I thought I knew a lot about school.
I taught in schools for thirty-five years. With all that practice, in some pretty divergent environments, I figured I knew about schools and kids.
About three years ago I learned about a Christian school called Life Center Academy in New Delhi, India. Math, science, bible classes. It’s a school, right?
Then I learned that twenty-two of this academy’s students are children of women enslaved in the sex trade; they were literally born in a brothel. They live in a HOME OF HOPE with missionaries who rescued them from the horrors of the life in which they were trapped.
The HOME OF HOPE depends on donations to support the kids. It costs about $40 per month to send one child to school (tuition, books, uniforms, supplies). For these children, this home and this education are the barriers between them and being sold into sexual slavery. They have the opportunity to grow up in the freedom of knowing Jesus and becoming all God intended them to be.
I thought I knew about school. Turns out I had a lot to learn.
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FRONT RANGE FREEDOM TOUR supports the kids at the HOME OF HOPE. We’ve built a relationship with this group of children and the missionaries who care for them over the past three years, and we’re excited to see God work in their lives through our efforts.
You can sponsor one of these precious children by supporting the FREEDOM TOUR.
Join us June 17-26 on a 500-mile tour from Cheyenne to Raton Pass.
FREEDOM TOUR PROLOGUE (Saturday, June 11). 30 and 60-mile routes beginning and ending at Timberline Church.
ELEPHANT ROCK (Sunday, June 5). RIDE THE ROCK with Ridgeline Community Church and Freedom Tour.
Create your own HOME OF HOPE CHALLENGE. Walk, cycle, or run. Set your own goal. Log your own miles. Raise funds for the kids at the HOME OF HOPE.
MAKE A DONATION. Click the chain ring and bring HOPE and FREEDOM to the children at the HOME OF HOPE.
$100 pays for one week of all-inclusive holistic care for one child (food, shelter, school, Christian aftercare).
100% of your donations go directly to the HOME OF HOPE. All of our FREEDOM TOUR expenses, including jerseys, are paid by generous community sponsors.
