Category: Completed Projects

Completed Projects, Philippines, street children

Pastor Mark’s Family was Robbed! Can You Help?

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Dear Friends – Yesterday, Pastor Mark’s family was robbed! Three laptops and a dvd player were stolen from the church. These laptops have ministry and other important information on them. Without these things, Pastor Mark cannot run ministry! 

To replace the stolen items, it will cost about 1,500 dollars. Can you help cover this need? Pastor Mark and his family would feel so blessed to know people care so deeply about his ministry they want to help! Please pray for their continued protection.

Below is a picture we got  today of the street boys Pastor Mark and his wife took in. Ting Ministries is helping them go to school! These kids are former Muslims who lived on the streets. Now they are going to school, learning job skills, and want to help in the ministry when they get older like Pastor Mark.

To give towards the cost of replacing the stolen items:

You can use the PayPal button on the side of the website or write a check to Ting Ministries at 904 State Drive, Lebanon PA 17042.

To give towards the boys’ school fees:

If you would like to be a monthly sponsor: Email tingministries@comcast.net with your name and mailing address. We will send a sponsorship form for you with a picture and information on the child you would like to help! These sponsorships are 30 dollars and include: monthly school fees and other basic necessities. At 12 dollars a month, only 72 dollars pays for a whole year of school! Please consider what you can give to help!

If you would like to give a one-time donation: Please use the PayPal button at the side of our website. Or, make a check out to Ting Ministries and send it to 904 State Drive, Lebanon, PA 17042. Please specify for Philippines Sponsorship. Thank you

Children's Home, Completed Projects, Orphan Care, South Asia

Update: South Asian Children’s Home Construction Funded and Soon Underway!

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Update: Mach 16, 2017

Message from the Directors – Ting Ministries Announces: Ting Ministries’ Home for Children in Bangladesh!
For our supporters who have been with us since July 2017, you will remember that Ting Ministries is helping to build an children’s home in Bangladesh for 30 orphans. In this home, they will receive an education and live in a safe environment, in a family style setting with Christian staff.
Through the generosity of a faithful Ting Ministries supporter, there are now enough funds to build the home. Thank you to the family and those who have also shown their support.
But wait! The job is not done! After its construction, we will need supporters to help supply and supplement the necessary materials to turn the building into a HOME. This will include: beds, furniture, kitchen supplies, staff wages and more. Please keep following the progress of the children’s home. Please pray for the workers’ hearts to be prepared for this job and for the children, as they wait for the home to be built, for their protection and that the Lord would draw their hearts to Him.
Thank you all and God Bless,
Brian and Stephanie Carpenter, Directors
Original Post

Dear Friends – we have some important and exciting news for you!

Ting Ministries is helping Pastor James and his team build an orphanage in Bangladesh! This is a big project, but it will help many children in the area, whom currently have nowhere to go and eat only once a day. Pastor James’ team have been trying to help as they go from village to village, but because the villagers are also so poor, there are not enough resources to also help the orphans. “So,” Pastor James writes, “our hearts are burning for them.” There are thirty children who have been abused and abandoned under the care of Pastor James’ team.

The plan is for the orphanage to also be a school, so the children can live there and also get a proper education. Eventually, there will be monthly costs to run the orphanage/school (for teachers, cooks, medical care etc). However, the first thing that needs to be done is to build the structure of the orphanage. This includes building the house with bamboo and wood with a tin roof. It also includes furniture, bedding for the children, and kitchen supplies.

The total cost for all this is only 4,556 US Dollars! 

If you would like to help us build an orphanage for these precious children there are several ways you can help: 

1. There is a PayPal button on the side of our website. Please specify for Bangladesh orphanage. 

2. Mail a check to Ting Ministries at 29 East Poplar Street, Lebanon, PA 17042. In the memo, please write for Bangladesh orphanage.

Please keep Pastor Sanga, his team, and the children in your prayers! Please share need and spread the word! Thank you and God Bless.

A picture from the recent shoe distribution in several villages! The children were so happy to get new shoes!

James 2: 15-17 “If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and well fed,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is that? So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.”

Avi's Story, Completed Projects, Orphan Care, Philippines, street children

Happy Independence Day: Need for School Fees and Marawi Relief Program (a Philippines Ministry Update)

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As we celebrate our freedom and independence on this July 4th, the people of Marawi, Philippines are still struggling under the recent ISIS attack at the beginning of the summer. We have an update from Pastor Mark to share with you. He has been in Marawi for 2 weeks now, establishing a relief program, helping street children, trying to relocate lost family members, and ministering to soldiers. Some of the people he has met with have accepted Christ! Here is what he has to say:

The children Ting Ministries plans to help send to school 
(not including the children already going to school in Zamboanga). 


