Ten Talents International Blog

2012 is quickly approaching, can you believe it? What is on your mind for the new year? Resolutions, changes, improvements, goals, dreams? What is the focus of those changes (self improvement, time with family, career)? Those are all good and important things, but I would like to encourage you to expand your scope, if you haven’t already. I just found a resource for helping with this & I wanted to share it with you.  Click here to check out Harvest Ministry’s Mission-Minded New Year’s Guide for 2012.  One thing our family likes to do each New Year’s Eve is to talk together about the good things God has done over the past year, and what we are wanting to see in the coming year.  I think this guide is going to be a great tool for focusing our conversations even further.

We pray you are able to look back and see the many blessings in your own life and allow God to ignite dreams within your own heart for where He is going to take you in the future.

God Bless You!

Lisa

Besides the giving idea mentioned in this post about rabbits, we would like to provide you more ideas of gifts you can give this Christmas that will spread blessings all around!  Is there someone on your gift list this year that would really appreciate a meaningful gift, not just more “stuff”?  What if you gave a gift to a child in Rwanda in honor of that person?  You are blessing them, and blessing the children of Rwanda, not to mention feeling blessed yourself to know that you’ve been a part of it!

Are you wondering what is on the wish list this year for the children in the Home of Innocence?

Bed sheets and bath towels. Yup, that is what they really need.  New bed sheets and bath towels.  Would you like to help give them a gift this Christmas?  One set of bed sheets costs $7, the cost for a bath towel is also $7.  You could give one, one of each, or many.  It would be nice to have 30 of each, so when it is washing day, there is another one he can use while it dries.  (No electric dryer- it has to air dry, which in the rainy season can sometimes mean a day or two.)

The other thing that is needed for the Home of Innocence is a few more mattresses for their beds.  We need to be able to add more boys into the home, and they shouldn’t have to share a small mattress!  One mattress costs $39.  Could you help us outfit a few more beds in the Home?

If you can give to these boys this Christmas, please go to our giving page.  You can select the “Where Needed Most” option and when you give your gift you can add a note that says, “bed sheets” or “towels” and if you would like us to notify the person you are giving in honor of please let us know that too.

Interested in giving towards something different?  Take a look around in our recently updated web pages where you can see information about developments going on for the Acres of Hope especially.

We pray you have a wonderful and peace filled Christmas season.  We will be hosting two different mission trip teams this month and we are going to be sharing the joy of Christmas with many children here in Rwanda thanks to these teams!

God Bless You,

Lisa