Global Partners Month in July serves as an opportunity for us as a church family to better understand the heart of our mission teams and organizations that transform communities both locally and globally. If you did not know, approximately 10% of RVCC's budget goes to supporting ministries around the world. It is important that we take the time to build relationships, pray for, and support these partnerships. If you have attended RVCC for some time, you probably have heard about our Global Partner, Missions of Hope International. We have encouraged you to sponsor a child. To continue funding the work that Missions of Hope International are doing by striving to make relationships whole and transform lives so that people in extreme poverty can live as God intended. But what if we told you that sponsoring a child through MOHI is only the entry point toward holistic discipleship? The team who recently went to Africa to partner with MOHI returned with an outlook on mission trips that is far more relational and Kingdom impact driven than some of them had ever imagined before. Survival in the slums is a day-by-day process in these communities. Most families are casual workers meaning that every day they must find work by offering to do laundry, manual labor … every day is different. Finding work to support their families isn’t guaranteed. And sadly, this often leads to paths that include prostitution. But Missions of Hope International have a different vision. One that we could all learn from. Those who work for MOHI are unified in their vision for hope, in faith, and are committed to the cause. That commitment, that vision … transforms not only the children who attend the schools at MOHI. It transforms families and communities by establishing skill centers, health care, feeding school children throughout the day to allow the rest of the family to have more, purifying water, supplying soccer fields in the slums, and much more. We have heard stories back from children who have learned about the love of Jesus while attending the MOHI schools. Those who have gone back home to share the Gospel, live out the Bible, and pray with their families. Children as young as first and second grade are discipling their families to attend church at their school and learn about the hope that only God can give. And it all begins by building relationships within communities. We are one church family, with the same love for Christ and the same desire and need for prayer. We encourage you to pray for Missions of Hope International’s leaders, workers, child sponsors, and funding for projects.     Sponsoring a child through MOHI equips them to disciple their families and families are equipped to disciple a community. And that makes local and global change … a reality. Learn More About MOHI: www.mohiafrica.org

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