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Song of Thanksgiving

Written by Jim Cantelon on . Posted in Blog.

Kathy and I have heard a lot of praise to the Lord from the lips of the suffering. It is truly astonishing and humbling to hear the voices of hundreds of villagers singing songs of thanksgiving even in the midst of constant disease and death. Over 25 years of WOW’s ministry to afflicted orphans and widows we’ve heard thousands of voices raised in praise in village after village.

Perhaps the most poignant of all was the faint and faltering spontaneous hymn of praise sung by a young dying widow as she lay on a blanket outside her mud hut one hot day in Malawi. Her voice quavered as she sang in her native tongue, “I praise you Father for your faithful love. I praise you Father for receiving me to yourself. I come to you now.” Then she breathed an almost inaudible prayer, “Please care for my children…” Two hours later she had passed into the Father’s presence. I wept.

Thanksgiving. What a concept! We will be thanking God this Fall for our abundance, celebrating his faithfulness around tables groaning with food. But what about thanksgiving when you’re living on less than 2 dollars a day and you’re dying from HIV&AIDS, cholera, COVID, or some opportunistic diseases like pneumonia or tuberculosis? How does one find the energy, let alone the faith, to lift one’s voice in a song of thanksgiving under such pressing adversity? There is no way that this can happen apart from supernatural strength. I believe such songs are evidence of the Spirit of Christ within.

King David was a master poet whose psalms are bathed in the spirit of thanksgiving. There are so many examples. Here’s one:

“The Lord is my strength and shield.
I trust him with all my heart.
He helps me,
and my heart is filled with joy.
I burst out in songs of
thanksgiving.”
Ps. 28:7

As founder and president of WOW, my heart is bursting with thanksgiving! First of all, I’m thankful for God’s unfailing love. Secondly, I’m thankful for the champion ministries with whom we partner. Let me give you an overview.

Kyle and Nicky Tolman
CROSS CONNECT – South Africa

Kyle and Nicky Tolman are founders and leaders of this vital ministry to orphans and widows in the so called “irregular settlements” on the outer fringes of Johannesburg. With WOW’s support they have created “House Nehemiah”, a home of rescue for abandoned children and abused young women. They have won the respect of local government, police, and social services officials to the point that they are often asked to be first responders to reports of children in crisis. Everyone knows they represent the Lord in all they do. They and their staff of 35 are truly “salt and light”.

Pastor Helmut and Esther Reutter
CHRESO – Lusaka, Zambia

Pastor Helmut and Esther Reutter are founders and leaders of this amazing ministry. Starting from scratch 30 years ago with a focus on the HIV&AIDS crisis, their hearts broken by the fatal consequences of this disease, they established a humble clinic in Lusaka where Esther’s nursing training was put to work. Helmut, an entrepreneurial pastor of the highest degree, got to work building adjunct ministries. A church, a radio station, a school, a television station, a university (!) fully accredited by the Zambian Ministry of Education, an orphanage, several rural clinics, and most recently a hospital (at Victoria Falls) and an extension of the university in the Copperbelt region. They are seen by Zambians as a national treasure and by us too. WOW provides funding for the purchase of medications, solar power for their rural clinics, and bicycles for their volunteer Home Based Care (HBC) workers. They are saints of God and we’re humbled and blessed to have worked with them since 2001.

Pastor Eric and Joyce Mwambelo
IMPACT COMMUNITY OUTREACH – Kabwe, Zambia

Pastor Eric Mwambelo founded and leads ICO with unfailing love for the orphans and widows of central Zambia. With a faithful and talented ministry team, he is literally changing the culture of the town of Kabwe and its surrounding communities of the sick and dying. A key component in ICO’s outreach is a remarkable farm called “Rob’s Farm”, named after our son-in-law who suffered an accidental death while building a Bible college in Kitwe. The farm is a wonder to everyone in the region. It’s like an oasis of abundance growing and providing organic vegetables for ICO’s orphans and widows. It is doing so well that the excess produce is sold in the market, the profits providing the cost of farm maintenance. Eric’s church is bursting with thankful people and is the mother church to a number of new church plants. We’ve partnered with ICO since 2002 and we’re thankful.

