Current Projects we are Seeking Funding For:

• Clothing for Orphans and Children Where We Work (8% funded)
• ServLife Hope Fund – 1 of 40: Thingan, Nepal (65% funded)
• 2010 Training and Church Planting Fund: India (2% funded)
• 2010 Training and Church Planting Fund: Nepal (2% funded)
• Haiti Earthquake Victims (48% funded)

Thank you! Projects Funded:

• Send an Indian Mission Worker to be trained for $180
  (100% funded, Nov. 2009)
• New Testament Audio Players for Local Workers – Campaign 1
  (100% funded, Dec. 2009)
• ServLife 2009 Year-End Goal: Restoring Hope to Children and the Global Poor
  (100% funded, Jan. 2010)

*If you would like to go a step further and help raise money for the work of ServLife around the world, you can use a new tool we now have available online, to create and manage a team and pick a campaign to raise funds for.

(Contact Us if you need assistance or would like additional information.)

Over the past three years, ServLife has been building a relationship with a church in the Marondera area as they care for these children. Up until this point, they have been caring for the children almost single-handedly despite a devastating lack of resources and failed economy.

*There are sponsorship opportunities available to support these children in the Musha Wevana children’s home. There are currently 86 children in the home and 23 children are still in need of sponsorship.

For $30/month, your sponsorship will help supply food, clothes, schooling, and ensure that they are well cared for in a loving environment. This is a direct way you can get involved in bringing hope and empowering a new generation in Zimbabwe.

Sponsor a Child Today!

It’s hard to imagine living in a country with no religious freedoms. It’s even harder to imagine the foundation of that country based on Hindu beliefs and systems, with leaders who oppose and persecute Christians and their beliefs. Imagine, though, an opportunity to revisit and revise those original documents that have barred the Gospel from reaching the people’s hearts for so many years. Nepal, a country that has operated on traditional Hinduism for years, is meeting to create a new constitution. All twenty-five political parties are involved, as well as a new and somewhat surprising committee founded three years ago.

“The Christian Advisory Committee to the New Constitution” was formed to represent the Christian population in Nepal. Their goal is to incorporate Christian-based laws and rights into the new constitution.

Lazarus Thulung, Director of ServLife’s new registered organization in the nation, ServLife Himalaya Development, is an active member who has been building relationships with political leaders re-writing the constitution, including the Prime Minister of Nepal.

“The Christian Advisory Committee to the New Constitution submitted our agenda with our President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav (see photo top left),” said Thulung. “Our committee also went to meet with the prime minister and the other 25 offices of the political parties involved in creating the new constitution.”

The Committee also hosted a tea party, connecting with over forty members of the government who are in charge of revising the constitution. The Prime Minister has already promised to provide Christians with certain rights, one being as simple as graveyards, a right not previously afforded to believers. The foundations of this country are slowly being changed.

One huge step in this process occurred in one of the constitution meetings. Philemon Chhetri, a man in ministry with New Life Mission, had the rare and incredible opportunity to distribute four gospel tracts to leaders present at the meeting, including the President of Nepal. These members were also invited to and attended a Christmas celebration, where they watched as Nepalese believers worshipped and praised the Lord for the birth of His son. The Committee has been able to advocate on behalf of the sick in a recent epidemic, and has persuaded a new “Prime Minister Relief Fund” for emergencies. The Nepalese government is not only acknowledging Christian leaders, but is giving them rights and freedoms, and responding to their requests. God is faithful. He has brought the Christians in Nepal hope.

Udaya Bhatta, Director of ServLife’s Children Home in Nepal and director of another ServLife birthed organization, AS Nepal, said, “Here many people usually do not like Christians but little by little people are getting influenced from the way that Christians’ are living their life…It was a different thing seven or eight years ago as I suffered a lot, but now it’s quite nice.”

The years of seemingly fruitless toil, the persecution, the martyrs, the pain are now bearing fruit. Jesus said in John 13:35, “By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.” Penetrating secular countries often seems impossible, leaving missionaries and native Christians feeling defeated. Many times, all they can do is live a life of service and love in hopes that the people will see the life of Jesus in them. The return for their hard work is often unseen and unnoticed by outsiders. And then, all of a sudden, lives are changed, nations are affected, and the Gospel is spread.

(Source: ServLife News by Sarah Buckner)

(Posted: March 1, 2010)

ServLife has been working in southern Thailand since the Tsunami hit in Dec. 2004, view images of our work there. In our efforts to help these victims have an opportunity to live life with a sense of dignity and have the means to provide for their basic needs, ServLife began the Hope Fund in Thailand to give out small loans to unemployed and under-employed people in the region.

A management committee, comprised of members of the local church and the community, was then created in 2006 to manage the Hope Fund in Thailand. Ownership of the fund has since been handed over and has been run by the Thai people in the community.

