“How can I help spread the Gospel Light Worldwide?”

South Africa | China | Cameroon | Kenya | Albania

South Africa | $46,000 needed

• To enable the creation of our 12-year age level children’s curriculum in the Afrikaans – the 2nd most spoken language in South Africa
• To cover: translation, contextualization, artwork, proofing, and advertising
• To cover: distribution to impoverished churches & the training of 2000 teachers

Mainland China  |  $60,000  needed (of the $530,000 needed for completion)

                            Project 1: Next Generation Bible Curriculum

• To continue the development & printing of 12 year age level children’s Bible curriculum
• To continue operation of the Chinese website where teachers can download lessons and training materials, including 3 VBS programs… in Chinese!

Mainland China  | $42,595 needed

Project 2: For providing God’s Story for Me  -a children’s Bible Storybook

• To legally produce one of the first children’s Bible in mainland China
• To cover: translation, censorship process, ISBN, printing & distribution

Cameroon | $25,894 needed

• To continue the development & printing of Luke, a children’s Bible story picture book in partnership with Wycliffe. This resource is in the style of a children’s Bible flip-book has proved to be effective and can be adaptable for the various mother-tongue, tribal languages in the region.
• Breakdown:
• $6,000    for training (200 teachers at $20 per trainee)
• $2,500    for printing teacher’s manuals (50 sets at $50 each)
• $8,500    for the Bible Story Picture Flip-Books (50 sets at $170 each set)
• $5,220    for printing equipment at the indigenous location
• $2,540    for Lesson development of other local languages, distribution & Admin cost

Kenya | $20,000* needed

• For this pilot project to build a comprehensive “Bible Curriculum Project” to enable us to use in multiple regions/countries
• To reach: churches, Christian schools and even public schools

     *Amount: currently under evaluation and waiting on research information

Albania | $5,000*

• To assist in the continuation of the translation, development & printing of ‘Youth Bible Curriculum’, an Albanian-language version of Gospel Light’s 12-year age level children’s curriculum, created in a partnership between World Vision and the Evangelical Alliance of Albania.
  • “Albanian kids will have the greatest material ever in their own language” –project coordinator

  *Amount: currently under evaluation and waiting on research information

Israel, India, Eastern Europe & Pakistan: ongoing research & re-development phase 

We are a congregation of 300 worshiping members, and are the oldest continually active church in Nevada, which means we had a very old building that was becoming less and less safe for people to gather for Worship.  One September Sunday, at the end of our Worship service, we processed out of the old sanctuary and into our Family Life Center (a small gym), led by the longest-standing member carrying the cross, and our pastor carrying the Bible.  Two days later, the Twin Towers were attacked, and as we met for prayer, our Family Life Center became our sanctuary, our “holy” place.

Two years later, our leaders began planning our new sanctuary, deciding to not use an outside capital campaign company, but to encourage our congregation to pray and let God lead in His creative ways in raising the $2.2 million needed to build the sanctuary.  Our journey through this time of building truly showed how God uses His people to do His work.  The congregation became a team with people using their personal interests to raise money.  One member, who’s good at working with

E-bay, sold items people brought to him that they had found in their homes and no longer wanted. $12,000 was raised through this project.  We put our pennies in big jars labeled “Pennies for Heaven”, and old coins were traded in for their real value.  Another member suggested we collect aluminum cans, and took the responsibility for turning them in for cash (another $14,000 was raised through this project). Because bringing cans was something the kids could be involved in, they took ownership of the sanctuary – it wasn’t just for the adults, it was their church, too!  The kids sold calendars which they had illustrated. The stories go on and on. And God’s “Divine Math” was working, because GOD was working.

This past June, on our church’s 150^th Birthday, after seven years of worshiping in our Family Life Center, we had the fun of burning the mortgage on the new sanctuary.  So when the kids decided to make and sell calendars this past Christmas, they chose to give their profits to “One Million Children”.  It made sense to them: they like learning about Jesus’ love, and knowing Him, and they wanted to give other kids the opportunity to know Him, too.

At the end of our Christmas Pageant (a traditional program with elementary kids singing, youth group kids pantomiming the Nativity story as it is narrated, and the congregation singing carols), we showed the “One Million Children” video.  The kids sold their calendars as people went to coffee hour.  They sold out of calendars, raising $400 for One Million Children.  But the hearts of many people watching the video were touched, so many people gave donations beyond the purchase of a calendar, and once again, God used His “Divine Math”. It was my privilege this January, to personally “deliver”, to the president of Gospel Light Worldwide, our donation of $2035 to “One Million Children”.

It is our prayer that God will continue His “Divine Math” with this money and all money given, so that many children all over the world will hear of His love shown through the Life, Death and Resurrection of His Son, Jesus, our Lord.

Submitted by:

Nancy Kochsmeier, Children’s Ministry Director

1^st Presbyterian Church, 306 W. Musser Street , Carson City, NV  89703

Your children will develop a sense of participation in bringing Bible lessons to children of countries all around the world.  $1 provides Bible lessons for one child for an entire year!  It is truly amazing how many lives can be changed with even the smallest gift.

Just one example of partnership last summer was a generous donation to One Million Children from the VBS program at First Presbyterian Church, Carson City NV.  This donation alone provided for Bible Lessons for numerous home-churches in several countries.

