worms and pneumonia, “…this family is really sick”, the doctor told us after the examination.  Sadly at the time of this visit the youngest child a 1 year old girl had already died. When we met this family, they had lost all hope because they could not afford or meet the high medical cost of going to the hospital, and relied only on giving the children traditional herbs which can sometimes be administered causing an overdose and in most times cause neurosis of the liver.

We took the whole family to hospital the following day which was a Monday, we helped with the ins and outs of the hospital registration, (as this family hardly evergo to hospital), consultation with the doctor, laboratory tests and analysis, drug dispensation. We took the family back to their home in the evening and we did this on four occasions.

We prayed together with this family for their recovery, our prayers were followed by action to seek remedy to this family’s problem. Our action was to help in advocating for medical support, praise the Lord!!! Today, this family has fully recovered.

The extended families and the whole neighbourhood were very happy for they were saying among themselves “The Christians are helping us”, we give God all the glory. Thank God today; the three children come to our prayer meetings and services on Sundays”.

Our General School Service:

Sadly some our many children cannot attend our prayer service on Sundays. Most of the children had said that they wanted to come to church on Sundays, but because of family commitments it was not possible.

Our Tuesday weekly meetings which start at12:00 – 13:30 have become a unique opportunity for all the Muslim children and Staff to meet Christ in a very special way. During these meetings we discuss in very simple terms anyissues and concerns the children may have.  It was against this backdrop that we decided to give the children and staff the opportunity of having a week day service during the normal school period – Praise the Lord, Alleluia!!!  We read the scriptures, learn Christian songs and share the word of God and relate it to our daily lives.  Soon we hope to start showing Bible video stories to share with the children and staff – from the story of creation, who is Jesus, The Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan etc.

The result of these meetings is very thrilling and sends chills down one’s spine when you really see these children singing, dancing and praising God at the top of their voices during these services.  The voices of the children during the praise and worship service echoes across the village which sometimes urges parents to rush to the school to see what ishappening, as this has never happened before in this predominantly Muslim community.  This is very interesting, but the children will sing even louder when they see their parents or guardians standing by in complete astonishment and disbelief.

One immediate impact we have already observed is the slow but steady increase of the children coming to our Sunday services.  Praise the Lord!!! What is more thrilling than to see the parents themselves bringing their children to our Sunday Services?

VISIT TO INMATES OF THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS:

Since the visit of Rev. Rtn. Bishop Bernard to Sierra Leone in January 2011, we have continued in his footsteps to visit the places we visited and ministered together.

One of such places is the Lungi Police Headquarters, where we usually meet youths mostly boys of about 12- 16 years, who have been brought to the police because of some very minor offences.  The Chief Police Commander, Francis Nyuama Bundor, who himself is a Christian, is always ready to receive us and so are the other ranks of the Police Officers, who will usually join us during our meetings.  We read passages from the Bible; share the word of God with inmates and the police officers present. We pray together for forgiveness, (as we are all sinners and fallen short of the grace of God) for all our wrong doings in the past and we will resolve that all of us have to repent and accept Christ in our lives as our personal Lord and Saviour.

In our meetings, we also offer the young boys counselling sessions and we make this service open to them at any time they feel the need.  Most of these young people we meet aresaved and were very sad and ashamed of their current predicament. One of the very reasons most young people cited that got them in conflict with the law was the lack of resources to be able to meet their school charges. They expressed that they have nobody to pay for their school expenses and would be more than glad to be in school. Some of the older youths who dropped out of school a long while ago also cited that they have no jobs to sustain them.  During our weekly visit, we always meet different youths in custody. The Police can only keep the people in custody for only 72 hours. After 72 hours, they may either be released or sent to the remand prison in Port Loko, the District Head Quarters (42km from Lungi).

We usually take the contacts of our new friends and try to do follow-ups during our general visits in the week. Most times we do locate our new friends within the communities and try to give them more confidence and better self-esteem. Most of them want to learn a trade or go back to school.

