Rescue Iraq

Progression of the Land

Tomorrow we're pouring

Please say a prayer for us as we really get this project 'grounded' with tons and tons of concrete poured into the earth starting tomorrow morning.

Here's a few pics of how things looked on Wednesday as they started putting the rebar into the soil.    

Neighborhood Children

While we were at the project site a few days ago we got a chance to meet some more of the neighborhood children that had just let out from the school next door.

They are enjoying clamoring over our dirt piles, sliding down the slippery rock piles, and walking along the wall that separates our project from the school. Here are a few pics:

          

Taking Shape

On April 1, 2009 we signed an agreement with the local government that gave us stewardship of 1 acre of land in the Freedom Martyr's Village in Soran, Iraq. Up till now, we have not had a chance to take full advantage of this tremendous opportunity, but this weekend all that changed.

Here is a pic of the land on April 1, 2009.

The spring rains make everything look pretty around here, but as of last weekend the land looked liked this.

Not so pretty with piles and piles of extra dirt, we had a lot of work to do.

Here's our contractor with Abdullah and a few of the neighborhood boys -- their school in the background.

But, like I said, this all changed this past week. The land was cleared and dug out for the foundation of the community center as things seem to be taking shape.

 

Praise the Lord with us as we take this important step. Your prayers will be most appreciated as we seek to provide a place, a platform really, upon which we can serve the needs of the orphans and widows of Soran, Iraq.

New 'Project Profile Flyer' for Iraq Project

Download our Iraq Project Profile Flyer to get an overview of our work in Northern Iraq and how you can be involved in partnering with us to rescue orphans and widows in this land.

Click here to Download Iraq Project Flyer

First Annual Conference - Erbil, Iraq

Today, we opened World Orphans' First Annual Conference in Erbil, Iraq for the benefit of the orphanage directors of Iraqi Kurdistan with the help and support of Lake Pointe Church of Rockwall, Texas. It's a 3 day affair seeking to help some 20 professional care-givers to nearly 1,000 orphans better understand and meet the needs of the children in their care.

Caty Sarkes of Cairo, Egypt who has spent the past 20 years in counseling roles for women and children (educated in the United States and Australia) came to give the lectures that have already received praise from the Minister of Social and Labor Affairs who attended one of the sessions.

He said that the subject material was of great interest to him as it involved his select discipline of study and remarked that the session was simply "Fantastic!"

Thank you, Caty, for pouring out your heart that they might better do the same.

Please be in prayer over the next couple of days as we seek to infuse into their lives a love which only God can give for the orphans in their care.