Living Stones Guadalajara: Tournament

Living Stones Guadalajara: Tournament: Saturday, October 5th Carpina, Guadalajara, and some teams from Recife got together and had a tournament:

Women's Basketball Team

The team that came from California put together this video of their time here:

Infographic of Carpina

God Continues to Move

In 2013, Living Stones came alongside Glory Sports in Guadalajara and Carpina to serve the local community. Athletes in Action is also working with them, and has their headquarters in Carpina. They are doing a fantastic job training leaders and offering the services needed in Carpina at this time. Because of limited resources, the leadership of Living Stones has decided to focus on expanding the Glory Sports/Living Stones ministry in Guadalajara and Lagoa de Itaenga. 

From now on, the blog and effort will be moving from Carpina to Lagoa de Itaenga. We are excited to see what God will continue to do in Carpina, and do our best to keep you updated on what God is doing in the lives of 300 children in this community. 

Teaming Up

Americans and Brazilians got together to put on a two-day program in Carpina and Guadalajara, playing basketball and sharing the gospel to a couple hundred children:

Tournaments

Athletes in Action and Glory Sports ministries have been having a great time at a couple of different tournaments. This last one was the Carpina and Guadalajara teams at Guadalajara. Thanks for your support!

 

 

Building Living Stones: Word of Life 2013

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April

Glory Sports is doing a wonderful job in Carpina, making sure to connect the children with the church and English class on Sundays. For Easter, they had a wonderful Passion play:

They are also planning a trip to the USA in June!

Here is what Rogerio says:

Our soccer program has been invited to take a team to go to the US in June 2013 to Covington, IN. I have been talking to Ryan Sowers who is a High School teacher at Covington High School and is the head soccer coach. We thought it would be a great opportunity for both ends if we make this trip happen. From sharing the gospel in the US to giving the Brazilian players a chance to experience another culture, this trip would be a huge learning experience. Additionally, it gives  our Brazil soccer program a solid credibility status which would encourage boys and girls in Carpina to choose our sports programs.

We are working on fundraising for the trip to cover the cost of airplane tickets. Ryan secured reasonably priced ground transportation while they are in Indiana and has also raised funds for  lodging and meals with his church. We are working hard to gain the cooperation with local businesses so they can be involved with this great journey as well. We understand that it takes time to build credibility but we are hopeful for the best! Our sports project is growing so we are excited for the future as we watch the Holy Spirit of God changing these kids' lives.

 

The boys are doing little jobs to raise spending money and they are really excited for the opportunity.  Would you consider helping us with the cost of the airline tickets and hosting our group for two days?

Dates: June 02^nd – June 15^th 

Number of Players: 20

Leadership: 5-8 people

Age of the players: 14-19 year old

Cost of plane tickets: Approximately $1500 per person

Thank you for your help

To give online go to https://wribrazil.myetap.org/soccertrip/

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Introducing Living Stones

This blog is to keep you updated with what is going on with the Living Stones program in Carpina, Northeast Brazil.  If this is your first time hearing about Living Stones, or you would like a quick refresh, here is a quick look at the program:

Living Stones serves impoverished children.

We work with many street children (a term used for both market children--who work in the streets and live with their families--and homeless street children--who work, live and sleep in the streets, often lacking contact with their families: Casa Alianza, Worldwide Statistics, Sept. 2000) and at-risk children who apply for help and welfare assistance in the urban context, and generally impoverished children in rural context.

Each child is individual, as well as their story and needs, whether they are temporarily or permanently in need. For most of these children, the meal they receive at Living Stones is the only hot meal they will have all day. We help them scholastically and nutritionally, enabling them to go to school instead of spending that time begging/working for food.

 

Living Stones is located in Northeast Brazil with World Renewal Brazil.

Working under the ministry of World Renewal Brazil (http://www.wribrazil.com/), Living Stones is a program individually connected with and under its respective church to serve the children in their community.

 

Living Stones is a community outreach and church planting ministry.

We work with churches who desire to either 1. Begin a new church plant, or 2. Expand their church ministry within their community. We come alongside our brothers and sisters in Brazil to help train them and give them the resources to make a lasting difference in their community.

Through the week = Living Stones

On Sundays = A new church plant, or community outreach

 

Living Stones LENDs: enabling churches to provide Love, Education, Nutrition, and Direction

Each Living Stone program is set up to help their community in the best way possible. Some are full-time programs, serving two groups per day, in conjunction with the school system. One group goes to school in the morning, 1:00-4:00pm Living Stones (lunch and classes), and the other group comes 8-11am Living Stones (classes and then lunch), and goes to school in the afternoon. Some Living Stones are half-day programs,  some are in conjunctions with Glory Sports ministries, and some are on the weekends.

You can help Living Stones LEND by giving a HAND

Have a HEART for the ministry, investing a part of yourself. ASSISTANCE by coming to Brazil yourself is always welcome and needed (opportunities at http://www.wribrazil.com) . Please take the NEEDS of the ministry before the Lord (find out more at www.buildinglivingstones.blogspot.com) , who supplies abundantly, and lastly, DONATIONS are always a blessing (at www.wribrazil.com/livingstones.html).  

The cost of the Living Stones program is approximately $1 a day per child. Please pray about supporting a child with a monthly donation of $30 (www.wribrazil.com/foundationbuilder) Once 60 people are committed, we can begin to plant a new Living Stones program and church in a community.