This report marks a major milestone for the Shama Kids Child Development Center. As a result of your generous gift, the center launched its ministry to children nearly a year ago in La Libertad, El Salvador. Below is a letter from Pastor Mauricio Ernesto Solano Iglesias outlining some of the accomplishments at the center. Your partnership in launching this center has already begun to change the lives of the registered children, and your investment will continue to release children from poverty for many years to come.
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus,
We thank you infinitely for your valuable contribution to our student center. Through your support we have improved and equipped the the kitchen with new flooring, shelves, water filter and refrigerator. We also repaired areas in the computer center, bathrooms and classrooms. We were able to purchase computer equipment and a file cabinet for the center office. We are convinced that if it weren’t for your financial help, we would not have been possible to acquire it.
Also, we are very happy and grateful to God for witnessing around 64 boys and girls making first time professions of faith. A Bible study is being carried out in the discipleship meetings and we have children serving in our church as ushers, servers, cleaners and leading younger children groups. This has positive results in their homes, and their parents are also receiving twice a month Bible studies. This strengthens each one of them, making a difference in the personal behavior of each family member of children belonging to the Shama Kids Child Development Center. Families close to them and direct relatives who have observed positive change are beginning to request information and have also approached us so that their children can also belong to the center.
This attitude makes us feel that the presence of God in our children is greatly impacting not only on their families but also on the families around them. We have the testimony of a mother to whom I asked how she evaluates the interest that the church and Compassion shows for each of the benefited children, compared to some other institution that says protect the children. She answered me,
Pastor, I see it and I do not believe it … as if this was a dream what the CDI are doing for our children. It goes beyond what I could think and imagine.
It is our deep desire to reach the majority of the people of our community and its surroundings so that they truly know the love of our Lord Jesus Christ and have a true transformation in their lives through the testimony of our little children, who will be the future of our community and will mark a different generation full of love and fear of God.
When talking to some of the community’s residents, including local public school teachers, they say that their students who attend our project have a different behavior from the others. That makes us give the honor and glory to our Heavenly Father and commits us more to fulfill one hundred percent the mission and vision of this project.
Thank you on behalf of the family of Assembly of Christian Churches Jehovah Shamma and Shama Kids Child Development Center. We wish your lives remain blessed to continue blessing others.
Recent Activities at the Center