Every holiday season, Surprised by Hope launches its 100
Christmas Dollies campaign and the most commonly remembered message is that
children receive dollies for Christmas. But the program is so much more than
that.
Those dollies are indeed a lovely gift but, even more so, the
money raised from dolly sponsorship is gifted to a church who has applied what
they’ve learned from our business teachings toward building their church. The
funds are used to advance their building progress—not to build a church for
them—but to advance what they’ve already started for themselves.
In 2013 Mountain
of Glory Church received iron bars for the windows of their church.
In 2014 Grace
Abundance Church received a partial payment on the land they purchased for
their church.
In 2015 Victory
Christian Center received walls to sit on the foundation they’d built.
This year is no different. PEMA
Church will receive a roof to set atop the walls they’ve constructed. Join
together with our brothers and sisters in Christ and sponsor a dolly to add a
roof to PEMA Church in Mjahareni, Kenya.
We are leaving little bits of love and legacy around East Africa by sharing our resources not with people who are waiting and expecting, but with people who are working hard and completely surprised by hope!
What should you do?
- Select the dollies you love.
- Send $25 for each dolly you chose via PayPal, credit card, or check.
- Pray for the child who receives your dolly and for PEMA Church.
What will Surprised
by Hope do?
- Provide a Christmas meal for PEMA Church families.
- Share a child-sized story of the Nativity.
- Match one dolly per child from that church.
- Send you a picture of the child with your sponsored dolly.
- Provide funds to PEMA Church to build a roof.
- Post follow up stories as the construction proceeds.