Chief Theresa Malila
SOMEBODY CARES – Malawi

I met Theresa Malila, founder and leader of SCM, in 2002 when I was preaching at a church service in Lilongwe, Malawi. In response to my call to the Church to practise both righteousness and justice, she asked me to pray with her about a call from the Lord to quit her well-paid government work and start a ministry to AIDS afflicted orphans and widows. True to that call she began a ministry that now has national attention and respect. Today SCM has a huge national footprint incorporating HBC, feeding programs, schools, gender based violence mitigation, safe houses for abused girls and young women, Bible training for young adults, and various social and paralegal interventions in concert with law enforcement authorities. On top of all this, she is also a regional chief and a dedicated pastor. When we’re with her and her well-educated and committed staff, we feel we’re walking with angels. We’re thankful that we can both inspire and help fund this world class ministry.

Ed Dickson
LOADS OF LOVE – Ukraine

We also partner with LOADS OF LOVE in Ukraine, providing food and clothing for women widowed by the war and their fatherless children. Ed Dickson has a humble spirit and a servant’s heart. His compassion for the displaced widows and orphans in Ukraine is truly inspiring. We’re honoured to support his ministry.

And we have another partnership with a humble church providing vital food, medicines, and general poverty interventions for street orphans and widows in a country that shall remain unnamed because of national government pressure.

Needless to say I find myself singing songs of thanksgiving in my early morning prayer times each day. It is such a privilege, and a humbling one at that, to partner with saints of God faithfully preaching and living the Gospel.

Finally, let me say it LOUD & CLEAR, I’m so thankful for YOU and your faithful support of WOW. You are PILLARS for us.

I’m thankful that you’re singing songs of thanksgiving too!

Many blessings,

Jim Cantelon – President

WOW – Working for Orphans & Widows

I’ll Help Bless WOW’s Champion Partners Today!

Holding up Their Hands

Written by Jim Cantelon on . Posted in Blog.

“But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me!” Matthew 14:30

In Exodus 17 we read the story of the battle between Israel and the Amalekites championed by three men in their eighties! Moses (80 years), his brother Aaron (83 years), and their brother-in-law Hur (must have been of similar age), stood on a hill above the conflict. Moses with the “staff of God” raised over his head and his brother and brother-in-law holding up his arms as they tired, saw the Lord vanquish the enemy with Joshua leading Israel’s army. It was a classic biblical example of God’s power enabling those who pray, support, and fight in the cause of righteousness and justice.

WOW is currently engaged in a battle for righteousness and justice, but not with a temporal enemy. We’re facing a war with the one who the Bible says “seeks to kill and destroy”. His weapon is HIV & AIDS. Ours is the combination of prayer, funding, and faithfulness.

We’ve fought this battle for 25 years, and with the arrival of very expensive yet vital Antiretroviral (ARV) medications 20 years ago, funded by PEPFAR – President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief – there has been real progress. Now that USAID support for PEPFAR has been suspended our ministry partners in Africa and India are in crisis. We may be back to the early days when AIDS was always fatal.

Here’s the latest from one of our champion pastors:

“The last few weeks have been a true roller coaster. We were told to stop all programs supported by the US government but we put a small group of our dedicated staff together to keep serving the most pressing needs. Our Kabwe site has lost all its USAID support so it’s now permanently closed. Our Livingstone and Lusaka clinics have been allowed to continue until September 2025. We are urgently looking for ways to keep the ministry going but so far we have no solution. One third of our support for general pharmaceuticals (dealing with opportunistic infections) has been discontinued due to recently revealed Zambian government corruption. Thus we have added stress. We may soon be stymied.”

Rev Helmut Reutter, Founder and President
CHRESO ministries Zambia

I’m hearing similar expressions of deep concern from all of our champion ministry partners in Zambia, South Africa, Malawi, and India.

These “salt of the earth” champions are “Jesus’ hands extended” to the “least of these”. Like Moses’ extended hands they are growing weary. They need an Aaron and a Hur.

WOW continues to provide the pharma and selenium funding, an integral part of the Home Based Care (HBC) ministry with the weekly visits to thousands of people under our partners’ care. WOW has increased food support by 35% to our partner “Somebody Cares” in Malawi where we’re feeding 8000 orphans, widows, and grannies each month, and we’ve funded solar electric systems to ICO (Impact Community Outreach) and CHRESO in Zambia. Now Somebody Cares needs a solar system as well.

