Help Build a Playground in Manila!

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We're partnering with Lakewood Christian Schools (LCS) and Kids Around the World to build a playground in Manila, Philippines and now you can help!!!  If you have not watched the video, take a couple minutes and watch the video embedded to the left narrated by former LCS student Morgan Virtue.

At any given time there are about 60 to 70 kids from about 20 countries who are living on the campus of IGSL (International Graduate School of Leadership), which is a seminary and graduate school for pastors, missionaries, and Christian leaders. There are families from places like Vietnam, Pakistan, Myanmar, Bhutan, India, and Sri Lanka just to name a few in addition to the Philippines.  And over the next 10 years, over 400 kids total are going to have lived on the campus of IGSl for 2, 3, or even 4 years!

The playground area is one of the few places on campus these kids can play since it is a closed compound. But worse, many kids don't use the playground because it doesn't work well.  Many mothers don't let their kids near it because it isn't safe - several kids this past year alone had to go to the emergency room because of playground equipment related accidents. With the help of LCS and Kids Around the World, the dream that these kids would have a reliable, safe, and fun playground is coming alive!

A short-term team will be coming the week just after Easter to help install the playground and do some Vacation Bible School with the kids here (April is Summer in Manila!).  If you're interested in joining the team let us know, but you also can give online here to the project to help provide a great playground for these children and incredible families that are getting equipped to impact lives and nations for Christ - some in some very difficult places.  Please pray for these kids and families!

Salamat Po!  
(That's thank you very much in Tagalog, the native language of the Philippines!)

Christine Virtue

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