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A film team is partnering with humanitarian project leaders to create a race that will give orphans a chance to train for and challenge American children to a race. In a “health to heal” campaign, American students will be training and getting healthy in order to run. The money raised through pledges and sponsors will help build the village and create awareness of the crisis they face. The American winner of ZUME wins a free trip to visit and stay with the orphans in Zambia. Learn more at http://zume.bofheaven.org
 
 
These children need your help to be fully sponsored! The following children are in need of partial sponsorships to ensure that they receive all that is necessary to feed, clothe, house and educate them.  Please pray and consider contributing financially and provide these children a life to succeed! Donate $30 a month or $60 a month and let's get these kids fully sponsored!   Become a Sponsor today!
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We currently have two of our houses filled with children, and we would like to open our third home by June 1st. Twelve (10 pictured) children need your help so they can have a home at the Village. But we need your financial support.
 
A God Sized Task 04/16/2010
 
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By Stephen Sharman
In December of 2009 I was one of four brothers who traveled to Zambia on a mission to finish the work remaining on the first four buildings constructed at the Breath Of Heaven Children’s Village.  The members of this little contingency were pastors Ted Lawler & Michael Devine, and lay workers Jim Wolter and myself.  The scope of the work involved some finish carpentry, electrical work and plumbing.  The goal set before us was to get the first group of children into the Village by the end of January 2010.  We had a very narrow focus and that left little time for anything other than the work. 
 
 
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Completing a mission is no easy task.  It takes a vision, coordination, dedication and a lot of prayers. Melissa Karamian, a lifelong missionary, is no stranger to the requirements. She has participated in missions trips to over 10 countries on 5 continents.  Over that time, she also knows that sometimes the mission overseas is not completed on one visit. When that happens, investments both financially and emotionally in seeing the mission through can be a stress-inducing practice.  "At the beginning of the year, I had two goals.  I wanted to help fund-raise for the young girls who were going on this years missions trip.  Also, I wanted to get in shape and was looking to do a 5K run. While searching for a 5K to run, it hit me."

As a result, she prayed and was lead to coordinate a fund-raising activity that can raise the ongoing funds necessary to continue the work in Africa year after year. The result was the Race4Love.
 
 
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Note by Ted Lawler, Executive Director
What joy my wife Judy and I, Michael Devine, the children and the staff experienced as we celebrated the grand opening of our Children’s Village on January 28, 2010! Many dignitaries and officials attended, but we were especially blessed to have a government cabinet member, Lt. General Ronnie Shipkawasha, dedicate our first homes. He is the Minister of Information and Broadcasting for all of Zambia. His presence and support of our work were much appreciated. Many of our orphans lived in small homes, some with eighteen people crowded just into two rooms. When they arrived at the Village, they ran and jumped and laughed. One little girl, Racheal, ran into her room and jumped up and down on her bed and shouted with glee, “It’s my room! This is my bed!”
 
 
Update by Pastor Ted Lawler, Executive Director, Breath of Heaven Childrens Ministries
One thing that impresses me about our children is their feelings of gratitude for the care and provision you, the sponsors, have given them. On my last visit, I was given a letter by one young man who had come to us through the Bible Gospel Church of Africa. Lazarus was fifteen years old when the church found him, was suffering from tuberculosis and had never been to
school. He is a double orphan, meaning both parents are deceased.


 
 
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By Kelly Fudge
I had the privilege and honor to participate in the Breath of Heaven Vacation Bible School for a week. As we taught through the Fruits of the Spirit, our primary goal was simple: to give the children the best time of their lives. I was nervous at first about how I would even be able to connect with them since our life experiences were worlds apart. It did not take long, however, for their child-like spirits to venture out from underneath the tough exteriors. I found out that they just wanted to be loved like any other child!
 
 
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Narrative by Judy Lawler
We had no idea it was a water park! Last July when we rented a bus, piled all of our kids into it and headed outside of the city of Lusaka to a destination that a Zambian friend had recommended, we were anticipating just your typical day of fun at the park. We had packed about 80 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (enough for 2 apiece) along with 40 bananas and drinks, so that we could have a picnic as well as enjoy the playground activities. When we pulled up to a well-manicured parking lot and noticed a line of people with beach towels waiting to get in, our suspicions were aroused. Our surprise was complete when we went through the gates and entered into a tropical paradise with lush vegetation and pools of water of various depths and shapes, all beckoning to us to jump in!
 
 
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Narrative by Kareen E. DelConte
I wasn‘t really sure what to expect with this whole ―interviewing process Judy and I were embarking on. I was concerned that the kids would be shy and closed-off emotionally—and understandably so. They had already been through so much in their young lives. What were they supposed to do—just flip a switch for 15 or 20 minutes and start pouring-out their innermost thoughts and feelings to a couple of complete strangers?