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First Half Progress Report from Gambella - 2024

• March 25, 2024

Good News Friends! God has graciously blessed us with new successful fundraising platform and donor friends to help build our school building this coming year and this is a true blessing. I want to say thank you to all our generous donors for their continuing support to the orphans and willingness to help change many lives. The orphans in the ARM Center, this semester beginning in early 2024. The children have now taken their mid-term exams and they will be taking vacation for approximately one week in this period. 


We are pleased to inform you that the poultry farm is operating efficiently and being managed on a daily basis by our staff to provide food for our community of orphans and widows. We now have 200 chickens in the poultry farm and we want to say a very special thank YOU and how much we appreciate those of you who participated in this project with us. The dozens of healthy chickens in the lots we finalized last year will be used for feeding our orphans in the program.


As you can see in the recent pictures shared by our staff in Gambella below, these impoverished widows are progressing every day and our ministry is improving their lives. This is because of your efforts to support ARM. This is all made possible by YOU, our donor support. We cannot THANK all of you enough!

 

Your prayers over them daily will be greatly appreciated!!! Please pray as I am going to be in Africa for the month bringing the necessary school materials and working with our partner, Heart of Africa. Our board asks you to remember us as we travel and bearing witness to all of those who rely on ARM. Be on the lookout for the next update. Praying blessings on your life dear brothers and sisters. We truly love you.

 

Your brother in Christ, 

 

Rev. Michael Gatkek 


Sudanese Nazarene International Ministry Coordinator US/Canada 

African Nazarene Coordinator US/Canada

CEO/ Founder of African Relief Ministries 


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