When the earthquakes hit Haiti, the believers in southern Thailand mourned and could relate with the devastation the people of Haiti were experiencing. Sujit, one of the local pastors on the Hope Fund committee in Thailand, decided to respond by joining with four local Thai churches to raise and donate $550 to ServLife’s work in Haiti. Read Sujit’s message to ServLife below:

“We, in Thailand, after hearing about the earthquake in Haiti, were very sorrowful. As Christians, we knew we should do something for the people in Haiti and not only praying. So I told our brothers in the church and 4 other churches in the area that we need to come together and help. Although we are small churches, we believe that many drops of rains make the seas. We are glad to be a small part in joining others that are helping in Haiti. Because we know you, Servlife, and have seen many things you have done with us in Thailand when the tsunami came, we are glad to join with you in this time. We always pray for you. God bless, Sujit. (Hope of Phuket Church)

Give to Our Work in Haiti Today

(Posted: 2010-02-19)

You may have seen our dreamofjustice.net site.

Dream of Justice is a web site and not a separate organization but a way to draw people, educate people, and stir people to action with ServLife and our efforts to address 3 major problems in the world:

• Spiritual Darkness:  Our Response- Training indigenous mission workers to start churches
• Children at risk:   Our Response- Orphanages and education sponsorship of children in the communities where we are starting churches
• Hunger & Poverty:  Our Response- ServLife Hope Fund micro-loans

I want to give you 4 practical suggestions and would love to hear back from you on what you can do NOW!  We would love and need your help!

1. Pray- You can do this naturally but we do create monthly calendars for you to use and help guide your praying.   Download our monthly prayer calendars.
2. Request 2 or 3 or more child packets of children who need sponsors.  We currently have over 100 children in need of sponsors. Set up a table at your small group, work, church, or school and ask people to sponsor these kids.  We will be happy to mail you  a few packets and only ask if you could send them back to us if a sponsor is not found – email  april@servlife.org  to get some packets.
3. Create a fund raiser through our new online module. Here is a sample page we can create for you, learn more.
4. Become a Dream of Justice Advocate- This is just a way to stay connected and get updates on how to advocate and help share the work of ServLife, click here to sign up.

Thank you for desiring to be a voice for those who have no voice!

“Kids almost innately care about injustice and brokenness in our world,” she says. “So showing them the nature and constructs of genocide is just part of the story. My hope is that their understanding and senses of justice will lead to action – getting involved, finding the things that they can do to help end human atrocities – and then doing them.”

Here’s a look at the back cover/summary of I Learned a New Word Today…Genocide:

“The word for what we’ve studied these past few weeks, boys and girls, is genocide.” I watched Mr. Steinberg turn from the chalkboard to face our social studies class. He looked sort of strange, like he was sad or something. “And if you want to help end it…if you want peace and protection for all people…you have to get involved and do the thing that you can do.”

Javier Mendoza has learned a new word and he doesn’t like it. But as his fifth grade class explores the shocking history in countries ranging from Armenia to Sudan, Javier realizes that the past – and even the present – is telling him a story that he can’t ignore. Then he overhears a conversation that triggers a mysterious chain of events at his school. Now Javier is faced with the reality that no one is immune to the consequences of genocide. And perhaps everyone has a responsibility to help end it…even Javier himself.

For more information on I Learned a New Word Today…Genocide and Hankins’ other work, check out: www.elizbethhankins.com

Looking at the big picture can be overwhelming. Hundreds of thousands of people dead. Approximately 300,000 injured. A million homeless. Mass graves. Looters. People desperate for a roof over their heads and some food. How do we even begin to make a difference in the wake of such a tragedy as the earthquake in Haiti? It seems nearly impossible to even scratch the surface of their needs when looking at them as a whole. But these are individual people. These are children who need parents, parents who need food, friends who need medical care. These are people who need us to reach out our hand and help them, one by one.

ServLife set out to do just this, sending a team of six doctors, five nurses, and a coordinator to the capital city of Port-au-Prince on January 28. The team worked at a temporary hospital set up by Mission Haiti that was one of two in the area, attempting to serve and treat the 200,000 people that are currently residing there. Gideon Tsang, the ServLife volunteer and team leader and Pastor of Vox Veniae church in Austin, TX said that this hospital was one of the best in the area – organized and well-staffed by health-care professionals from around the world who, when they left, equipped a team of Haitian doctors and nurses to keep the facilities running.

ServLife provided 1500 pounds ($260,000 of value) of medical supplies which came just in time, according to Tsang. He said, “Every morning we awoke to a line of hundreds waiting to be seen. The supplies were practical and a good fit for the needs of the Haitian community. The hospital could not have sustained the rush with their existing pharmaceutical supplies.” One by one, the team of doctors and nurses reached out to the community to meet needs. An area populated by approximately 200,000 is an overwhelming task, but when the day is done, and the ServLife team has seen a few hundred patients, and wakes up the next day to see a few hundred more, the impact is great.

Haitian lives were destroyed in an instant with the impact of the earthquake. Little by litte, that impact is being lessened as teams go down to serve and meet needs. ServLife had the incredible opportunity to meet tangible needs and make a difference in the lives of the Haitians. Even so, there are so many more needs to be met, and so many more people to be reached there. It’s an enormous task, but one that will be accomplished by faithfully helping and giving. One by one, every single life that was affected by the earthquake can be changed.

Joel Vestal reflects, “Responding to Haiti can seem like taking a drink of water out of a fire hose but we must continue to pray, act, give, and go as we are able. Please pray as we continue to see how ServLife will best be helpful to the people in Haiti.”