For more information on how your church can participate for 2012, contact One Million Children/ Gospel Light Worldwide at info@glww.org

Nancy Kochsmeier presents VBS Missions offering to One Million Children

Understanding the vital need to address this issue, iVangeli has spent much time and effort doing teacher training workshops throughout South Africa. Over the past four years over 300 churches have been supplied with curriculum through iVangeli (GLW) and 1,183 teachers received training … tools to effectively disciple for children who will perhaps grow up become the next teachers.

To receive our Partner Briefing for South Africa, contact us today.

The Children’s Ministry That Could Change a Nation

In partnership with the South Africa National Sunday School Association and a local team of translators, editors and artists, we have completed our children’s Bible curriculum specifically to the South African culture and promote it under the name of “iVangeli.”

This culturally sensitive version was first written in English, then immediately translated into the Zulu, Xhosa and Afrikaans languages to serve both the black and white communities.

Churches appreciate the local flavor of iVangeli, curriculum developed and produced in South Africa. Being locally produced means the lessons are culturally relevant to South African children.

Unfortunately, there are still thousands of churches that have not even considered using curriculum of any kind as Sunday School is seen as a baby-sitting service and not a teaching opportunity. Local leaders are just beginning to promote the true value of children’s ministry.

It is the great desire of iVangeli in partnership with Gospel Light Worldwide to promote the idea of children’s ministry to uninformed churches throughout this region.

The Work is not done and the NEED still persist.

We have recruited some people to translate the books into Afrikaans and this is almost complete. Afrikaans is the second most widely spoken language in South Africa. So we are hoping to launch the Afrikaans material soon and bring on board the Afrikaans churches with the 12 years of curriculum in their language.

We endeavor  to make the curriculum available for the impoverished churches. Please consider joining Gospel Light Worldwide with funding the translating, contextualization, printing and distribution of this vital, life changing curriculum.

So to this end we request the amount of R240 000. ($30,000)

The breakdown:

• $12,000 for printing of new children’s curriculum
• $ 7,000 for translators
• $ 7,000 for proofing/editing
• $ 4,000 for training

iVangeli Curriculum is becoming  the largest most well known curriculum in South Africa. Many churches across our borders have requested material so we would like to increase our range throughout Africa.

Please consider joining the adventure of reaching “One Million Children” in Africa of  what was called ‘The Dark Continent” with ‘The Light of the World.”

A  South Africa Partner Briefing is available upon request 

For additional information, please read Fund Your Children’s Ministry While Helping One Million Children

Let us help you raise funds for your children’s ministry.

You see, one of the things we have to do constantly is raise funds to bring God’s Word to children all around the world. We know that if we do not raise funds for these projects, our children’s ministry teachers would not get the resources they need for an effective program. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

How it works: For the best possible results, we recommend a Free Church Movie Night showing One Million Children; a Journey of the Heart.

When the movie has finished and after you offer everyone a chance to participate by discussing the film, pass out copies of the forms (below) letting people know that your church has a special Thinking Globally, Acting Locally sharing arrangement with us and that means that all donations collected at your church will be split 50/50 between Gospel Light Worldwide and your children’s ministry program.

In other words, together we’re ‘glocal’- you know, Thinking Globally, Acting Locally. We’ve become partners in helping children know Jesus; in your church and around the world. Now, that’s a perfect match!

Project: Evangelical

“First of all let me thank Gospel Light Worldwide in the name of the Albanian staff of YBC [Youth Bible Curriculum] project in the Evangelical Alliance of Albania office. You have been a real blessing to us, especially with your huge help with the materials of the curriculum. You have been always ready to help us in every moment. Ditjon, our talented designer told me about your will to help our work. We believe that very soon Albanian kids will have the greatest material ever in their language! An important role in this project has also been our close partner organization: World Vision/Albania. As one part of the work is going well, we want to do the best even in promoting and distributing YBC. Our goal is that every church in Albania will be using the YBC curriculum.”

South Africa Teacher Training

By Lisa Ekman of iVangeli Publishing in South Africa and partner of GLW:

This was said to me by one of the leaders of a church in Port Elizabeth where I ran a training this week-end: “I am so tired of using material which is just not relevant for South African churches. The imported material I have been using just needs too much adjustment to make it suitable for our church. Sometime you wonder if it is worth spending all that money on an imported material”

iVangeli’s Curriculum (adapted from Gospel Light) was developed for the South African churches. So in Port Elizabeth a city of about 1million people the Congregational churches were having an annual conference for their regional representatives for children’s ministry.
These 21 people represent up to 20 churches each.  They were all desperate for material they could use for their Sunday schools that is affordable and relevant to the children in their churches

We got together another whole group from various churches in Port Elizabeth to come for training. 67 arrived and we had a wonderful time. Being so far from Johannesburg  900 km 556 miles they are quite isolated so they enjoyed the training immensely.
So it has been an exciting weekend here in South Africa 88 teachers trained.

Please pray for the continued success in this project of raising up teachers and producing effective curriculum for children’s ministry through iVangeli in concert with Gospel Light Worldwide. Your gracious donation would make a big difference. Would you consider clicking on the “donate now” button and make a difference today?