“There are thousands of displaced children who didn’t have much food a month now. Hundreds of children are displaced from their families and we are going to look for then tomorrow. Marawi is a mountainous area and so big… Please pray for our ministry. These are the pictures of the children under education support in Zamboanga. THIS IS ALL BY FAITH Sister. Some of the Zamboanga churches think that I am crazy of coming to Marawi…faith is indeed a crazy thing to others! HALLELUJAH!”
The van that Ting Ministries’ helped provide a couple months ago is very
beneficial! Pastor Mark and others drove it down to Marawi. 
Pastor Mark (left, taking photo) with other Filipino ministry partners
in front of the van.

Wounded soldiers in Marawi. There was an ambush yesterday afternoon,
 and some of them were injured. They were ministered to yesterday and
 some of them accepted Christ!
We need your help to send the rest of these street children to school in Zamboanga and anything above the cost of this, Pastor Mark will be able to use for Marawi relief. Please keep the people of Marawi, the street children, and our ministry partners in your prayers! Later today, we will share a particularly tragic, yet joyous story from Marawi with you.

The relief program underway, providing food
 and necessities to the people of Marawi.
If you would like to give towards the joint project of school fees/Marawi relief, there are several ways to help: The blue Donate button at the top of the Facebook page will take you to our website, where you can donate through PayPal. Or send a check to Ting Ministries, 904 State Drive, Lebanon, PA 17042. (For both options, please designate for Marawi Relief). Thank you dear friends, followers, and brothers and sisters in Christ.
May we never take for-granted the freedom and protection we celebrate on July 4th. Happy Independence Day USA!
Completed Projects, ICII, Orphan Care, sponsors

ICII Sponsor Update as of June 6th

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Update July, 2017

All the children have sponsors! Thank you to those who have prayed, shared, and donated!

Update as of June 6, 2017

We heard that the son has a full 60 dollar sponsor! Praise the Lord! So, only 2 partial sponsors for the daughters are needed. One needs a 30 dollar sponsor and the other needs a 45 dollar sponsor. Please keep sharing the need!

Hello friends of Ting Ministries! A few days ago, we shared the story of three precious children in Pakistan who have an immediate need for sponsors. Read their heartbreaking story here. 

As of today, there are two children with sponsors and one child with no sponsors. One of the daughters needs another 30 dollar sponsor and the other daughter needs a 45 dollar sponsor. The son does not have any sponsors yet. 

Please consider what you can do to help these children. (See the original post for links to sponsor information or a place to make a one-time donation).
These innocent children have undergone tremendous suffering in their short lives. You could help change a child’s life! Please feel free to contact us for more info at: tingministries@comcast.net. We are personal friends of ICII and are so happy to partner with them in their work!
Completed Projects, guest post, Orphan Care, Ukraine

The Shoes Off His Feet

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“Some years ago, when [Andriy] came to church, he looked and was dressed awfully. Pastor Misha was so sad […] He took off his shoes and gave it to Andrei. It was just one and last pair of shoes that our pastor had. Later […Andrei] said: “I was so ashamed, I felt terrible, but no one helped me, only your pastor took off your shoes and gave it to me.“
Reading this, I sat in silence. When Andriy said he felt ashamed, I know I cannot begin to imagine this feeling. Yet, how many other orphans face the same shame? As Bible Orphan Ministry shares, how many orphans die before the age of thirty?

Though there were many other people who could have helped Andriy, but he himself said it was only the pastor who helped. He took the shoes off his feet and gave them to Andriy. This is the truth of following Christ. If it is in our power to help someone – will we? You may say: “Yes, we should help others. But this is an extreme case I won’t come across in my life.”
What if the Lord is waiting for us to “go and visit the orphans and widows in their distress?” (James 1:27). We have the resources – five dollars, ten dollars. Maybe the Lord is calling us to give of ourselves.
The pastor didn’t have to give his own shoes. But when God placed a need in front of him, he responded, truly following Proverbs 3:28. “If you can help your neighbor now, don’t say, “Come back tomorrow, and then I’ll help you.” Has the Lord placed a need in front of us? Have we responded, or tried to ignore it and go on our way?
Thank you to those who helped pay Andriy’s funeral costs. He accepted Christ the day before he died! Please read this post from BOM. Our friends shared these words from Andriy’s brother Misha: “Dear friends, thank you for your help and prayers. I felt very strongly that you were praying for me for my brother. Thank you friends for your financial help. And thanks for the prayers again! It’s very hard to talk for me now. Friends, thank you for everything! Amen.”
Pictured: Misha is in the gray shirt.