Click here to see our goal and give

(Source: ServLife News by Sarah Buckner)

(Posted: Feb. 15, 2010)

The Evangelical Fellowship of India is deeply concerned for the victims of communal violence in Kandhamal, Orissa. Many villages continue to remain tense and sensitive to violence, evident from the recent outburst of protests in both Bhubaneswar and Kandhamal, in the wake of the visits of the delegation of European Union to the region. In one incident in Kandhamal, Orissa, stones where pelted at a Christian house in Badimunda village under the Tikabali Police on February 2, 2010 to protest against the visit of the EU delegation.

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(Posted: February 10, 2010)

The Maclellan Foundation recently donated 120 New Testament audio players that will be given to ServLife Workers in India and Nepal and will be a tool equip and help them to share the Gospel in their communities and villages.

ServLife launched a campaign in October 2009, to provide each of the local mission workers that have been trained through our Leadership Training Institutes in India and Nepal with one of these audio devices, and with the help of the Maclellan Foundation, we were able to reach this first goal.

With these audio players being such an effective tool to help share the Gospel in remote, underdeveloped regions, we have launched a second campaign to supply 50 more of these audio devices to local believers in the communities we serve.

Will you consider purchasing one of these audio players to help equip one of these believers to help share the Gospel in their community? They are $100 per player.

Give Towards this Campaign Today!

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The ServLife team being sent into Port-au-Prince, Haiti (consisting of six doctors, five nurses and a coordinator) leaves from Florida on January 28. They will be working at a temporary hospital that has been set up through an organization that has been on the ground in Haiti for 25 years.

The team will be there for seven days and will bring with them the first wave of medicine (1200 pounds with a value of $260,000) There are 200,000 people in the area the team will be based, with only one other hospital providing care in the region. The team will be performing surgeries and conducting postoperative care, and the Jamaican military has offered 24-hour security for their safety and protection.

Pray for strength, wisdom, and safety. Updates and prayer requests will be posted as they are received from the team.

Give now to our Haiti Relief

(Posted: January 28, 2010)

If you cannot make a donation through our online donation page, please use the following information below to wire funds. For security purposes, please contact us, call our office at 317-544-0484 or email: kelly@servlife.org, for our account number before you wire funds.

Wire Transfer Instructions – International

Bank of America, N.A.
100 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001
ABA #026009593
SWIFT Code: BOFAUS3N
For Credit to: Merrill Lynch
Account #6550113516
For Further Credit to: ServLife International, Inc.
Acct #: (For the account number, please contact us, call our office at 317-544-0484, or email: kelly@servlife.org)

Give now to our Haiti Relief

(Posted: January 28, 2010)

• Give to help us meet our goal
• Create your own team and set a goal to raise a certain amount

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View our $100,000 Goal for Haiti and Help

Med Packs are a part of our $100,000 goal for Haiti!  Read more and help today

INVENTORY:

Antibiotics

• Amoxicillin 125mg/5ml & Clavulanate 31.25mg/5ml, Augmentin Powder for Suspension

100ml BT quantity:12 11/30/2010

• Amoxicillin 250mg/Clavulanate 125mg, Augmentin 30tab BT quantity: 6 3/31/2011

• Cefdinir 250mg/5ml, powder for reconstitution, Oral Suspension, Strawberry Flavor,

• Omnicef 100ml BT quantity:12 5/1/2010

• Cefuroxime Axetil 125mg/5ml Oral Suspension, Ceftin 100ml BT quantity:6 1/31/2011

• Clarithromycin 250mg , Biaxin Film Tab 250mg 60tab BT quantity: 2 7/17/2011

Antihistamines

• Brompheniramine Maleate 1mg, Dextromethorphan 5mg, Phenylephrine 2.5mg,

• Dimetapp Cough & Cold, Grape Flavor 118ml BT quantity: quantity:3 9/30/2011

• Loratadine 5mg/5ml Oral Solution, Children’s Claritin, 2years and older, Grape Flavored

• 120ml BT quantity:6 7/31/2010

• Loratadine 10mg, Claritin Reditabs 30tab BX quantity: 12 6/30/2010

• Loratadine 10mg, Claritin, Non-Drowsy Liqui-Gels 24 Hour 24cap BX quantity:12 10/31/2010

Analgesic and Antipyretic

• Acetaminophen 325mg/Dextromethorphan HBr 10mg/Guaifenesin 200mg/Phenylephrine

• HCI 5mg, Tylenol Cold Head Congestion, Daytime 50 x 2caplets BX quantity:2 7/31/2010

• Acetaminophen 325mg/Phenylephrine HCI 5mg, Tylenol Sinus Congestion & Pain,

• Severe 50 x 2caplet BX quantity: quantity: 2 7/31/2010

• Acetaminophen 500mg, Tylenol Rapid Release Gels 24gel cap BT quantity:12 9/30/2010

• Acetaminophen 650mg , Tylenol Arthritis Pain 290cap BT quantity:2 2/28/2011

• Ibuprofen 50mg/1.25ml, Infant’s Advil Concentrated Drops 15ml BT quantity: 6 12/31/2011

