Dear Iris Sudan Family and Friends,

In the last year alone, we have welcomed over 75 children and our family continues to grow.  As many of you know, we are in temporary rented quarters and need to move by this summer.   We have the land to build our own facility, but we still need to develop it.  A friend of our Children’s Village has offered to match every dollar pledged by March 15, 2008. NOW DEC 31 2008!!!!!

But in order to take full advantage of this provision, we need your help!

As we move ahead in faith, the bricks for our first structures [housing for our children, school, kitchen, etc.] are already being made.   The final plans and approvals are being completed, so that we can begin formal construction shortly.  We are closer than ever before.  Ea ch small step of progress encourages our whole family with the tangible, visible evidence of God’s love and concern for even their most practical needs.

Ultimately, we are not just building very mu ch needed physical structures, we are building hope.  Hope is defined literally as confident expectation, trust, and reliance; to look for and leap up in expectation.  So our bricks are not merely bricks of mud and clay, they are Bricks of Hope.

The total cost of the structures covered in this project is about $400,000.  The mat ching grant will help us get there, but only if we are able to raise the other half of the funds.  Please prayerfully consider investing in what God is doing here, and inviting others to do so as well. Your support is not simply a donation; it is a tangible investment in something lasting… Like buying a brick that will be used to provide places where our children will eat, sleep, learn, play and worship.  Every brick that is bought not only builds a building; it builds hope into the heart of a generation.

Individuals, fellowship groups, clubs, civic organizations, chur ches, s chools, businesses can all get involved in building hope!  Every donation is significant, but here are some ideas of how your investment might help our community and family tangibly:

        40,000 bricks provide a s chool for our children to learn in

        15,000 bricks provide a house of prayer for our children and the adjacent community to worship in

        10,000  bricks provide a kit chen so our children can be properly fed

          8,000 bricks provide a home for 10 children and a house mama

             800 bricks provide for the portion of a house for one child

             100 bricks provide for a partnership with others to build hope for children in Sudan

Ea chBrick of Hope is $2.00.

Again, in order to take advantage of this incredible provision, we need to have all pledges in BY DEC 31, 2008 and the funds sent in as soon as possible thereafter.  We will be sending out regular short updates via email from bricksofhope@gmail.com as we progress. (If you want to receive these updates, please make sure that address is ok in your spam filters just in case!)

Thank you so mu ch for all of your support of what God is doing in Sudan.  We truly cannot do what we do here, without your love and involvement there.  Please email me with any questions you have and see the details below of how to participate. Thank you once again for your love, concern and time! 

In His Love,

Michele Perry

BUILDING WITH BRICKS OF HOPE

1. MAKE A PLEDGE THAT WILL BE MATCHED DOLLAR-FOR-DOLLAR, BRICK-FOR-BRICK:

To pledge an order of bricks or a specific donation that WILL BE mat ched, dollar for dollar, brick for brick up to 100,000 bricks or its equivalent $200,000: please send an email to bricksofhope@gmail.com no later than December 31, 2008.  Our matching grant is determined by pledges and has a deadline!  So, please do not skip this step in order for your gift to have full impact.

Please include: (Bolded fields are required)

            Name:

            Organization:

            Address:

            Phone:

            Number of Bricks (at $2 USD/brick) OR Dollar amount of contribution

*For our friends outside of the USA, please disregard the following.  We will send you information on where to send donations once we receive a pledge. Thank you!

2. SEND IN YOUR  DONATION:

Make all checks out to Iris Ministries and make sure you designate the check on the memo line: SUDAN-Bricks of Hope

For administrative purposes for this project alone, please send your pledged donations to:

Iris Ministries Sudan
c/o Diane Perry
37 Preakness Plaza
Orange Park , FL 32073

Your donations will be tracked for matching purposes and forwarded on for processing to our Iris Ministries headquarters in Redding, CA.  All gifts are tax deductible.

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