Congratulations to college graduate Mercy! She now has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education. Her next step is to pass the board exam to receive her Teacher's Certification. That happens September 27. Between now and then she will be studying to pass the exam. She has requested our prayers.
Mercy never knew her father and grew up in her grandmother's home. It was a home of poverty and not an easy life, even to have food to eat every day. There were times it would have been easy to quit and try to find a job, but she stayed with it and won the prize -- a college degree!. She has been sponsored for several years and would not have been able to finish even high school if it were not for a sponsor. While in college, she has been active in church on the praise and worship team and helping minister to the younger children. It is a joy to think of people with her strong character and beliefs teaching the children coming up in the next generation of young Filipinos.
Here is a note from Mercy: "My success would not have been completed without your love, support and prayers. My warmest acknowledgement to the Fullness in Christ Ministry Family and especially to Ma'am Kathy Bohlin. Thank you for all the love you've given and the labors you have sown to my success. Our God saw your hearts of love, the prayers you've bestowed, the support for me financially, and your work for my success. You are in my heart and in my prayers, not just for the benefits that I've received, but because we have the love from God that connects us. Your labors are not in vain because God sees those works. God bless you more. May His love, peace and grace abound in your life." ---Mercy
God has blessed the vision of helping the poorest of the poor children in the Philippines to get an education. You can be part of changing a life. We are now working on the budget for the next school year which begins the first of June. We are asking God -- how many children this year? How many young lives like Mercy do you want to touch?
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Your help is needed to support the core of the ministry.
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Become A Child's Sponsor - $30 a month per child (only about $1 a day makes a big impact)
Give to Food for Learning -- Help feed hungry children in the Philippines. Any amount helps a lot.
Ministry to Children -- For special needs -- Any amount helps.
Caring for Orphans and Widows - Help care for orphans and widows in the Philippines.
If you prefer to send a check instead of giving online, make the check to "FCM," and send it to Fullness in Christ Ministries, PO Box 136117, Fort Worth, TX 76136. Attach a note letting us know your desire and that is how your gift will be used. You will be blessed.
NOTE: Please send checks or money orders in US dollars only -- no foreign currency please.
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Kathy Bohlin is Executive Vice President of FCM & Director of our missions in the Philippines. She works closely with local pastors who care for almost 900 FCM sponsored children in 24 locations on 4 islands. In the Philippines the children affectionately call her Ate (Ah tay) Kathy.