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Believer Poet Ministries Sponsors
Oggie Through World Vision
Ahrend Walters and Believer Poet Ministries sponsors Oggie Kayivwa through World Vision, a renowned Christian ministry organization that supports children around the globe.
Oggie is a "Hope Child" and part of The Musele Project. World Vision began the Musele project in 1997. With the support of generous donors, they are working with families throughout this community to build brighter futures filled with hope for their children. Many activities are under way to help meet immediate needs and promote lasting changes that will strengthen the community and move families toward self-reliance.
Current project goals include: - Equipping families and communities to care for orphans and vulnerable children while providing life-skills training to those affected by the AIDS pandemic.
- Ensuring that boys and girls receive adequate health care and immunizations in an effort to decrease mortality from diseases such as malaria, malnutrition, and diarrhea.
- Equipping Musele communities with the resources to provide children with a good education.
- Offering adult literacy classes.
- Helping families launch small enterprises to increase incomes, particularly those looking after orphans and vulnerable children.
- Digging wells so that more families in the community will have access to safe water.
- Advocating for the rights of women by offering seminars on gender issues.
- Partnering with local churches to nurture the faith of children and families.
Oggie is a seven year old boy living with his parents, two brothers, and two sisters in Zambia, Africa, a developing country in South Africa. His parents struggle to provide for the family. Oggie, who is not in school at this time, likes to play with toys, he helps at home by running errands, and he's in satisfactory health. However, Oggie and his family live in a community severely affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis.
In some communities, AIDS affects the entire social structure as a generation of hardworking adults is being wiped out. Frightened children and exhausted grandparents rarely have money for food, school, or medical care. Through sponsorship, it's the Believer Poet's joy to know that he is able to help Oggie and his family with these and other basic needs.
It is Ahrend's deep desire to help other children such as Oggie. He also hopes to someday visit Zambia, "the butterfly in the heart of Africa". This country, surrounded by Angola, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia, is the land of the legendary African walking safari, home of the Victoria Falls, the wild Zambezi River, breath-taking lakes and wetlands, a profusion of birds, abundant wildlife, and raw, pulsating wilderness. This country is an inspiration to the Believer Poet's writing.
Here is an original poem by the Believer Poet dedicated to his friend and Hope Child, Oggie Kayivwa. (Note: read the left column first, then to the right column, back and forth through the entire poem)
A Butterfly Story
By: Ahrend R. Walters
Dedicated To: Oggie Kayivwa
January 10, 2008
Kar a Christian caterpillar
Many critters called her worm
Not a one would speak to her
Even when she’d give her toys
But Kar the Christian caterpillar
Those critters of the thickened wood
They didn’t care that she was kind
So she fully wrapped herself
Not a one could see her
Laughed Bully bullfrog
After that were many days
Asleep in prayer to Christ our Lord
She heard the voice of He our Lord
Saying you dear faithful child
Consume the silk that surrounds
I reward you loving one | my sweet and fuzzy friend
to hurt her deep within
with something nice to say
they wouldn’t let her play
she always chose to love
who would often shove
they always chose to hate
at an evening late
at where O could she be
she’s dead in the sea
she laid in a cocoon
until one afternoon
who spoke there to her mind
you faithful one of mine
and above you’ll fly
your limit is the sky
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Luke 6:35 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Ahrend Walters with his dog in front of his simple poet shack where he lives in Mississippi.
Below is a poem Ahrend Walters wrote about helping the needy children through World Vision.
Lets Chizzle Now
By: Ahrend R. Walters
November 18, 2007
Written in love for those living in deprivation and disease
Across the oceans and here at home
where for health and food they roam
though the wood is truly hard
away to reach their troubled yard
they will find the life they need
as our flesh will crave for greed
rhymes that hold a blessing pure
at our hands He is the Cure | for our love they yearn and starve
a path to them we now must carve
come with me Lets Chizzle Now
through Christ our King the wisest Owl
if we will sacrifice at times
lets find a way to give them rhymes
and ones that give hope and peace
through Christ our Lord their cries can cease |
Ahrend Walters continues to write original poetry and shares some of the poems he has written for and about children.
Poems for Children
World Vision faithfully uses sponsorship support to meet the needs of sponsored children and to minimize the impact of AIDS if their communities are affected. Oggie is a Hope Child, Hope Child sponsorship helps children devastated by HIV/AIDS.
Believer Poet Ministries encourages you to sponsor a child through World Vision.
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