As never before in our 25 year history we need “Aaron and Hur” to hold up the hands of our humble, faithful ministry friends. Their sense of urgency is palpable. WOW is a proven champion of champions. Together we have and will continue to pray, support, and fight the good fight.

The analogy may be a bit of a stretch but I see WOW as “Moses”, you as “Aaron and Hur”, and our on the ground champions as “Joshua”.

In faithful concert we will prevail! Ultimately “the battle is the Lord’s”.

Thank you for holding up our hands.

Yes, I want to hold up their hands!

Jim Cantelon – President

WOW – Working for Orphans & Widows

Shine Your Light

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In the greatest sermon ever preached, Jesus said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”
 
WOW takes this as a mandate. That’s why we, together with you, are shining a light in some of the darkest places on earth. WOW is a team effort, both overseas and here in North America. We “work together for good” and for God. And we thank you!
 
Here’s an overview for your encouragement. I hope it will inspire you.
 
Jim

Chief and Pastor Theresa Malila is founder and leader of Somebody Cares Malawi (SCM), a ministry to dying orphans and widows. Founded over twenty years ago after Theresa’s response to a challenge I gave at a church in Lilongwe, SCM has become one of the most highly respected NGOs in the nation. Its comprehensive ministry is massive. Their programs include the community support of 1500 orphaned children, the weekly feeding of 3500 elderly widows, the rescue of scores of girls who have survived gender-based violence, the training of 1700 youth in community care, and 16 evangelism outreaches in the past six months seeing 1000 decisions for Christ. WOW is humbled and privileged to help fund this mighty ministry. 

Pastor Eric Mwambelo founded and leads Impact Community Outreach (ICO) in central Zambia, Kabwe. This vital ministry has been focused on afflicted orphans and widows for over two decades. The challenges are huge, especially over the past few years as a perfect storm of adversity – Covid 19, Cholera, and Drought – has ravaged the already suffering HIV & AIDS victims. An outstanding agricultural project called “Rob’s Farm”, purchased and developed with funds from WOW, is successfully growing food for desperate patients. The farm also serves as a center for the training of future pastors and care workers. Once again, the “salt and light” impact in Jesus’ name is huge. Hundreds of “the least of these” have found hope and healing in the midst of the storm. 

Pastors Helmut and Esther Reutter are the founders and directors of CHRESO in Lusaka, a nationally recognized leader in the care of orphans and widows afflicted by HIV & AIDS. With WOW’s help, CHRESO provides clinical health care to thousands of people in both urban and rural areas. WOW’s focus is in the supply of pharmaceuticals for these afflicted souls. In the rural mobile clinics alone, we fund ministry to 5000 patients every month. This is faithfully done as the compassionate “hands and feet” of Jesus, bringing hope to the hopeless. 

Pastor Kyle Tolman founded and leads CrossConnect (CC), a ministry to orphaned and/or abandoned children in South Africa’s West Rand, northwest of Johannesburg. CC’s reach is to over 3000 impoverished homes in that area. From House Nehemiah, their “home of mercy” purchased and funded by WOW, they deliver comprehensive and compassionate care to desperately needy children. Social services and police are in weekly contact asking for CC’s help. They are truly “salt and light” in South Africa and WOW is privileged to be a key partner as they reach out in Jesus’ name. 

It’s been three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. The suffering has been brutal. In the midst of this crisis several Ukrainian churches have banded together to provide food and shelter for homeless and hungry people and they have appealed to WOW’s partner ministry, “Loads of Love”, headed by pastor Ed Dickson, for help. In the past few months, we’ve funded the feeding of over 7000 women and children. During that time, we’re told that 2800 of these wonderful people have decided to follow Jesus. Salt and light in action!

A major focus is destitute women and their fatherless children. We provide a meal a day to scores of them living in the scorching heat on the streets of the sweltering slums. Computer classes and training in tailoring are a welcome opportunity. A creative income generation project saw the purchase of “food trucks”- rickshaws outfitted with a bbq and basic foodstuffs – enabling women to cook food for street people and make a few rupees to provide for their children. Some of those children have blood cancers and/or HIV and tuberculosis. Medical support was needed and with your help it was provided. Each and every one of these precious souls is aware that the love of Christ has come to them via faithful volunteers from a Christian church. The dark night of their stressful lives gives way to the light of God’s love. 

Yes, Jim, I want to Shine My Light!

