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Your Hands to a Hurting World
February 2009
Dear Coworkers,
Thank you for your generous support of CAMA Services throughout 2008. In addition to your financial help, I have sensed your prayers as CAMA has come through a tumultuous year, including the financial challenge of dealing with a growing staff and assisting with relief aid for persons affected by the Myanmar cyclone and the China earthquakes. Praise to God as He is in charge and working through your prayers.
The good news is that God has provided about $800,000 through the first six months of the fiscal year to meet our annual budget of $1.63 million. In other words, receipts are at 98 percent of budget as we begin the latter half of our fiscal year. Your partnership with us is a tremendous encouragement and your investments have brought a great return as you will see in the following highlights:
cambodia aids work
Eight new believers in our HIV/AIDS home-care project were baptized this year, along with more than 70 other believers from Battambang area churches.
kosovo community development
CAMA workers partnered with International Ministries workers in the Ringjallja Community Center in Gjilan to provide occupational therapy, counseling and other needed services. Eleven new believers have been baptized and incorporated into the community of faith which meets in the center.
china earthquake relief
A team of 710 expatriates and nationals provided trauma counseling and basic relief aid to approximately 3,300 survivors of the devastating May 2008 earthquake near Chengdu. More than 40 children who lost everything in the earthquake continue to receive support to live and study in a Christian school outside the refugee camps. Plans to establish a permanent counseling clinic in the area are underway.
myanmar cyclone relief
Damage to an Alliance Bible school in Yangon was repaired and more than $70,000 in relief aid has been given to survivors of a cyclone which claimed more than 225,000 lives. CAMA’s work is opening doors among the main people group (the Bama) in Myanmar, which is less than 1 percent evangelical believers.
central asia dental program
Sixty new believers (nine recently baptized) meet as a community of faith established by a CAMA worker through a dental ministry. Two lay pastors have been trained to carry on this work, which continues despite the challenges of opposition from the majority religion and a deteriorating security situation.
You are full partners in CAMA’s work above through your prayers and gifts. Thank you for your generosity throughout 2008. May God enable you to continue reaching out to “the least of these” through the CAMA Advance Fund in 2009.
With gratitude,
Phil Skellie
President, CAMA Services
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