The Lord has blessed IVCARES with the experience of having a deeper appreciation of His grace and faithfulness. Faced with the challenges posed by health problems, schedules and resources, IVCARES embarked on a new program to raise funds for IVCF Philippines last year. Our usual caroling project that required us to go from house to house on the first three weekends of December would have been very difficult if not impossible for us to do. After much prayers and deliberation, The Lord led us to try a different way of caroling. Instead of going from house to house to carol on cold winter nights, we invited our donors and friends to a party and caroling in one of the members’ home. We praise the Lord for the many guests that came. They were treated to a sumptuous noche buena style dinner, caroling by the IVCARES choir, carols sing-along and warm fellowship. Our donors have been very generous with their giving. There were donors who were not able to make it to the party and just sent their donations and gifts. A total amount of $6,203.00 was raised. Praise the Lord indeed! From this amount, $253.00 went to the IVCARES operational funds. $5,950.00 was sent to Balikatan for IVCF Philippines staff’s thirteenth month pay.

Prayer Request:

Our group will be meeting, hopefully this coming Sunday January 31, to discuss the possiblity of hosting HIS sounds this coming fall. Pray for the Lord’s guidance and wisdom as we discuss and decide.

From: IV CARES Coordinator, Dr. Pete Parayno
Phone Number: 630-497-8432 paraynop@yahoo.com