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Acts One Eight latest news is our way of telling you about what we are doing, and the events we are scheduling.
Bookmark this page to learn more about our mission, and to see how we are meeting our vision of bringing better health and the love of Jesus to the needy and underprivileged all over the world. We also invite you to forward the information you find here to others in the Christian community who may be sympathetic to our goals.If you have a news item you’d like to share, we’d be delighted to hear from you – click here to submit an article or just to send us a message.
Great news from Orissa! Robert Mophet writes: " I am so happy to let you know that now we can start building work in Orissa. Praise God for that. Thank you for your prayers. Please see the orphanage land photos. In the first photo, the man wearing shawl is the Local Council President. In the second you see a neighbour, a tribal lady. Third photo is the land view. Please pray and help to build orphanage. May God bless you,'
Thanks to Ian Harvey (see below) and everyone else who has contributed to make this possible - and watch out for further news!
Sponsorship wanted!
Well done Ian!
The goal to shed 42lbs has been achieved! Thank you Ian and your sponsors for contributing to the Orissa project. We expect around £500 and are looking forward to Ian’s next challenge. The goal is to do it all again! So, if you want to sponsor Ian (so much a lb) for his 2008 goal, email Michael Peters with your pledge. When the time comes you’ll be able to make payments (£, $ or Euros) directly through the website by credit card or PayPal.
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News from Dharwar... where the children in our first orphanage have sent us some pictures for the website!
Water for the ten children here comes from a borehole funded by the Besom foundation, while funding for the orphanage itself has been donated by Emma and the other trustees. We now need more funds to take care of the needs of individual children.
Our second orphanage……in Orissa on the eastern coast of India, is now being built. When it’s finished, it will house 100 children. Acts One Eight has given £1700 to start the project, and we’re now committed to a further nine payments of £1700 each.This money is just for the building and the facilities for these very needy children. We also need to secure them a supply of dietary supplements to ensure their continuing good health once they are living there.
Infant mortality in Orissa has been steadily falling for many years, but it still has one of the highest rates among Indian states – and this is the best way we know to shield these children from the threat of an untimely death. We urgently need more funds to protect other children at the same or greater risk.
Latest news from east Africa
We recently heard from the Rev Peter Stanway about the benefits of our dietary supplements to the children he and TheWay Christian Ministries are caring for in Rwanda.
Peter writes: 'The nurses report that their hair and skin are healthy, unhealed wounds are now healed and the children have a new energy and a new 
appetite. Sadly because of extreme poverty their hunger cannot always be satisfied. However, with your help we can do something about this.'
Acts One Eight is now supplying dietary supplements to medically fragile childen, including children with AIDS, in Rwanda and in Kenya (Nairobi and Kisii) – but we need more funds to continue the work and extend it to other, equally deprived areas.
Conference in Atlanta…
…where Michael spoke about the subject of Ministry in the Marketplace on 2 September. In his presentation he described what he had learned after 18 years as Chief Executive of a major US-owned business – that there is always another level of achievement, and always more to learn and share with others.
He spoke particularly to ministers in their role as leaders, who should always be looking for new directions and new goals. You can order DVDs and CDs of the event at www.thegreatlifefactor.com/ultimateimpact.
Acts One Eight in Romania
Casa Joany, in the hills around Sibiu in central Transylvania, opened in 2001. Funds come from a charity run by Ian and Joan Sherwood from Somerset, and Acts One Eight supports them with dietary supplements – introducing these into the children’s diet brought noticeable improvement in their health almost at once, and we need more funds to keep them supplied.