• Ibuprofen 200mg, Advil 200mg 100tab BT quantity: 6 5/31/2012

• Anti-infectives Butenafine Hydrochloride 1% Antifungal Cream, Lotrimin Ultra 24gm TB quantity:6 3/31/2012

• Clotrimazole 1% Anti-Fungal Cream , Lotrimin AF 1% Cream 30gm TB quantity: 6 1/31/2011

• Clotrimazole 1%/Betamethasone Dipropionate 0.05%, Lotrisone Cream 45gm TB quantity:6 9/30/2010

• Clotrimazole 50mg (1%), Gyne-Lotrimin 7 Day Treatment, w/Applicator 45gm TB quantity: 3 5/31/2011

• Tolnaftate 1%, Tinactin AF Cream 30gm TB quantity: 12 4/30/2011

Antitussives

• Acetaminophen 325mg/Chlorpheniramine 2mg/Dextromethorphan Hbr

• 10mg/Phenylephrine HCI 5mg, Tylenol Cold Multi-Symptom Day & Night Formulas

• 24caplets BX quantity:6 10/31/2010

• Acetaminophen 325mg/Chlorpheniramine Maleate 2mg/Dextromethorphan

• 10mg/Phenylephrine 5mg, Tylenol Cold Head Congestion Daytime & Nightime 72cap BX quantity:6 10/31/2010

• Dextromethorphan 15mg, Robitussin Cough Gels 20cap BT quantity:6 10/31/2011

• Phenylephrine Hydrochloride 2.5mg, Children’s Sudafed PE Nasal Congestion 118ml BT quantity: 4 9/30/2010

Expectorants

• Acetaminophen 500mg/5ml, Dexomethorphan HBr 15mg/5ml, Doxylamine 6.25mg/5ml,

• Coricidin HBP 296ml BT quantity:3 7/31/2010

• Anti-inflammatory Mometasone Furoate 0.1% /Topical Use, Elocon Ointment 0.1% 15gm TB quantity: 12 10/31/2010

• Montelukast Sodium 5mg, Singulair, Chewable 30tab BT quantity:12 1/31/2011

• Antacids and Adsorbents Rolaids Extra Strength, Tropical Punch, Chewable 100ea BT quantity: 6 8/31/2010

• GI Medications Famotidine 20mg, Pepcid 20mg 100tab BT quantity: 8 7/31/2010

• Famotidine 40mg, Pepcid 40mg 100tab BT quantity: 4 7/31/2010

• Miscellaneous Vitamin A & D Ointment 42.5gm TB quantity: 6 N/A

• Multivitamin Preparations Multivitamins, Centrum Kids Chewable 60tab BT quantity: 6 9/30/2011

• Multivitamin/Mineral, Centrum Advanced High Potency 130tab PK 6 4/30/2011Multi-Vitamins + Iron 1000ea BT 1 12/31/2011

• Quinolones Norfloxacin 400mg, Noroxin 20tab BT quantity: 12 7/31/2010

• Adrenals Prednisone 10mg 100tab BX quantity: 10 6/30/2010

• Supplies Bandage, Ace Elastic 6″, Antimicrobial 1ea BX 3 N/A

• Bandages, Nexcare Tattoo Waterproof, 1 1/16′ X 2 1/4″ 20ea BX quantity: 6 N/A

quantity:

• Replacement Preparations Calcium Carbonate 600mg with Vitamin D, Caltrate 600+D 120tab BT quantity: 3 3/31/2011

• Oral Rehydration Salts 1scht EA quantity:25

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 Our Strategy for Relief and Response to Haiti Earthquake: January 14, 2010

 The Earthquake in Haiti

On Tuesday, January 12, an earthquake measuring a 7.0 magnitude struck Haiti near its capital city of Port-au-Prince. The damage to this country is extensive and the number of injured or dead is estimated to be in the thousands, perhaps the hundreds of thousands.

ServLife International is part of an on the ground network that is bringing emergency supplies to survivors of this catastrophe.

ServLife – Sixteen Years Experience in Relief and Development Partnerships

ServLife has a proven history of global response to both natural and man-made disasters via relief, development and partnership efforts. Our philosophy is to proceed where God opens doors. We believe in maximizing efforts and community by collaborating with other groups/teams and creating partnerships.

Here’s a brief look at our history:

1. ServLife founder and president, Joel Vestal, and his family lived in southern Thailand when the catastrophic tsunami of December 2004 struck. ServLife was one of the first response operations, providing support to local, indigenous Christians in the distribution of aid and homebuilding. ServLife also purchased a building for a church impacted by the tsunami and instituted micro-financing opportunities for the civilian population. (Total amount invested: $150,000.00)

2. During this same devastation, ServLife vice president Ty Denney led relief teams and efforts in Bande Ache, Indonesia. He oversaw the delivering of medical and food aid and coordinated surgical team efforts.

3. ServLife facilitated distribution of approximately $2,000.00 to victims of a former Haitian earthquake.

4. In 1996, Joel and a ServLife team hand-delivered $250,000 worth of medicine to relieve civilians in government oppressed Baghdad, Iraq.

