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Support for Widows and Orphans
In the village of Cianjur Java, Indonesia, Connecting Families has been feeding 14 children each month who have lost one or both parents. We are moving to a monthly sponsorship program where families who care can fully feed and clothe an orphan each month for 35 USD.
Since Covid 19 began, Connecting Families has been supporting four widows and their children in the village of Cianjur outside of Jakarta. With no means of income and no governmental assistance, the support provided has made a life-saving difference.
Lifeline for Refugees
Connecting Families has been taking care of some of the 13,657 refugees from other countries that are being sheltered in Indonesia. Many of these refugees are fleeing persecution, war, famine, and poverty in their home countries.
Though many are registered with the United Nations Refugee Agency and are receiving aid from the Indonesian government, the support received is not enough to survive. As a result, hundreds of refugees live with their families on the streets of Jakarta, homeless and hungry. Some will eventually be placed in a country willing to receive them, but due to Covid-19, the resettlement of refugees is slow and challenging. Connecting Families is fully supporting five refugee families but the need is great. Join us today for the provision for every last refugee family.
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Medical Assistance
Please help us help us help a Thai Boy receive chemotherapy. Puttakun Thongbor is a 9-year-old boy in Thailand battling Glioblastoma mutiforme brain cancer. Glioblastoma multimforme is a malignant grade IV brain tumor of the central nervous system.
Puttakun and his family already lost Puttakun's older brother to the same cancer a few years earlier. Now, after two surgeries, Puttakun is going through monthly chemotherapy in an attempt to extend his life. Fortunately, the Thailand government is covering the cost of Puttakun's chemotherapy, however his family needs 50.00 USD per month for travel expenses to take him to the hospital for treatment.
Connecting Families has been providing the money each month for Puttakun and his parents to travel to the hospital for treatment but the designated funds have run out. For 50.00 you could help extend the life of a dear little boy who means the world to his parents. Puttakun is the last child his parents have left."
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Past Campaigns
Connecting Families seeks to connect families with needs to people who care by providing disaster relief, support for widows and orphans, and medical assistance for families in Indonesia and Thailand.
Mayflower Chinese Church
Four of the Mayflower Church families will have completed their refugee application screening interviews by March 15, 2023 and the other 12 families will be completing the interviews over the next few months. In the meantime, their pursuit of freedom comes with a cost. Their interim time in Thailand before eventual resettlement has cost more than 170,000 USD to-date. With months left to go in the resettlement process, the Mayflower Church needs funds for daily living expenses, housing and medical care. Any gifts donated through Connecting Families will be forwarded in full to their main sponsoring agency, the ChinaAid Associaton of Midland, Texas USA, with no funds deducted for administration. Please keep the Mayfower Church in your prayers, that God would provide their every need and eventually sail them to freedom in the USA.
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In August of 2022, sixteen families from the persecuted PRC Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church left Jeju Island in South Korea to apply for political asylum under the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bangkok, Thailand. Nicknamed the “Mayflower Church” because of their pilgrimage from persecution in the PRC to religious freedom (hopefully!) eventually in the US, the 64 church members have faced extraordinary challenges and difficulties on their perilous journey. The families of church members who still reside in the PRC have been threatened with reprisal because of the Mayflower Church member’s quest for political asylum. During their temporary sojourn in Thailand, members of the Mayflower Church have been followed by PRC operatives and threatened by immigration officials and PRC Embassy representatives as they go through the month’s-long UNHCR refugee application process. Connecting Families Director, Rev. Dr. Timothy Conkling, along with Connecting Families Indonesian Director, Asep Sopian coordinated and assisted the church members move and transition to Thailand from August to December 2022.
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