"Egg"cellent News!

If you have been keeping up with our monthly newsletters, you have already heard by now that we have chickens in our village. They started as tiny chicks and have now grown to be full-size, egg-bearing hens, which was “egg”zactly our prayer for them. They are now producing many eggs, giving the children and moms in the village another variety of food to eat. Considering the “egg”cellent health benefits of this incredible, edible food, adding fresh eggs to their diets will help the children grown up healthy and strong. For “egg”zample, studies have shown that eggs are great for eye health, provide choline for brain and heart health, and nourish the body with protein, essential amino acids, healthy fat, and vitamin D. The healthy nutrients in eggs are no yolk! In addition to providing a healthy food source to add to the diets of the children and house moms, the chicken project has also been great for education. The children are eager to learn about chickens and eggs. They will read just about any book that has a chicken in it, which is “egg”citing news for their English reading instructors. Plus, they are learning the trade of raising chickens, which could be helpful in their adult life in both opening career options and feeding their families. After all, you can’t put all your eggs in one basket! There’s one thing for sure: if there was an “egg”xam, the children would all earn an A+. In many ways, the “egg”stra benefits of the chicken project, like being a learning tool, have been as rewarding as the healthy benefits. Primarily, the children are the ones who take care of the chickens, at their request. They feed, water, and clean after the chickens, but the most fun part is collecting the eggs. The children get giddy when they find that the number of eggs produced increases each week. They use their critical thinking to “egg”speriment with feeding times and partitions to see if it affects output and talk about what they can do “nest” time to help. Thank you to all who have donated to make the chicken project a success! What were once such tiny little birds are making a big difference in our children’s physical and mental growth! Well, that’s all yolks! :-)

Because of Calvary,

Jackson Senyonga

Christian Life Ministries

Shakey Shakey, Wimpy Wimpy, Chicken Chicken

Thanks to a generous donation from a sponsor and ministry supporter, we now have some new residents at the Seeta orphan village: chickens! These chickens will eventually produce eggs, and in turn the eggs will be distributed to each of the orphan homes.

We have been told that the children are really enjoying having the chickens on site. They have really stepped up to help raise these chickens by caring for them by providing food and water. The only problem we are running into is that the children are madly in love with the chickens and don’t want to leave them. The children will gather around the chickens whenever they get a chance whether it be before school, after school, or before they go to bed. While this doesn’t seem like a problem at first, getting them to return to class can be challenging when they are pining over a “chick.”

We have nearly 90 homes so you can only imagine the amount of eggs we will need to provide for them all. We have dreams for this to grow significantly, and we need your help in order to make this happen. But, in order to have more eggs, we need more chickens, and in order to have more chickens, we will first need to build a larger facility than the one we have currently. We have approximately 150 chickens presently. We will quickly outgrow our space and need to build a larger space with electricity. Then, after that is completed, we can get more chickens. This is one of our steps to helping our orphan village become more self-sufficient, and we are also teaching children not only the art of farming, but the responsibility of caring for God’s creatures.

We would like to say thanks to Gary & Cheryl Sargent who have made it possible for us to purchase these chickens. What has started as a small project to provide eggs has evolved into a learning tool resulting in hundreds of smiles daily! Thank you!

Blessings,

Jackson Senyonga

Christian Life Ministries