The entire Walk in the Light team would like love to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We invite you to join us in giving a Christmas gift and a year end gift that will impact the children, families, villages, and entire nation of Burkina Faso - each dollar given helps us bless the people we work with.
As we celebrate Jesus this season, we recall Matthew 25:34-40;
"And the king will answer and say to them, Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me."
The best way to celebrate Jesus is to give and to give to those in need!!
Give to Help Build a Sports Court
We want to continue to see our schools and programs be the best in the nation. Rialo is the first village that has grades all the way through high school. We want to expand our sports program for these kids to give them even more opportunity to achieve their dreams. In order to do this, we need a multi-use sports court that can be used for basketball, tennis, volleyball and more! This will give our junior high and high school students the ability to form teams and compete at the district and even national level in sports. Adding sports programs will help the kids learn teamwork, sportsmanship, and even give some of them the opportunity to earn scholarships to universities. Our schools in Sondre and Vatao are needing soccer goals to start their sports programs.
Help Disciple the Kids
Discipling the kids is what WITLI is all about. Having Christian schools is how we do everything and truly make an impact on the nation. To have more intentional time with the kids we have expanded our discipleship program to add an after school program after school on Thursdays and Saturdays. We will be providing another meal for the kids in order to care for them and encourage more kids to participate. The cost is $1,000 a month in all three villages. We have a goal to have the entire school year funded before the end of the year!
Help Build the Chapel
We are so excited to start on this project! As our programs are growing, having meeting space has been difficult to find. The only space we have for gathering is in the school classrooms or outside in the hot sun or rain. To help solidify the ecosystem we have at WITLI, we want to build our first Community Center! This building will serve as a space where we can gather all the kids for discipleship, worship, employee teachings and trainings, bible studies, and even church on Sundays. This building will have a cafeteria where meals can be served and of
Give a Gift to Our Teachers
Our teachers are like missionaries; they are not from the villages the serve in. Then they join the team, they move out to the village and serve as teachers and pastors to the children. We provide housing for them and desire to take good care of them. Ten teachers need their houses repainted; each house costs $550.
Give Towards Education
We have various urgent, education development projects in the works. These include, electricity, toilets, paperwork, administration building, school building painting and maintenance.
Give Towards Our Ministry Fund
Help Support Our Churches
Help Support our Churches: Seeing the gospel of the Kingdom of God advance throughout the Earth is the heartbeat of WITLI. One of the ways we see that accomplished is through the churches planted by our leaders in Burkina Faso. We are seeing amazing miracles and people being saved daily through the work of these churches. With your support, you can help them continue the work. Lion’s Church holds monthly crusade gatherings where hundreds and thousands are coming to give their lives to Christ! New sound equipment is greatly needed for the work of this ministry. Living Word Church is growing and needs a new building! We need $25,000 to purchase the new sound equipment and complete the building of Living Word Church.
Give to Support Our Women Empowerment Program
Our Pay it Forward Program empowers women to start small sustainable businesses so they can support themselves and their families. This program truly changes the lives of these women! Through this program we provide women with a microloan to start their business and once it is paid back the money rolls over to the next woman who needs a loan. 100 percent of every dollar donated goes to funding woman after woman, so your gift truly will keep on giving! We have over 100 women on a waiting list to get loans. This year our goal is to see an entire village of women’s loans get funded!