Building Living Stones: How to Relocate Your Heart: A Trash Dump Story

Building Living Stones: How to Relocate Your Heart: A Trash Dump Story: My first encounter of the dump was driving past a pile of trash and having a flock of white Ibis fly off it. The contrast of beauty and put...

Building Living Stones: Woman's Day at the Dump

Building Living Stones: Woman's Day at the Dump: There isn't a lot to celebrate when this is where you live. Our coloring time was interrupted by some boys who rode their donkeys...

Building Living Stones: Carpina Trash Dump January

Building Living Stones: Carpina Trash Dump January: (food baskets) On December 22 nd , the church got everyone together to bring a special sit-down holiday dinner for the families at the...

Building Living Stones: Thank you by Numbers

Building Living Stones: Thank you by Numbers: Living Stones is going into 2012 with a small surplus--thanks to God working through people like you. Please take a couple of minutes to see...

Building Living Stones: LAND HO!

Building Living Stones: LAND HO!: Massa Humana, working with Living Stones at the Carpina trash dump, has been given land to build a facility to serve the community. As y...

Building Living Stones: A Life Saved, a New Home

Building Living Stones: A Life Saved, a New Home: Massa Humana, the group working with Living Stones at the trash dump, is beginning to build a house for Maria Jose. She is 24, and a couple...

Building Living Stones: Children's day at the Trash dump

Building Living Stones: Children's day at the Trash dump: The Second Baptist church (through Massa Humana) went all out this Children's day. They gave every family the name and age of a child to...

Building Living Stones: Dentist at the Dump

Building Living Stones: Dentist at the Dump: Over 50 children received toothbrushes and toothpaste, as well as a fluoride treatment and training on how to brush correctly. ...

Building Living Stones: Dirt, Trash, Puppies, and Soup

Building Living Stones: Dirt, Trash, Puppies, and Soup: The trash dump. It is more impressive now because the city told them they can’t expand further. So now they are constantly sorting and then...

Building Living Stones: Mid-year Updates on our Three Living Stones Progra...

Building Living Stones: Mid-year Updates on our Three Living Stones Progra...: Cajueiro Claro Cajueiro Claro now has an official cook! While Pastor Flavio and I did a decent job cooking last year, EVERYONE involved...

Building Living Stones: Mother's day at the Dump

Building Living Stones: Mother's day at the Dump: What is this is what your life looked like? What if this was where you worked and lived? For those in the Lixao (trash dump) community, th...

Building Living Stones: Cleaning up the Trash Dump

Building Living Stones: Cleaning up the Trash Dump: Thank you for your prayers as we continue to see how God leads in serving at the trash dump in Carpina, and this community of people who liv...

Building Living Stones: Visiting the Dump

Building Living Stones: Visiting the Dump: Medical teams from the USA have been helping out a small community located next to the dump of Carpina for the past couple of years. This ar...

Introducing Living Stones

This blog is to keep you updated with what is going on with the Living Stones program at the trash dump in Carpina, Northeast Brazil.  If this is your first time hearing about Living Stones, or you would like a quick refresh, here is a quick look at the program:

Living Stones serves impoverished children.

We work with many street children (a term used for both market children--who work in the streets and live with their families--and homeless street children--who work, live and sleep in the streets, often lacking contact with their families: Casa Alianza, Worldwide Statistics, Sept. 2000) and at-risk children who apply for help and welfare assistance in the urban context, and generally impoverished children in rural context.

Each child is individual, as well as their story and needs, whether they are temporarily or permanently in need. For most of these children, the meal they receive at Living Stones is the only hot meal they will have all day. We help them scholastically and nutritionally, enabling them to go to school instead of spending that time begging/working for food.

 

Living Stones is located in Northeast Brazil with World Renewal Brazil.

Working under the ministry of World Renewal Brazil (http://www.wribrazil.com/), Living Stones is a program individually connected with and under its respective church to serve the children in their community.

 

Living Stones is a community outreach and church planting ministry.

We work with churches who desire to either 1. Begin a new church plant, or 2. Expand their church ministry within their community. We come alongside our brothers and sisters in Brazil to help train them and give them the resources to make a lasting difference in their community.

Through the week = Living Stones

On Sundays = A new church plant, or community outreach

 

Living Stones LENDs: enabling churches to provide Love, Education, Nutrition, and Direction

Each Living Stone program is set up to help their community in the best way possible. Some are full-time programs, serving two groups per day, in conjunction with the school system. One group goes to school in the morning, 1:00-4:00pm Living Stones (lunch and classes), and the other group comes 8-11am Living Stones (classes and then lunch), and goes to school in the afternoon. Some Living Stones are half-day programs,  some are in conjunctions with Glory Sports ministries, and some are on the weekends.

 

You can help Living Stones LEND by giving a HAND

Have a HEART for the ministry, investing a part of yourself. ASSISTANCE by coming to Brazil yourself is always welcome and needed (opportunities at http://www.wribrazil.com) . Please take the NEEDS of the ministry before the Lord (find out more at www.buildinglivingstones.blogspot.com) , who supplies abundantly, and lastly, DONATIONS are always a blessing (at www.wribrazil.com/livingstones.html).  

The cost of the Living Stones program is approximately $1 a day per child. Please pray about supporting a child with a monthly donation of $30 (www.wribrazil.com/foundationbuilder) Once 60 people are committed, we can begin to plant a new Living Stones program and church in a community.