5. ServLife collected approximately $250,000.00 aid for other tragedies in Pakistan, India and Nepal.

ServLife – Our Strategy is Working Through and With Local Christians and Churches. In keeping with our commitment to collaboration and partnership, ServLife always determines what other organizations – whether churches or mission agencies – have capacity to receive donations and implement aid. In Haiti, we have secured an extensive network of relationships/contacts with 12 groups (missions, churches and other organizations).

We Offer a Three-Tiered Response Approach

ServLife is committed to a holistic approach in helping heal the world. With this in mind, our efforts are designed to meet the emotional, physical, mental and spiritual needs of those impacted.

In Haiti, our implementation of this commitment will look like:

1. Encouraging ServLife’s constituency to donate or fundraise among their groups for Haiti Our capacity of impact is determined by the funds we can help distribute to local, indigenous groups who may lack international contacts or access to government or large-scale aid. Rather than recruiting and dispatching specialized personnel, ServLife most often works through funds offered via the organization’s supporters. We believe disaster response should be strategic and streamlined; aid in the form of extraneous, though well-intended, human resources, can severely strain local initiatives and impede productivity.

2. Assessing and researching ServLife will partner with at least five, and no more than ten groups, churches and Christian organizations to help provide monetary and personnel support for rebuilding efforts. Following an information-gathering trip (possibly multiple), phone conversations and other correspondence, we’ll begin working with teams who share our commitment to Christ and proven abilities in post-disaster rebuilding. Shared worldviews and integrity is imperative as community rebuilding is a ten to twenty year-long process that offers critical new foundations for a society. It’s our aim that these Christ-centered initiatives will promote lasting hope and healing for future generations.

3. Prioritizing our response initiatives and seeking partnerships in the following areas:

a. Groups working with children and teams offering post-traumatic counseling for children who have lost a family member.

b. Groups supporting immediate living needs – Working with local churches that are often neglected by larger aid groups, ServLife determines how to provide resources for community distribution. For example, practical post-earthquake items might include large numbers of hygienic supplies, basic kitchen utensils, medical equipment and first aid supplies and other essential materials that may have lost during the earthquake. Again, our capacity to deliver is contingent upon donor support.

c. Local church assistance in building/reconstruction efforts and distribution of supplies, Bibles, etc.

d. Micro-financing – As funds allow, we establish a ServLife Hope Fund that provides micro-financing opportunities to the local community. This is implemented at least six months post-disaster as initial remediation response is complex and time-consuming.

PLEASE NOTE: ServLife may support teams with specific expertise in providing relief services. These possible teams include:

• Trauma counseling

• Medical personnel

• Clean-up and reconstruction builders (as opportunities present)

ServLife Financial Goal: $100,000.00

Meeting this goal of $100,000.00 enables ServLife to generously respond to the devastation in Haiti. We ask that you pray and ask God how you can help.

ServLife will follow the same pattern in Haiti as it has undertaken for sixteen years; we will work with and through the grass-roots efforts of indigenous Christians.

Please join us in praying for the children and families devastated by the earthquake in Haiti. And please send a generous gift to help them today.

We have immediate opportunity to get medical Packs.

Cost: $500 each. They are of $13,000 value of medical equipment and medicines. We have a goal of providing 25 packs to our medical contacts on the ground in Haiti.

*You can give online or mail your donations to the ServLife office at:

ServLife International

PO Box 20596

Indianapolis, IN 46220 USA

(Please mark “Haiti” on your donation)

Read More about our $100,000 Goal

We are accepting donations that will be used for direct aid for victims of this horrific catastrophe. Thousands have been impacted and the death toll is not known. On January 12, 2010, at 4:53 p.m. EST, the worst earthquake to hit Haiti in over 200 years, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale hit the country. The epicenter of the quake was just off the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, sparking a tsunami watch for parts of the Caribbean, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Widespread damage has been reported from the quake, with many buildings near the capital collapsing due to poor structural design. The capital city was largely destroyed. Haiti has a population of over 10 million people. The average income is approximately $1,300, being the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere.

*You can give online or mail your donations to the ServLife office at:

ServLife International
PO Box 20596
Indianapolis, IN 46220 USA

(Please mark “Haiti” on your donation)

(Image source: www.msnbc.msn.com)

We believe God intends for His church to multiply. With this in mind, ServLife provides financial support to church planters and leaders who are trained for one year.

Consider giving to the Training Leaders and Church Planters Fund today!

Anil Shahi was born into a Newari family that was very religious and worshipped Idols and goddesses. His father had epilepsy and became mentally unstable. After a year his younger brother also became mentally unstable. That brought terrible fear to Anil because he was worried he would become the same way.

His family sold all their possessions and property to buy medication for their father and younger brother, but it did not help. In 2001, his friend brought him to a Church; it was his first time at a church. The songs and sermon touched his heart and in 2002 he received Christ. He began to pray for his father and younger Brother and there were tremendous changes within a month. His mother was impressed and began to go to church.

Now, his father and brother are well and other relatives have come to the Lord. He graduated from the ServLife Leadership Training Institute in Nepal in May 2008 and planted Hossanna Church in the Sindhupaalchowk district of Nanglebarai in Central Nepal.

