We invite OTHERS to join the adventure to bring this vision into reality.
Orphan kids need:
Anchors....usually this is family and then expands to peers and other groups: band, church youth group, swim team etc. Every kid needs a group where they are loved, where they are valued. Orphan kids also need to be challenged to expand and break out of the false mindset that they have no value and nothing to offer the world. The label of "orphan" is something they will always fight to break, in their own eyes as much as in society in general.
SoFaMa will not only offer them a "group" in which to belong, but they will get the benefit of the spiritual formation for being a mature disciple of Jesus alongside the brain enhancing activities of learning to play an instrument and use the arts to express the deeper feelings that they may not otherwise have the words to express.
With SoFaMa we hope to create a "family" like atmosphere where the kids can feel loved, nurtured, and accepted. They will be challenged to work as a team, as one body, as a family; they will learn how to work with others in collaboration to reach a bigger goal than they alone could achieve. They will learn biblical principles of how to govern life to be pleasing to God and to connect with Him.
At the end of the year we plan to have concerts and presentations and a vision for taking these presentations (sprinkled with the testimonies of the kids) on tour and not just sharing the gospel, but putting into practice what God has been training us to do as disciples, to serve and meet the needs of those who have less than we have.
SoFaMa hopes to give them a platform, and equip them to launch them out into the world as disciples, evangelists, pastors, ministers. Our goal is transformed lives into the likeness of Jesus.
For this ministry to become a reality we will need regular supporters. Sponsors for the kids participating. The start up costs and the running costs will need to be provided for. As a not for profit organization, Music Camp Guatemala cannot "sell" stuff. We can offer concerts for fund raising purposes solo as donations only. Being located in Guatemala, the potential to get enough donors to support this ministry from within the country is unlikely. We'll never be self supporting but with your help, we can partner together to help train up these orphan kids to not just be Christians but followers/ disciples of Jesus; equipped to do outreach and ministry and prepared to face the storms of this life with deep roots of faith. In Matt. 28:19 Jesus gives the Great Commission "Go into all the world making disciples and baptizing them in the name of the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. and teaching them to obey all I have commanded you." Col. 1:10 says "And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God... "
The cost of one teacher for one month is $400. Each satellite location will need 3 teachers teaching at the same time (so the kids are not without anything to do and not sucking up their whole afternoon )
The cost of one satellite location for one month is $1,200
We have 5 satellite locations in the works.....2 are for sure going to happen in 2018. It is possible we can combine 2 of the ones that are requesting. Still negotiating with the orphanages and trying to find the best "site".
If we just do the 2 satellite locations in 2018, then the cost would be for the YEAR: $28,800. That is what we are trying to raise with this tour.
OUR GOAL FOR THIS TOUR IS TO RAISE UP DONATIONS AND SUPPORTERS THAT WILL COMMIT TO COVER THE COSTS FOR 2018 FOR AT LEAST 2 SATELLITE LOCATIONS
$28,800.
ICM is a fully registered 501C3 Non-Profit ministry. All gifts and donations are tax-deductible. Music Camp Guatemala and Sofama are under ICM. In Guatemala Music Camp Guatemala is it's own tax deductible entity. (NGO)
Vivian Douglas
Director of Music Casa Bernabé
www.webwizardry.net/~lyttled/Band
Director of Music Camp Guatemala
216-769-5664 (USA)
011(502)5602-4180 (Guatemala)