First Day of School!

The children started back to school the first week of October. The brightly painted wall of the orphanage compound makes a nice backdrop for the children in their school uniforms.

This year the big challenge was starting up a Middle School for the children who completed 6th grade last spring. The children are growing up! Pastor Presume could not afford to send the older girls to public middle school, so they had no choice but to navigate the red tape of starting a new school.

The requirements for a Middle School are more complicated and expensive than an Elementary school. They had to add two more rooms to the school building, plus add more teachers and curriculum. They also need more desks like the one shown in the photo, but Pastor Presume ran out of funds to make all the desks.

Bon Secours does need financial help for desks, curriculum and teachers pay. Please help! You can donate using the PayPal button on the right side. Thank you!!

THE REWARDS

The Bible says in Matthew 10:41 that "He who helps a prophet receives the same reward as a prophet, and whoever helps a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward."

When we help missionaries like Racine Presume who is a policeman, pastor and orphanage director: then God takes notice of what we've done to help.

The Bible mentions helping orphans and needy many times throughout the New Testament, and in James 1 it says that "true religion" is to look after widows and orphans in their distress. There are many charities in the world to choose from, but it's clear that first of all, we need to help the children.