Anil Shares a Testimony from his Ministry

“18 month ago, I decided to start a ministry in Sankhu. I was looking for a room to live and found a house in Ittakhel village. While living in that house, I came to know a young man who was 18 years old and living with his grandparents. His name was Rupesh Kunwar and they are from Bhahmin Hindu family. Due to his paren’ts work, Rupesh’s parents were living in different city. As time passed, I started to notice Rupesh was not doing well and was very disruptive in the community.

I wanted to know about Rupesh, and I asked his relatives and people in the community about him. I came to know that he has been sick for a few years. His family members believed that Rupesh was made sick by the Mantra (chanting words of the witch doctors). They had visited different witch doctors but they could not help.

After hearing his story, God put a burden in my heart for Rupesh. I looked for the opportunity to meet with him, and when that opportunity came, I shared the Gospel with him. It helped us to build our relationship and he started to come to my room regularly for prayer. I started to pray for him every day and he started to open up. After hearing about his life firsthand, I found he was experiencing much pain and was going through a lot of personal problems. He could not sleep at the night and he tried to play music at night to help him sleep. In the middle of the night he would wake up and see different kinds of figures and appearances of demon spirits. He has written many words on his wall which we do not know and cannot read. He has cut his hands several times and they were full of scars and wounds.

God met him in his painful situation. After our meeting his life was totally transformed and his family and community have been amazed by his new life. He is now a living witness for his friends and was recently baptized. Because of his testimony, his other two brothers came to Christ. I thank God for this work He has done in Rupesh and his family.

Prayer Requests:

• For Anil’s church in Sankhu that he started almost two years ago
• Anil desires to plant two more churches by next year. Pray for God’s leading in this.

(Posted: Jan.8, 2010)

We always work to create relationships with the local church and community so that those who receive the loans know that the local church, no matter how small, is concerned for the community. We believe this opens doors and builds trust for sharing faith and relationship.

The following report is from a village in Nepal where a Hope Fund was started:

“Hope Fund loans not only help people get started from the ground up, but also helps those who are coming from behind. Mina comes from the Magar ethnic group, the most common group in this area of the Himalayan foothills. Being from this group in no way translates affluence.

Mina has a child and was married until her husband left her for another woman, leaving her to raise a child in the home of her parents. In Nepal, Mina’s situation is not pitied or shown sympathy, but rather looked down upon.

Mina was interested in getting a loan to start up her goat farm. The local committee saw her situation and selected her as one of the most-needy applicants. Mina was thankful that she qualified to receive the Hope Fund micro loan and now has hope to support her child and begin to change her unfortunate circumstances.

We have 42 targeted villages where we have workers, and a Hope Fund can be started in one of these villages for as little as $5,000. Over a 5 year period, a single Hope Fund in a village will help over 500 individuals living in poverty and suffering from hunger.

Please consider giving to the Hope Fund today and help start a Hope Fund in one of these villages.

1. Training Indigenous Leaders to share Christ and start churches

2. Rescuing and Caring for Children at Risk through orphanages and sponsorships

3. Starting Small businesses among the poor

Would you please consider making a donation to ServLife International and our continued vision to help restore hope to children and the global poor and grow our work around the world? Your donation, no matter what size, will help continue to support our ongoing programs and help us expand to reach more people.

With over 125 staff members scattered around the globe and a growing support team here in Indianapolis, we are very encouraged with our impact despite the economic recession and numerous global crises in the world.

Click here to see our progress and learn more

Make a gift and we will send a beautiful Nepali card handmade with Lokta paper to the person you want to honor this Christmas holiday!

Did you know that the average person spends $700 around Christmas? Looking for something different? Give a Christmas gift that will change lives around the world! This holiday season consider giving a gift below to the work of ServLife in honor of your family or friends. We will send a greeting card handmade in Nepal to the person you would like to honor to let them know that you have given a special gift in their name. Let us help you do your Christmas shopping this year.

Here are ways your gift can make a difference:

Gift #1: Care for a Child at Risk – $10, $20, or $30 $30 can help feed and educate a child for one month. ServLife works with children who are at risk of being victims of poverty, child labor, or sex trafficking.

Gift #2: Local Mission Worker – $50 $50 will help support an indigenous mission worker/church planter for one month. ServLife has trained over 100 workers through our training centers in India and Nepal. These workers go back to their villages to share Jesus and work to establish a church.

Gift #3 ServLife Hope Fund – $100 ServLife engages in small business development through the ServLife Hope Fund. The average loan given out to help someone escape the cycle of poverty is approximately $250 in the regions we serve. $100 would help toward the cost of a single business loan that would empower someone and their family for a better future.

Giving a gift of meaning is simple:

1. Make a donation to ServLife International online or by mailing a check to our office. If you mail a check, please indicate in the memo section ServLife Christmas Campaign.(When making an online donation please choose “ServLife Gift Giving Project” on the fund drop-down menu. Indicate which project you would like to designate for your gift in the comments box.)
2. Give us the name and address of who you want to honor. Please make one gift per person.
3. We will send the following to the person you are honoring this holiday: A handmade card from Nepal made from unique paper with your name and the project you gave towards (we will not include the amount). We will also include a ServLife book mark / prayer card.

Click here to give a gift to ServLife’s Christmas Gift Campaign and honor somenone with a gift that will make an impact for Christ!

