Volume 3, Issue 3 December 2019

Children´s Mission Philippines Hills of Foundation Inc.

with the Lord for the Children

To our dear friends and partners, Let we thank and greet you this holiday season for your amazing generosity which has demonstrated the love of Jesus to the thousands beneficiaries of Children’s Mission Philippines. The way you have consistently give and fervently pray has been a constant source of inspiration and has spur us to carry on the work. Thank you indeed. As we celebrate this season, let there be joy in our heart as we remember that Jesus was born into poverty, born in a manger. But this Christmas story gives us hope that God is with us. This Christmas let us not forget to share Jesus love to these children let us help them fulfill their God given potential. A merry Christmas to one and all.

Joy to the world this Christmas!

Open Heart Children’s Village FAMILY DAY

On November 15, 2019, the Open

Heart Children’s Village (OHCV) cele-

brated FAMILY DAY. It was celebrated

not just as this is a Nationwide cele-

bration but to give the OHCV Chil-

dren, Houseparent’s, House Aunts

and OHCV Office Staff a chance to cel-

ebrate the meaning of being a family

and to have a quality time among the

whole family of OHCV. The celebra-

tion was started through opening

prayer by the Village Director and fol-

lowed by the inspiring message about the importance of a family. More so, the children, other House-

mother and House Aunt from every houses showcased their talents through presentations like singing

and dancing. There were also a lot of fun games facilitated by the Social Worker and other Houseparent

and House Aunt everyone enjoyed it so much. Of course, children who participated in the games re-

ceived their prizes. After the fun games and other activities, there were also a time for a happy tummy.

Variety of delicious snacks prepared by the houseparents from every houses and OHCV Office were

served for everyone. As gesture of being one family everyone joined together in cleaning the surround-

ings after the activity.

SCIENCE CLUB presents “SCIFASHION

Oral Care

The Day. Most awaited among CMP OHCV students and even parents. It is indeed a day allowing children experience an encounter with the dentist, letting them enjoy their oral care thru fluoride and oral prophylaxis application. They even had a proper tooth brushing demonstration by 2 volunteer teach-ers from Sweden prior to the procedure. That same day children from children’s village also had their dental care appointment wherein a dental follow-up care is rendered among children with pre-vious recommendation from the dentist. They also received dental check-up, cleaning, fluoride and oral prophylaxis, tooth extraction, tooth filling and seal-ant. An improvement has been noted by the dentist among our children with regards to their oral health. Every six months’ oral check-up is provided among

our beneficiaries in children’s village to ensure continuous prevention as well as treatment. Dental care is only acquired by those who are

able to afford this expensive oral procedure but

with the help of volunteer dentist we are able

to provide a continuous oral care service among

CMP children.

Children’s Mission Philippines School Shining

Light Center held an event called “SCIENCE CLUB

SCIFASHION 2019” last October 25, 2019. Every

participants were instructed to customized an

outfit by using recycled materials like plastic, gar-

bage bag, rubber, and many recyclable materials.

With the help of their parents and family members the participants

were able to produce an outfit which they ramp on the catwalk, it

was all unique and remarkable costume made of recycled materials.

SCIFASHION…. It is the collaboration of Science and Fashion. Where

in science benefit from fashion by providing a new language of public

outreach, while in fashion will open a new world of inspiration. It is

also creating something unknown to introduce change and innova-

tion that never seen before. SCIFASHION is being adventurous, cre-

ating stylish beautiful design from an array waste product.

They could do a lot more to use eco-friendly materials more general-

ly, It’s also a learning experience to the Science club member to per-

form in front of the people wearing them creative costume.

Last December 4 and 5, 2019, Child Development Program conducted a kid’s camp with the theme “CONQUER”. 150 campers ages 8-14 years old from churches within Rodriguez Rizal and Caloocan areas came and experienced fun, joy and additional learnings through Bible stories, team building activities and a lot more.

We had reached our aim of telling the children that we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us from Roman 8:37.

As we make it more simple, the flow was focused on asking the child’s own way of dealing with their life challenges.

Using different kinds of illustration from the Bible through the characters of Gideon, Ester, Elijah, Mesach, Shadrach and Abednego, campers realized that whatever situation comes their way they had the assurance that God sees them and He will help them in conquering it. Their respond is to trust God and His own process.

As a result, these children surrendered their lives to Jesus and accepted Him as thier personal Lord and Savior.

On our last day, we

celebrated the victory of

God’s activity. To God be the

glory!

Conquer

CMP Newsletter" is a publication of Children's Mission Phils. Hills of Grace

Foundation Inc. (CMP). CMP is a child caring agency under the Scandinavian

Children's Mission Philippines, Inc. and was established in 1984. CMP has

several centers that cater to children in need of special protection. It is

duly licensed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development

(DSWD) and a member of the Association of Child Caring Agencies of the

Philippines (ACCAP).

CMP head office is located at No. 14 F. Rodriguez cor. E. Rodriguez Sr. Brgy. San Jose Rodriguez, 1860 Rizal.

Editorial Team: Zenaida C. Ablang Bernadette C. Megano Catherine Ramos

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Inspiring things – significant success story

ULE conducted the orientation for the new group in Southville 8 A San Isidro area to 15 participants. It is composed of 15 mothers mostly are stay at home mothers. As we talked to them why do they want to be a member of ULE they said that they want to learn something new not just to a plain mother doing house-hold chores and taking care of chil-dren.

The new group got inspired by Pag-asa group in the community. They also want to be united and active with the activities that we have for the members of ULE. The group named them Friendship group.

IMELDA N. OPONDA, a 61 years old widower is a mother of five (5) children from San Roque, Quezon City. She went abroad to be a Domestic Helper in three countries from 1988 to 1998. Carrying many bad experiences like almost got raped by his employer and her children were sent to Boys Town in Marikina made her decide to stay. Also, the money she had earned was used to send her mother to the hospital but died and left her in debt. They were relocated here in Kasiglahan, San Jose when their place under-goes clearing by the local government. She became a single mother then when her husband died in the year 2006 that left her caring for those 5 kids. Since then, she does all she could to raise them. So, to support her family, she started making rugs to earn a living.