Think and Do


	Village Workers One of the fruitful ministries in which God uses the village workers is home visits. From January to August 2011, they made around 6,300 home visits to families not visited before, in deprived and remote areas, to present the message of salvation. In addition they made 15,525 follow-up visits to families they had visited before. Following are some testimonies: Om Milad from El Bergaya village in Minya said: "I am married with 3 children. I lost one child, and after that I didn't want to pray or talk with God and I stopped going to church. I had doubts about God's love and justice. I used to ask all the time why God took my son. What is the reason? But through the regular visit of Think and Do's workers, and hearing the word of God and realizing that God is good and God is love, my thoughts and mind have changed and I felt like God has washed my heart with His word from any accusations, complaints, misunderstanding and grief. Thanks be to God." "My name is Ayman Gamal from Mergreis village in Assiut. I am married and have a son. I used to beat my wife and insult her very badly. One of Think and Do's workers visited me and told me about God's word regarding respecting my wife, and that my deeds didn't glorify God. On that day, I repented and God started to deal with me."
	Female headed households The staff serving in the ministry to female headed households were very encouraged when they visited the families in order to follow them up to see if they need any help. Following are testimonies: Christine is a widow from Rofaeel village in the Minya governorate. She was the neediest widow when we were choosing the widows in the beginning of the project. She started a small project of renting dresses for weddings and engagement ceremonies. The project has succeeded, and she decided to give a tenth of the profits (LE 90 monthly) to share in the ministry to widows and sick people. When the staff visited Somaia, fromEledr village in the Assiut governorate, she expressed her happiness with the small project she started which is raising chickens. She said: "I started the project with 20 chicks and now I have 30 hens which produce 17 eggs daily. I made an agreement with a merchant to buy the eggs from me for a good price. I use the money to meet my family’s needs, and save some money as I am planning to extend my project.”

	Children’s ministry On 9 and 16 September the children’s ministry held day events for marginalized children aged from 6 to 13 years old, from 26 different churches in 7 poor areas in Cairo. The total number who attended the 2 days was 431 children. The programme included an evangelistic play presented by "Fun team", songs with actions, and teaching on good patterns of behaviour. Each child received a school bag, some school supplies (a pencil, a ruler, an eraser) , a hairbrush, a mirror, a toothbrush, toothpaste, a set of underwear, a training suit and a pair of trainers.

	Preschool ministry On 29 September the preschool ministry celebrated the graduation of the fifth generation of preschool teachers. Following are some quotes from trainees: Amal said: "In the training, I was very excited in the "God the Creator" session. God opened my eyes to realize that God created me in a perfect way because He loves me. After this teaching I prayed in tears and was very sorry for the long years I lived without realizing this truth, and I decided to live the rest of my life enjoying my relationship with God the great Creator who loves me, and with His great creatures. I was also very sad when I found out that I had followed wrong methods with my own children, which led to a broken relationship. I used to feel that there is a wide gap between us. I prayed and decided to work on myself in order to rebuild this relationship. I am very happy because they felt a change in me and they expressed their happiness with this change in our relationship. I was dead but now I am alive in Christ.' Vivian said: 'In the training I learned that the way we treat children from 3 to 6 years has a great impact on their personality, which appears clearly when they became adults. In this session God reminded me of some things that happened in my childhood and had a bad impact on my personality now, such as fear. I prayed that God would help me to get rid of these results and to give me wisdom in dealing with children in the preschool.



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