We are accepting monetary donations to help provide much needed winter clothing for children in Nepal and India that ServLife is caring for. This includes kids in our children’s homes and other children in the community that ServLife workers minister to.

Here is what your donation could do:

• $25 will buy a winter coat for one child

• $10 will buy a pair of pants or a warm top

• $5 will buy a pair of mittens or a hat

• $1 will buy a pair of socks

Each of these items are desperately needed. Please consider helping to give these wonderful children and warm and happy holiday season!

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To help facilitate the letter writing process, we now have an online form that can be used to submit your letters to your sponsor child electronically and ServLife will print and send them.

How it works:

• Go to the Write to your Sponsor Child page
• Complete the form and either type or copy/paste your letter from an outside application
• Submit your letter
• We then print your letter on customized stationary and send it to your sponsor child

*If you prefer to email your letter, electronic versions of the letter can now be sent to: writesponsorchild@servlife.org. Be sure to include your name, address, contact information, and your sponsor child’s name and country. The letters will be printed and sent to your sponsor child in the same way mentioned above.

*Letters can still be mailed to the ServLife office at:

PO Box 20596
Indianapolis, IN 46220
USA

(Please contact us online or call our offices at: 317-544-0484 if you have questions or need additional assistance)

(Posted: Nov. 5, 2009)

Consider purchasing one of these calendars as proceeds from the sale of this calendar go directly toward supporting ServLife’s ongoing work around the world. (Calendars are $10 each)

Purchase one through the ServLife Store today!

Here are the various ways you can get involved:

Here is How it Works (please read):

*As mentioned above, if you wish to make a one-time donation to a campaign, you do not need to register to make a donation. You just click on the desired campaign above, and click the “Make a Donation” link. You can choose to “sponsor” a team/individual if you were directed to the page by a team member or you can make a donation without sponsoring a team or individual.

*If you would like to go a step further and create a fundraising team, follow these steps:

1. The first step is to register. Click on the link for the desired campaign above, then click the ” Register” link. You will need to create a new account. The next page asks you to fill in your Name, Email, a Password, a Security Question and Answer, and contact information. The next page asks you to fill in your fundraising goal for the fundraiser.

2. Next, you can choose to:

• Register and not join a team
• Register and create a team – By creating a team you can invite family and friends to view your fundraising page and join you in supporting ServLife! (If you choose to create a team, the next page you will see allows you to enter the team’s name and fundraising goal, and set a password on the team if you’d like to control who can join the team.)
• Register and join an existing team – (If you choose to join an existing team, you can search for that team using the search box provided. If you choose to join a team, the next page you will see shows the names and team captain who are already registered on that team to help you determine if you have chosen the right team. If the team is a private team, you will be prompted to enter the team password on this page. )

3. The final page of the registration process displays a summary of all of the data that you have has entered so far. If the data looks correct, you can click “Next” to process the registration. Once the registration process has been completed, you can log into the fundraiser site at anytime to edit your personal fundraiser page!

*If you would like to create a fundraising team and want additional information, download the How the Fundraiser Site Works document.

(If you have questions or need additional assistance, please contact us online or call our office at: 317-544-0484)

The audio player contains the following features:

•An installed microchip contains Scriptures in the heart language; the chip will not erase or wear out from frequent playing.

•The battery will play for 15 hours and can be recharged enough times to play the entire New Testament more than 1,000 times.

•Has a built-in generator and solar panel to charge the battery

•The solar panel, in addition to charging the battery, will run the player even without battery power as long as there is sunlight.

•The sound is digital quality and loud enough to be heard clearly by groups as large as 300.

Will you help buy one? They are only $100. Check out the video link below to learn more and see the audio player in use.

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Trends in Philanthropy/Stewardship  for Christians in the west relating to the growth of the church and the future of global mission & Aid

Richard L. Klopp, M.A., is Associate Director of the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, and former Lead Pastor of the Communauté Chrétienne Des Deux Rives, a French protestant congregation in Québec City, Canada.

Born to missionary parents in Beech Grove, Indiana Richard grew up in Mali, West Africa and then moved to Canada with his parents after returning from Africa in 1981. He is a graduate of Laval University, Québec City, Canada. He is currently a candidate for the PhD in Philanthropic Studies at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis, and teaches subjects related to the management of philanthropic organizations.

Prior to his work with the Lake Institute, Richard worked in nonprofit management as the Executive Director of the H2O Africa Foundation. Co-founded by Matt Damon, this multi-million dollar initiative grew out of the Running The Sahara expedition and film project and has brought clean water to communities all across Africa. Richard has also been the Executive Director of The Biotechnology for Sustainable Development in Africa Foundation, a Canadian organization which trains and coordinates medicinal plant agri-business entrepreneurs in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also serves on the boards of C.A.I.S.S. (Centre Aide Immigration et Services Sociales), The Institute for Christian Thought, the Hoosier Muslim Call for Social Justice, the Boone County Senior Services Foundation, and the Heartland Fellows Initiative.

Come join us on Thursday, October 29 from 12-1:00 at the ServLife office in Indianapolis.