We are asking Our Lord Jesus to provide the opportunity for these young people. In this vein we are working out some small projects for sustainable economic empowerment targeting young people. Young People account for more than 70% of the Sierra Leone Population who are often misused by politicians during elections which are dueshortly in 2012.

Useful Projects for which we are praying for these young people will be:

• A Concrete Block making Machine.
• Organize a fishing project.
• Help with paying their school fees.
• Skills development training centre.

HOSPITAL VISITS:

Another place we visited with Bishop Bernard, were the two referral Hospitals, Bai Burreh Memorial Community Hospital and the Government Hospital. We have to confess that the conditions inboth hospitals, but especially the Government hospital are in as bad shape as the patients themselves.

Bishop Bernard prayed for and laid hands on many who were sick in these hospitals. He witnessed many terrible situations including one in every six mothers dying in childbirth. One young mother in her despair held up her new born baby to him as a gift saying, “ take her”.

STORY

Here is a story of a seriously injured man whom Bishop Bernard prayed for at Bai Burreh Memorial Community Hospital in Lungi, and who during his first official visit to Sierra Leone helped pay for his medical bills in an intensive care unit in Freetown.During that visit to Bai Burreh Memorial Community Hospital in January 2011, we met a man who had fallen from a fast lorry during a journey. He was lying unconscious, apparently in a coma, with blood oozing from his ears, mouth and nostrils. The Doctor, Dr. Moses was looking very helpless as he was ill equipped with the right instruments and medications to help the poor man, who he suspected may have had some serious head injury. The family of the man, also had no money with them, in-fact they were arranging amongst themselves how to get him out of the hospital to die with his pain at home, and reduce the bills at the hospital.

It was at this helpless situation that the Good Lord brought Bishop Bernard who immediately prayed over the injured man and helped the family with some money ($300) to take him to a more specialized Hospital for advance treatment in Freetown. This young man told us thathe continued to be in acoma and in the intensive care unit in Freetown for a week and spent another nine weeks in hospital. During this time his wife who was eight months pregnant had a miscarriage.

Today this man is fully well again, Praise the Lord!!!  He is now happy with his four children and wife who would have otherwise been a widow with orphans had it not been for the grace of God. When we visited him and told him we prayed for him, he continued and said “you saved my life”, “I told him Our Good Lord Jesus provided that grace for you, we all have to thank him for His Goodness”.

Since that visit, we have continued to support the two hospitals with medicines and other materials where possible.  We are also happy to state here that IAT recently supported Bai Burreh Memorial Community Hospital with a lifesaving Instrument like Colpo-scope (which according to Dr. Moses is the only one he knows of in Sierra Leone), medicines and consumables.

This assistance from IAT will certainly be a great blessing and will go a long way to help many who will turn up in that Hospital.

In our mission work, we had brought at least five ill patients who cannot afford to go to the hospital because of the bills to Dr. Moses and he has treated them well and allfor free.

During our visit, we prayed with both Christians and Muslims patients, read from the scriptures, told patients how Our Lord Jesus Christ healed the sick in the Gospels and we also offer counselling sessions to ill patients with HIV/AIDS and other terminal illnesses.

COMMUNITY PRAYER MEETINGS:

As a small Christian Community we meet on the IAT New Hope Village Mission Site on Fridays to pray and fast for our Ministry. We read from Scriptures and relate it to our current situation.  It has been very encouraging and supportive. This is also where we plan and evaluate our work. 

SUNDAY SERVICE:

This is the summit of all our work in the Mission. This is where we study the scriptures and where we celebrate and glorify Christ for all He has done for andthrough us.

WATER WELL CONSTRUCTION:

The first pick axe was struck for the search of water on 25th April 2011, on Easter Monday. This historic event was marked with prayers on Easter Sunday after the Resurrection Service of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

The work on the well started with some hiccups but we were able to address them immediately and the contractor and his team were able to go ahead with the job.  The contractor struck water at about 18 meters and sunk two more meters below the water table, which means there will be enough water throughout the year. We are very happy to share with you ”our extended family” that our long time problem with water is over. Our Well is acclaimed by many as a state of the art construction and with a professional finish.  The water is very good, and is lovely and cool. We are very thankful to Christ Our Lord and to IAT and forall the wonderful Donors who have made this Blessing of the Lord possible.