Working Together for 14 Times the Impact

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“Tomorrow you are going to Chibolya. The driver will pick you up at 9:30.” 

Kathy and I had just flown to Lusaka, Zambia to spend a few days with WOW’s ministry champion CHRESO, our partner for 25 years.

Chibolya… “Where’s that?” we asked.

“It’s in the centre of Lusaka,” they said. “It’s the most dangerous place in the city, maybe in all of Zambia. Most Lusakans avoid it. And they would probably warn you to stay away because you’ll be seen as rich foreigners.”

“But you work there,” Kathy responded.

“We do, by God’s grace. He protects us from the drug dealers, hostile gangs, and disease. It may be one of the most violent, virulent slums in Africa but we felt we needed to have a presence there. A light in the darkness! (We’ve not taken you in the past because of the danger. But we think you need to see where WOW’s meds are being prescribed and delivered.)”

As we drove into Chibolya the next morning, the street was so narrow our vehicle’s side mirrors were almost scraping the market stalls on either side. And it was our first experience driving on a street “paved” with compressed layers of garbage, the acrid smell adding another dimension to the atmosphere.

Apart from mainly curious but occasionally hostile looks from the teeming crowds making way for our truck, and shouts of “mzungu!” (“white person”) from the children, we made it to the clinic without incident. It was hidden behind a cement security wall and a heavy steel gate. It looked like a prison compound.

The clinic was a simple structure of bare cement blocks and a low, flat roof, unglazed windows with rusted burglar bars. It housed two-and-a-half dimly lit rooms. The reception desk, a small pharmacist’s table, and a few chairs were the only furniture in the main room, and an examining table behind a curtain was in the back room. The registrar, the pharmacist, a nurse practitioner, a medical officer, and five angelic volunteers comprised the staff. There were about ten patients crowded inside.

The registrar worked with pen and paper, the pharmacist with a few boxes of medications (supplied by WOW), and the nurse practitioner and medical officer examined and prescribed treatment with minimal equipment but great expertise and a loving touch. The volunteers (I do mean “angels”) brought in the critically ill patients from the streets. They knew there was risk each time they left the clinic to find the sick and the dying.  

As we took it all in Kathy and I felt we were on holy ground. 

To this point our exposure to CHRESO’s medical ministry had been limited to visiting their mobile medical clinics in the remote rural areas of southern Zambia where WOW’s pharmaceutical supplies were/are being administered to 5000 patients per month. But now we were seeing the urban side of our ministry and the overall impact was/is humbling and inspiring.

There’s no doubt the Lord has led us to “the least of these”.

As you know, once a year WOW challenges you with the opportunity to fund life-giving medications for our champion partners in Africa. We’re able to do so in partnership with Health Partners International Canada (HPIC), a marvellous Christian ministry who source their pharmaceuticals from the major pharma companies. And it’s all done with matching dollars.

This year we’re so grateful to the Lord that we can offer a 14:1 match!

One dollar from you becomes 14 dollars of medications for humble, godly ministry to the poorest of the poor. The impact is incalculable.

We, of course, do not take you for granted. We know your gifts are prompted by the Holy Spirit and are bathed in compassion. We truly are “labourers together”.

So we thank you for your heart and commitment to extending the hands of Jesus to these needy ones. They are his children.

In conclusion, I’m reminded of the scripture that declares, “He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will repay him for what he has done” (Proverbs 19:17).

May the Lord bless you for your compassion and kindness.

Jim.

One Hand Up. One Hand Down.

Written by Jim Cantelon on . Posted in Blog.

Kathy and I will be in Africa as you read this letter.

We try to be there at least twice each year in compliance with government “monitoring & evaluation” requirements. But we find it’s so very important to be there to meet with our champion ministries and their orphans and widows both to inspire and to be updated in person. Every visit, however, we wonder who’s inspiring whom.

The widows inspire us with their child-like trust in God even as they live in abject poverty and disease.

They love Kathy especially. Whenever we enter a dusty rural village the children gather about her and follow wherever she goes. Sometimes a group of them will reach up and take her hands as she walks. One time I saw four children on each hand!

This total trust in “Momma Kattie”, as they call her, has often reminded me of a little song we used to sing as children in Sunday School:

And the picture of their hands reaching up and Kathy’s reaching down captures it.