2511 East 46th Street – Suite E-2 (Corner of Keystone & 46th)

Indianapolis, IN 46205

(Please RSVP using one of the following: Submit online, send an email to: april@servlife.org, or call our office at 317.544.0484)

*A $6 per person donation is suggested for the meal. RSVPs are required in order to eat.   The food will be Indian and we conclude the lunch at 1 pm.

(Posted: 2009-10-12)

Lalan Yadav was recently beaten by three men and harassed by a mob of twenty-five. Why? He would not abandon his faith to please the people and the religious traditions of his country.

Yadav is forty-five, working as a driver with ServLife in India, helping the Children’s Home there. When he started working ServLife, he was a practicing Hindu and came from a strong Hindu family. Over the years he has been working with ServLife, he has slowly been drawn closer to Christ, as he has witnessed faith in action through the work ServLife is doing there.

Lalan decided to respond to the growing faith in his heart and his actions stood out amongst his family and community when he refused to participate in Durga Hindu festival, sparking the interest of the mob that beat him. Not only is this a man who is questioning his traditions and continuing to work for and associate himself with people following Jesus, but he is willing to stand up against those traditions as an example to his family and his Christian friends. He was a witness to his four children and family members and showed them what faith in action looks like.

Yadav suffered the consequence of his choice – cuts and bruises, easily treated at the local clinic. His choice was worth it, though. The eternal reward is great for those willing to take a stand against those things that don’t line up with Christ. His witness in his community has increased with his willingness to publicly confess his faith. Religious persecution does not just happen in Bible stories; it is a reality in the world today. Remember to pray for the Christians facing religious persecution and pray for Yadav and his family as he continues to walk in his growing faith and face the strong Hindu opposition that surrounds him.

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Our work in India began in 1997. We have seen God’s Spirit working in the lives of ServLife’s local leaders to demonstrate and proclaim the truth of the gospel in some very dark corners throughout India.

We will be having our annual leadership/pastor conference from November 12 – 16. There will 80 Indian church planters and mission workers who have all been trained by ServLife for one year, returning for a time of encouragement, fellowship, and training.  Joel Vestal and Ty Denney will be at this conference to participate and share in the teaching.All of these men are working to establish churches in their villages. The twelve current students will also be in attendance as well as local staff and church members.

Will you please pray about helping support these men to come to this conference? ServLife believes that the primary way we impact any community is to empower and equip the church in that community to share Christ in an effective way. This is our core conviction. All of these 80 church planters who we have trained all have amazing stories of God’s faithfulness, power, and provision for the ministries. Please continue to pray for them.

$180 will help send one pastor to this conference.   Will you help?

2009 India Pastor’s Conference in Raxaul, India

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We always work to create relationships with the local church and community so that those who receive the loans know that the local church, no matter how small, is concerned for the community. We believe this opens doors and builds trust for sharing faith and relationship.

The following report from a village in Nepal where a Hope Fund was started, was shared from Mark Storm, ServLife staff member on the ground in Asia. This is an example of what the ServLife Hope Fund is all about and what separates it from other micro-enterprise initiatives: not only meeting economical and physical needs, but relationship building and providing an open door for the Gospel to be experienced an explored.

“Two years ago, Hom Bahadur was released from prison in Dhankhuta. After his release, he moved back to his home village. He had just served 12 years for murdering his brother over a family financial dispute. Jail time behind him, he was ready to get back on with life.

Fast forward a year or so (that brings us to December 2008), and Hom Bahadur is receiving a loan from ServLife’s Hope Fund program in eastern Nepal. The information about his criminal history was unknown to me until last week. Had I already known his background, I probably would have had reservations about mixing it up financially with him. But when our own human, worldly wisdom fails, God steps in.

Hom Bahadur now is financially better off than he was a year ago. He has a milk and offspring producing buffalo, he has a buffalo calf, and another buffalo calf due to be born in a month or so. His microloan is being paid off in regular installments. His family is healthier due to the increase of dairy products in their diets.

When he received the loan, he was hesitant because it was from a Christian group. He confronted the church planter because he wanted to know why the Christians would want to help him. Why would they loan money without collateral and without threatening collection techniques? After all, he is a convicted murderer. The church planter explained that helping those less fortunate is part of acting out the faith. Hom Bahadur left from this impromptu meeting feeling much better about being involved with Christians.

Other discussions followed, and five months later Hom Bahadur started attending the weekly fellowships in his village. A month later, he officially joins the church. Two months after that (roughly present day), Hom Bahadur was attending one of ServLife’s training sessions in Kathmandu geared to develop layleaders. That’s where I saw him last. Hom Bahadur was almost giddy with excitement when I saw him at the training center. We were both surprised to see each other in this context. When we had met previously in eastern Nepal, he was a practicing Hindu, offering pujas under a hillside pipal tree. But there he was in the training session, still trying to find his way through his Bible. We would love to see more of this.”

The Hope Fund is designed to be this type of open door. A door where one can peek in and ask all the questions they’d like, whenever they’d like. Helping people economically and spiritually with the same effort is our goal.

Make A Donation to the ServLife Hope Fund in Nepal today!

(From the “Fund” drop-down box, select Project Support, then enter the dollar amount and select “ServLife Hope Fund” for the project to give to. Then enter “Hope Fund Nepal” in the Comments section)