IMPACT OF OUR NEW WATER WELL:

When the well is completely installed with a hand or electric pump we shall certainly provide clean and safe drinking water for our children and staff in school and the local community.

There will be a reduction in the rate of water borne diseases like:

• Dysentery
• Worm infections
• Cholera
• Diarrhoea

In doing so IAT Sierra Leone is contributing tothe reduction of child mortality rate in Sierra Leone which is amongst the highest in the Sub-Region and the world with four in every ten children dying before the age of five years.  The well has relieved us from the water trouble and will hasten the building project. We previously had to buy water for the construction of the well and building too, but now we have an abundance of water for use inthe construction of the building.

NEW HOPE SCHOOL AND THE FEEDING PROJECT:

New Hope school has 238 regular children. The ages of these children are between 3 –10 years. The school has classes from preparatory One, Two, Three, to Classes One, Two, Three and Four.

The School under the new administration of IAT Sierra Leone recruited staff on a voluntary emergency basis, with a monthly allowance of Le.400,000(Four Hundred Thousand Leones), equivalent toabout £60 per month for Teaching Staff and Le. 200,000 (Two Hundred Thousand Leones), £30 for support staff.  This payment is very regular and timely. The staff contract runs from the period of January 2011 to July 2011 with August as a bonus month. There are six teachers and four support staff (two Cooks, a Care Giver and a Security) enrolled for this emergency period.

New Hope School is headed by Sister Alice M. Fofanah  who has struggled with a strong sense of faith and love to bringing New Hope School from 17 children to where it is today.

The rainy season in Sierra Leone is from May – October and most families in Sierra Leone strenuously survive on less than a dollar a day in normal times. This is even worse as the rainy season is the most difficult period for most rural communities.   During the rainy season or the “Hungry” season as it issometimes called, most farming homes are left with only seeds for planting which sadly are consumed in order to survive. During the dry season most families depend on subsistence farming and gardening, small scale fishing, petty trading or finding and cutting down the remaining shrubs by the edge of the village. 

Sadly, International Aid Trust New Hope School is the only School in the community that is providing meals for children coming to their school.  This picture opposite shows children from neighbouring schools begging from their younger siblings for food during lunch.

There are two cooks employed to cater for school meals.  The care giver (a lady of about 65yrs, and is like a grandmother to most of the children) is also employed to aid in the nursing and looking after the basic needs of the children in school. One of the major functions of the care giver is to look after the hygiene of the children after using the toilet and before eating.

Children are taught and supervised how to wash their hands properly with soap and water (as it is the tradition in most rural communities in Sierra Leone, for most people eat with their hands). To avoid the diseases, it is mandatory that children wash their hands with soap and water before eating their lunch in school.  This practice of washing hands is holding up in some of the homes, as some parents are sharing their experiences with us that children will complain, if they, the parents or a member of the family eats without washing their hands with soap and water. This is very interesting as the young children are themselves becoming teachers of what they are learning at school.

The children enjoy a good meal every day in school. The Head Mistress always makes sure the food is well prepared and served on time to all the children. The children are generally very happy in school and are very grateful for the school lunch provided for them. 

The attendance record at the school is very regular, the children hardly miss school except when really very sick. For some children the school lunch will be their only meal for the day.

Believe me brothers and sisters in Christ, some families in most rural communities in Sierra Leone, are living far below the poverty level and go days without cooking a meal, for our children this school meal is what most of them depend on for their survival and thereforecannot afford to stay out of school and miss it. The general outlook for the children is good and we can say, reasonably healthy.

The drinking water for the children is an essential and important aspect in the school. We always make sure that the children are provided with clean and safe drinking water. Now with the completion of our water well, it has become easy to provide water for the school.

