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MEXICO Seeds of Hope International Partnerships was able to begin a sand filter factory in Tecate, Mexico. This represents an exciting partnership between four organizations coming together to help the needy in that area. Seeds of Hope trained Roger Sachs with Freedom Crusade in making sand filters. He has had a relationship with Ernesto Hernandez with ICRC for over 20 years. In July we joined together to train and establish a sand filter crew who will be delivering sand filters along the Mexican border from Mexicali to Tijuana. Ernesto has a well-established ministry helping to rehabilitate children and adults who have been in trouble with the law. His team was very excited to get this training because it's giving them tools to reach out to others who are in desperate need. This project was able to start because of generous donations from Thirst Relief International. We are very excited about the establishment of this ministry.
	MAPALO RESOURCE CENTER The Boise Vineyard has enabled SHIP and the Mapalo Vineyard to see the first steps of what we dreamed of and labored towards for years. The Mapalo Resource Center will be a place for hygiene and sanitation trainings, sewing, literacy, and agriculture classes. Two teams from the Boise Vineyard have been in Zambia, helping our Zambian friends to build the three room building that will be completed by the middle of September. Because the work has been progressing so well, the Boise team will be able to see the classrooms furnished and begin to function. SHIP has been doing classes at this location despite of not having a building but security and consistency have been an issue. Now with the building, there will be desks, books, and sewing machines available so that classes can be held regularly. The Boise Vineyard's vision is to use this as a ministry base for students trained at their Vineyard school of missions, VCOM. Their heart is to see students equiping local Zambians to addressed by this community of almost 30,000 children at risk. The Boise Vineyard leader Tempe McFarlane says of the resource center project: "We are not only building a building, we're building a church... a foundation... a light in the darkness... a place for people to come and be loved. We are helping to plant seeds in fertile soil."
PRAYER REQUESTS: Pray for Kirk Schauer and Roger Sachs as they attend a Vineyard conference in South Africa and then they are in Zambia through the end of September Pray for the provision of more vehicles in Zambia, desperately needed by SHIP to continue our ministry Pray for the Boise teams as they continue to work on the Mapalo resource center Pray for our Zambian director, Francis, who has been suffering from some health problems


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