We are just like them in so many ways. We may not be impoverished or diseased but we ARE ultimately  totally dependant on the Lord. This may be why Jesus said we’re to be like “little children” in our trust and obedience. We reach up even as our Father reaches down.

This hand-in-hand relationship is what the Father seeks.  He has taken the initiative. He has reached down. And his love captures our heart – so we reach up.

You need to know that our entire ministry with WOW is predicated on this truth. The orphans and widows in their desperate plight are reaching up to the Lord by reaching up for our hands. We too reach up to the Lord and down to them. As we do so we see ourselves as your hands extended to them in the name of Jesus. This truly is a partnership between heaven and earth.

So it’s one hand up and one hand down. Our faithful offerings  of our time, talent, and treasure are the evidence  of our trust and obedience as we humbly seek to do His will.

We truly value you! You are proven friends of “the least of these”. We’re so grateful for your support.

It’s Something Extraordinary!

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Once a year WOW does something extraordinary!

In cooperation with a proven Christian global organization, “Health Partners International”, we are able to provide desperately needed medications to our African ministries at a 7:1 match. This, of course, means that our donated funds are magnified 7 times, as is the volume of pharma we are able to ship.

One of the areas where we administer these vital medications is in the Siavonga region of southern Zambia. Situated on the shores of the man-made Lake Kariba and bordering Zimbabwe, it is a semi-arid, harsh, remote area thinly populated by the historic Tonga people. It is unserviced and impoverished in every way. Thankfully, with our Lusaka-based ministry partner CHRESO, we are engaged in vital health care for approximately 5,000 of “the least of these” every month.

A saintly nurse practitioner named “Suitebertha” (pronounced Sweet-Bertha), with a skeleton staff and a well equipped 3 ton box van, does a circuit to 27 remote, rough hewn clinics. Faithfully, week after week, she and her driver-cum-triage nurse- cum-orderly-cum-mechanic process up to 150 people a day. She is truly an “angel of mercy” to her suffering clients. The people gather at these humble way stations as dawn breaks and patiently await her arrival. A cheer erupts as they see the dust trail of the van on the horizon and they greet Suitebertha with joy and not a few shouts of praise to God.

Every patient has a file and every medication is recorded, as is their current health status. It’s a totally efficient operation. We travelled to Siavonga last September and it was humbling for Kathy and me to witness the relief and gratitude on the people’s faces. As they gave thanks to the Lord so did we!

The medications we are able to provide are the “over-the-counter” products like pain killers, cold medicines, topical skin salves, antiseptics, etc. – all of which are unavailable apart from what we can provide. Our costs also include shipping, which can range from $16,000 to $20,000 for the air transport of meds overseas.

So with gratitude in my heart I encourage you to join us in this extraordinary opportunity to give a generous gift at a $7 – $1 ratio to the Lord’s dearly loved Tonga orphans and widows in Siavonga.

Together we have been faithfully ministering to thousands of orphans and widows in Jesus’ name for 23 years. What a privilege, what an honor! Such a blessing to bless others and hear them, from their hearts, give thanks and glory to the Lord.

 

 

Light a Candle in the Darkness

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I don’t think any of us of the post-Second World War generation have ever experienced such dark times. There’s no need to list the litany of troubles facing us from natural disasters to pandemics and brutal regional wars. Our world is in a dark place.

But as tough as it is for us, living in the relative peace and abundance of North America, think of the pain experienced by the poor and war torn. As a supporter of WOW you’re invested in their plight.Whether it’s orphans and widows in sub-Saharan Africa and India afflicted with two pandemics – HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, or in Ukraine subjected to “Putin’s War” and fleeing in their millions, we are in a small but committed way lighting a candle in the thick darkness.

Our little light is shining in Ukraine where we are assisting a network of churches caring for desperate orphans and widows by providing food. So basic yet so necessary. Your response to our “Ukraine Rescue” appeal has been amazing!

Sexual abuse (Gender Based Violence or GBV) of young widows and girl orphans is a grim ongoing darkness in many of the countries in which we work. A few years ago we funded the construction of a safe house in Malawi for these vulnerable females through our partner “Somebody Cares”. The home is called the “Home of Mercy”. Scores of abused women and girls have been given refuge there. It is is now a walled compound of peace and serenity and has gained national prominence as a Christian response to GBV.

