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House of Love Foundation

Missionary Ventures' co-workers in Indonesia are focusing on Christian Children’s Homes around the country.  They usually identify around 6 or 7 key Children in each home – all of them with the potential to become future Christian leaders.  Not only do these children have a short-term impact while in the children’s home itself, but they also have a long-term impact within their community after leaving the home.

Every year MV holds a 2 week Discipleship Camp with these targeted children, taking them out of the home and to a safe location where their co-workers and MV team members can really speak into their lives ... one on one.  The children learn about their identity in Christ as well as core Christian values such as honour, honesty and so on.

These unique opportunities are combined with tramping and other special outdoor activities to test the children physically as well as allowing more opportunity to speak into their lives spiritually.

But the Discipleship process doesn’t stop there.  Once back in their home environment, the children in turn speak into the lives of the other kids at the home.  There have been some great results.  Many of the children have received Christ and 3 have progressed to seminary already – but there is always the potential for many more to follow.

Missionary Ventures New Zealand is looking to recruit team members for trips in 2011 and raise support for this vital, ongoing ministry.

Discipleship Camps

Yayasan Pondok Kasih (the House of Love Foundation) is a dynamic Christian organisation based in East Java and reaches out to over 50 poor and marginalised communities in Indonesia's 2nd largest city.   Many of these communities have up to 300 people each and are situated in such places as under a motorway bridge, on garbage tips or even in a graveyard.  One community comprises displaced victims of a huge mud disaster through which thousands or homes and livelihoods were destroyed.

MV offices in Australia and NZ partner with Pondok Kasih to serve and assist them in this vital, growing ministry.  People from Muslim, Hindu and Christian background alike are offered skills, training and other assistance such as clean water and sanitation systems as a practical demonstration of God's love.

MVNZ is committing to assist the the Foundation’s water and sanitation projects where possible, by raising funds and involving consulting engineers with relevant experience on the field. Since these projects began in the early 2000s, the impact has been amazing, including:

- Surabaya & environs: over 760 systems

- Sumatra: over 200 systems - following the tsunami disaster

- Sulawesi: 5 moulds sent

- Central Java: over 1,385 systems for poor families

- Madura: over 100 systems

Your gift (any amount) will help provide safe, clean water for even more household or community - while opening the door for Community Health Education programmes as practical expressions of God's love.

MV offices in Australia and New Zealand are raising support and taking more teams in 2011 to help Pondok Kasih impact countless lives with God's love in East Java.

(State purpose as ‘Indonesia Water’)

Clean  Water  Project