Another Child Foundation STANDS for Orphan Sunday!

 

Below is some items from the Christian Alliance for Orphans

 

On Orphan Sunday, Christians stand for the orphan. We are a people called to defend the fatherless…to care for the child that has no family…to visit orphans in their distress. Each event is locally-led. Sermons and small groups, concerts and prayer gatherings, shared meals and youth activities—each rousing believers with God’s call to care for the orphan, and what we can do in response. From many sources, one voice. Each November, thousands of events will echo across America and around the globe, all sharing a single goal: that God’s great love for the orphan will find echo in our lives as well. Orphan Sunday is your opportunity to rouse church, community and friends to God’s call to care for the orphan.

 

 

 

Help Another Child Foundation make a difference in the life of an orphan. As you can see by the video your help can indeed make a difference in the life of a child that God has entrusted to the care of Another Child Foundation and Fundatia Buckner.

 

SPONSOR A CHILD

The sponsorship of a child through Another Child Foundation is surprisingly simple, and the effects your sponsorship will have on a child is dramatic. Supporting an orphan in our program enables our staff members to not only provide for their educational & physical needs, but will provide HOPE for the child as the staff mentors the child. By providing the LOVE of God to the child, the child’s self-esteem will soar as they develop into the person God has created them to be. Without the assistance of generous people these children will continue to live in the “darkness” they we born into

 

$12 for 12 Project

The 12 for 12 program is design to help our supporters get involved by committing a reasonable amount of financial resources. Each of the $12 donated monthly will help transform a life by supplying clean water, speech therapy, Christian education, food, medical attention and other items. However, it is God's LOVE and HOPE given by the Fundatia Buckner staff on a daily basis that truly transforms their lives.

The ACF & Fundatia Buckner Family Welcomes a New Member!

The Another Child & Fundatia Buckner family would like to introduce to everyone an addition to our family. His name is Andrei Ghiurca and he is the son of Andrei and Larisa Ghiurca. Larisa and Andrei have been the parents and caretakers of the young ladies in the Buckner Group home since this spring. Another Child, Fundatia Buckner and the young ladies are blessed to have these fine people in our program. Baby Andrei will be a welcome addition to the home!!! Congratulations my friends!

 

The proud parents!

 

Larisa and Andrei!

Andrei and his namesake!



 

 

ACF & Thrivent Financial partner on helping at-risk children

If you are a member of Thrivent Financial then you are probably aware of Thrivent Choice and Choice Dollars. Thrivent is a financial services organization that helps Christians be wise with money and live generously. They offer a broad range of products and services- including life insurance, annuities and mutual funds- along with guidance from their financial representatives.

For more than a century they have helped nearly 2.4 million members-owners make wise money choices that reflect their values. They also provide opportunities for them to be even more generous where they live, work and worship. Thrivent believes that all we have is a gift from God and that generosity is an expression of faith.

Another Child Foundation is excited to be a part of the Choice Dollars program. So, if you are a member of Thrivent and have Choice Dollars in your account that need to be distributed to a non-profit organization please consider helping us with your dollars. CLICK HERE to go to the Thrivent website to make your Choice Dollars go to work helping at-risk children in Romania.

Thrivent Financial was a big supporter of our Project Respond humanitarian aid drive as they donated the money for us to purchase all of the shipping boxes and supplies.

New Ride for Kids!

This summer is was deemed necessary to purchase a new van for Fundatia Buckner to use for transporting children to and from the Point of Hope Development Center. The old white van being used by the foundation was old and getting unreliable. The last thing we, or anyone wants, is to endanger kids by transporting them in an unreliable vehicle. This van has also been used to transport mission teams around Romania. Sometimes a coin-flip was taken and the losing team got the opportunity to ride in the white van an experience the beautiful Romanian countryside without air conditioning.

In all seriousness, the need for a much newer van was vital to the future of the ministry going forward. Since this was not a budgeted item in 2014 ACF did not the funds available to simply purchase a newer van. So, together with Fundatia Buckner we started to pray for a donor and some funds to become available to purchase the van we needed to ensure the safety of the children and mission teams. In July God answered our prayers and Dacian Moldovan (Fundatia Buckner-President) started the search for the perfect van that met his needs and our budget. Last week the van was found in Nuremberg, Germany. After a long drive back Dacian took these pictures for us to share with you guys.

Another Child Foundation and Fundatia Buckner are so thankful for everyone one out there who see the ongoing needs in Romania and decide to get involved. Without the help of so many of you we could not do the work that God has called us to do. ACF is overjoyed that God has entrusted to us the well-being of these children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10K Bushel Project

Don King & Dean Sweenie at the grill

On Tuesday October 7 ACF kicked off the 2014
10K Bushel project with a cookout for farmers at
Atherton Grain in Normandy, Illinois. ACF volunteers served over 50 grill cooked meals to farmers throughout the Walnut area. On Thursday, Michlig Grain made their farmers aware of the project to help at-risk children in our communities and around the world in Bradford, Illinois. ACF and Michlig employees served lunches to over 60 farmers and their workers during the 1-hour time. Friday, Michlig Grain was at it again in throughout the farming region of Bureau County delivering some delicious pork chop sandwich lunches. With the farmers harvesting their crops this time of year it is difficult to get these hard-working people to slow down for lunch. So, we made it easier for them as we hand delivered many of the chops. Maybe next year we will call this day "chops for crops". On October 16, ACF and Michlig Grain are partnering up one more time to serve the farmers in the Cambridge, Illinois area.

ACF volunteers and local farmers

Another Child is pleased to be partnering with great agri-businesses like Michlig Grain, Marquis Grain, Atherton Grain, and Northern Grain Marketing.

The Purpose of the 10K Bushel Project

The 10K bushel project is an effort to involve local farmers to support vulnerable children through-out their community and world.  Local farmers are the providers of much of the world’s food. Here in the mid-west farmers have been richly blessed with the ability to grow corn in amazing quantities. Area Agri-businesses, & Another Child Foundation want to partner with local farmers to tend to the needs of at-risk children. The donation of a farmers first bushels of grain will help rid the world of malnutrition. Whether it be 25, 50, or 100 bushels, their support will help at-risk children here in Central Illinois and throughout the world!



 A special THANKS to Ron Brokaw and his staff at Atherton Grain for all of their hard work, to Amy Allen, of Michlig Grain, for her coordination efforts, to Don & Val King for their vision in helping us help others, all of the Michlig Grain staff for their willingness to help us share the needs of vulnerable children all over the world. Finally, a thank you to Dave Bohm who will be heading up the 10K Bushel Project for Northern Grain Marketing. 

Shipping Container & ACF TV Episode #1

As of Monday, September 29 the shipping container full of aid collected during the Project Respond aid drive by our partner churches officially left the Quad Cites for Romania. We are so excited to be able to once again share with some vulnerable people of Romania some of the resources in which have been so richly blessed with. In cased you missed what Project Respond is all about please click here and here for the other blog posts.

A couple weeks ago ACF also released our 2015 Mission trip schedule. If you are interested in hearing more about these opportunities you can check out our video here.


Check out ACF TVs first web cast where we shared the ACF Ambassador's for Christ summer internship opportunity with a bunch of college-aged people who expressed some excitement about this fabulous opportunity. This is our first web cast. Check it out!