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Life In Focus

Life In Focus. Impact the Life of a Whole Community – Through the Kids. Vulnerable Kids. In 2006, 14 percent of children in underdeveloped countries died before their fifth birthday. Over 80 percent of these deaths were preventable.

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Life In Focus

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  1. Life In Focus Impact the Life of a Whole Community – Through the Kids

  2. Vulnerable Kids In 2006, 14 percent of children in underdeveloped countries died before their fifth birthday. Over 80 percent of these deaths were preventable. Thousands of kids die each day from hunger and treatable diseases – poverty the underlying cause.

  3. Kids: The Life and Soul of Their Communities Kids and the church are the strongest assets a community possesses, but they are also the most vulnerable. Under the loving nurture of local churches, however, thousands of kids are the center of transformation in their communities.

  4. Welcome to Community! People are drawn naturally to community because living in community is God’s design for all People.

  5. Welcome to Community! Kids A kid reaching their full potential depends on the health of the entire community.

  6. Welcome to Community! Home Home is where a child learns values, sees behaviors modeled and shares what they have learned.

  7. Welcome to Community! Church Knowing God and living for Him brings true transformation to a community – and kids are leading the way.

  8. Welcome to Community! Marketplace Small loans and agriculture training create business opportunities for the most vulnerable families.

  9. Welcome to Community! Kids Clubs Drama, puppet shows, songs and games within a Christian framework reach kids at their level – capturing their attention and imagination.

  10. Life In Focus RealKids. RealStories. RealLives.

  11. Real Kids Meet Mimi: • Mimi is an 8-year-old Burmese girl. • Her parents were forced to flee Myanmar because they were persecuted for their Christian faith. • Mimi’s family arrived in the Clarkston community near Atlanta in June 2007 as refugees. • Her best friend is from Cuba. • She has an older brother and a baby sister. • She teaches her parents English words and sometimes translates for them.

  12. Real Kids Meet Zuberi • Zuberi is an 8-year-old Burundian boy. • He was born in a refugee camp in Tanzania during the violent civil war in Burundi. • When his family moved back to Burundi, they started over with nothing. • He has seven brothers and sisters and he helps his parents grow bananas, beans and cassava. • He loves to play soccer and handball.

  13. Real Stories

  14. Real Lives The ways children respond to the challenges around them directly affects their siblings, friends, church and village. Watch the changes unfold through the eyes of a child and see how important one kid’s life can be.

  15. Your Opportunity to Contribute Through Life In Focus, you have the opportunity to contribute directly to bringing abundant life to children and their communities around the world.

  16. Your Opportunity to Contribute • Pray • Give • Engage

  17. Pray • Pray that children around the world would come to know Jesus through the work of World Relief. • Pray that volunteers have energy and compassion for the children they serve. • Pray that the Lord transforms communities.

  18. Your $32: Give Enables thousands of kids to grow strong physically, mentally and emotionally Strengthens the Church who introduce kids to Christ. Teaches life-saving health lessons to mothers and significantly reduces child mortality rates. Enables business-minded parents to provide for their children through small loans. Provides school supplies and after school support for refugee kids.

  19. Engage Through the website, follow the stories of our featured kids as they impact the communities around them. Follow their stories as they interact with and impact their communities. www.worldrelief.org/lifeinfocus

  20. “I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” John 10:10

  21. Join us: www.worldrelief.org/lifeinfocus

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