We have approached Living Water International, an NGO providing hand pumps for schools, clinics and communities, who already have concrete wells.

The children find New Hope School a happy place to be in and to enjoy their childhood.

THE BUILDING PROJECT:

This was a dream of the Children and Staff of New Hope School and promised by IAT after seeing the desperate need for a school building. The need for a school became urgent when the children and staff of New Hope School were denied use of the old school building in December 2010, a building which remains closed and derelict up to this time of reporting.

Praise the Lord!!!!! This dream is becoming a reality.

This great project started on the 12th May 2011 with prayers and blessings from the Lord.  The Official Dedication Ceremony of the IAT Site was scheduled to take place sometime later in May/June.

The Building project is gradually becoming a reality, within the basement  floor  of this building, there will be a Dining Hall, four classrooms, a Head Teacher’s  Office, and the first floor will be  used as a chapel, orphanage, offices, music room, computer room, etc. The basement for the foundation is now finished and the walls of the basement floor have now reached first floor height.

We are happy to say that Our Good Lord has been working with us through this project even when things were difficult. 

Among the difficulties were:

• Inadequate water for construction. 
• Lack of trucks to convey goods and building materials to IAT site.
• High cost of building materials (as a result of the 30% increase in the cost of pump price of fuel)
• The rainy season has also been amajor hindrance.

The Foundation for the basement floor is now completed and the walls of the ground floor are now up to the 1st floor level. We continue to work and pray and look forward to the completion of this wonderful project. You can see pictures of the work done so far and in progress. 

GENERAL IMPACTS:

• The new idea of having a weekly service for the children and staff at New Hope School, on every Tuesdays at lunch time is yielding an unexpected   result.  The turnout on Sundays is beginning to increase.
• Pupils, staff and parents are in high spirits seeing the projects growing.
• The three Sick children IAT helped have fully recovered and are happily   re-united with the other children in school. The family of these children and their extended families are very thankful for the prayers and medical support offered by IAT.
• Praise the Lord!!! Some Muslim parents are themselves bringing and permitting their children to come to our prayer meetings and Sunday Service, Alleluia!!!!
• The new water well is a valued asset for the school, for this we are also very grateful to God and IAT as the construction of the water well has already been completed.
• The children seem to be generally happy in school despite our difficult physical situation in terms of accommodation and learning materials.

CHALLENGES:

• The prices of food stuff in the market continue to rocket sky high.  This is creating some logistical burden on the food supply and distribution.
• A good example is the price of rice, which at the time of preparing this feeding budget was Le. 111,000 for a 50kg of normal rice to Le.115, 000 to Le.150,000 in April, and now Le.160, 000. 
• The prices are even worse for oil, and fish which are very scarce in the market.
• At the time of this report, there has been 30% increase in the pump price of fuel; this will only exacerbate an already difficult situation.
• The rains are a huge challenge for all our activities; Pastoral work, School, Construction etc.
• Lack of adequate cooking, serving, eating, and drinking materials.  Our temporary thatched shelter, which we are currently using as a school can no longer hold the rains.
• Transport is a huge challenge for our ministry. A vehicle will be a big blessing for our pastoral work.  
• IAT – Sierra Leone is working within a predominantly (99%)  Muslim community. They have been very supportive and even gave us our first piece of land. Of course, there are huge challenges but we trust in the Lord for strength and grace so that we can bring His Love to all needy people.  
• Struggling to educate the authorities that project funds are meant only for the intended project.

FUTURE PLANS:

1. Construction of building in progress.
2. Looking forward to receiving the container and sorting out the gift items.
3. Dedication of the IAT Village site on the 12th June 2011 by Rev Jonathon Titus Williams, Chairman of Board IAT SL).
4. Fencing of IAT-Sierra Leone, New Hope village property.

You can read the full story on the Lancashire Evening Post website here, http://www.lep.co.uk/news/lep-business/bridal_gowns_for_fraction_of_price_1_3469136