It has reached capacity, however, and there is an urgent need to expand its facilities. One of our long term supporters has just offered to provide half of the needed funds as WOW raises the other half – a TWO to ONE MATCH. The overall cost will be in the range of $100,000.

Here’s an opportunity for us to light another candle and dispel the darkness of GBV in Malawi.

It’s simply a candle, but as the old saying states, “It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness”. Yes we are that candle. Together we are chasing the night shadows away. Will you help?

I’m sure you will. In Jesus’ name we will light the flame.

Summer is upon us. Ours will probably be a time of rest and relaxation but let us not forget the unrest of others. Without our help, theirs will be “a summer of discontent”.

I want to thank you for your faithfulness. And for remembering WOW. You are pillars!

Let’s keep the candle burning.

Many blessings,

Jim Cantelon
Founder & President

 

 

The Cost of Survival

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As I sat down to write this letter to you my WhatsApp pinged with a message from Pastor Kyle Tolman,
our partner champion in South Africa. Read it and weep…

 

The United Nations designates orphaned children raising children as “Child Headed Households”(CHH). We care for scores of these children in South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, and India. They are “at risk” in every conceivable way. They break your heart. Truly they need “a Father to the fatherless and defender of widows” (Ps. 68:5). And the Lord calls his children to take up this challenge in his name.

WOW has been faithfully doing so for 21 years. Literally tens of thousands of orphans and widows have been cared for in our Home Based Care programs administered and championed by our vast network of pastor/champions and their local church volunteers. It’s a great story of God’s love shining through his servants to those lost in desperate need.

The Covid-19 pandemic has added more than an edge of urgency to this ministry, not only in terms of added sickness and death, but also in terms of the cost of providing basic commodities (cornmeal, cooking oil, sugar, blankets, medications, etc). The rise in prices for these basics is in the range of 300%. Needless to say this puts our partners under enormous financial stress.

“Cost of Living” is now “Cost of Survival”.

 

This is not a gimmick. This is brutal reality for our thousands of orphans and widows, especially for those humble mud hut households where children are raising themselves. Their “cost of survival” is now 300% higher than it was before Covid-19 began ravaging our world.

We are more than able to reach into our abundant resources and reach out to a world of suffering. WOW is one of many ministries doing a great job. But we are in relationship with you. You trust us and we trust you. This is strength. Strength to meet the challenge of the “cost of survival” for our vulnerable little brothers and sisters in need.

 

June 2021 Update

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I answered a WhatsApp call in the early hours of the morning. It was Prem, our church partner in Chennai, India. He confirmed my worst fears: “The pandemic is ravaging the city. The infection rates are soaring and people are dying. But, a wonderful thing has happened, Pastor! The state government has reached out to us as a trusted Charity and have urged us to provide “COVID Kits” and “Medical Kits” for those under our care. Can you help us?” What could I say? “Of course we will help!”

We’re all too aware that the COVID-19 pandemic is proving relentless. Here in the West, with the rollout of vaccines, there is incremental traction against it but in most of the developing world the crisis is growing exponentially. WOW’s fields of ministry are right in the middle of it, especially India.

 

We’re a small but trusted and effective player on the world scene with a footprint that includes South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, and South India. Our focus, as you know, is providing and equipping local church-based volunteers in an effective Home Based Care ministry. The “clients” are at-risk orphans and widows, all vulnerable to what is now a double pandemic of HIV&AIDS and COVID-19.

 

We have for several years been providing medications (non-prescriptive – painkillers, ointments, cough syrups and cold and flu relief) sourced through our terrific partnership with Health Partners International.

Once a year we do a 7 – 1 match, one dollar providing seven dollars worth of meds

What your gift funds, of course, is symptomatic relief (we cannot provide vaccines or anti-retroviral drugs), but it makes a huge difference for the afflicted!

We are again sending a shipment to our partners in Africa. Indian law makes it near impossible to ship meds, so we’re sending funds for our church partner in Chennai to purchase locally sourced supply.

I know you are motivated to give when your gift is multiplied Seven Times!

All this is done in the name of Jesus. It’s humbling and gratifying to hear “the least of these” not only rejoice but thank God for WOW’s medical intervention.

I thank you for your prayerful and generous involvement in this vital work.

Blessings,

Jim Cantelon – Founder/President
WOW – “Working for Orphans & Widows”