Year Goals:
- Help three local churches become resource centers that will advance the Kingdom in Bulgaria and beyond.
- Develop and demonstrate models of success for redeeming the lives of orphans and underprivileged children that can be replicated elsewhere. Convince local churches that they have a Biblical responsibility to care for widows, orphans, and the poor.
- Impact the lives of targeted young people in Bulgaria, helping prepare them for leadership roles in transforming their country for Christ, including planting churches.
Amanda and Gayton
Fun and games in Bulgaria
Strategy to Achieve the Goals:
- We will consciously develop strong relationships with Ivan Vrachev’s and Venci Stoikov’s churches through cluster team interactions, youth exchanges, partnering on orphan ministries, and Shakaba. We will help them grow and expand their influence as Kingdom resource centers.
- We will maintain and expand our relationship with Peicho Muchtarov, realizing that he is a key leader in Bulgaria, and part of our Global Family network. We expect to both help Peicho, and learn from him.
- We will create mechanisms to interact with the Novo Selo orphanage on a consistent and regular basis to deepen relationships with the children, teachers, and administrators. This will ensure follow up to mission team visits, and provide accountability.
- Find alternatives to the current orphanage system – share with local churches, organizations, and individual Christians.
- Working with the Global Family and our own youth at Calvary, we will develop deeper and more meaningful relationships with targeted youth in Bulgaria. Our focus will be on those currently active in significant ministries, who we and our local partners feel are future leaders.
- We will work with the Star of Hope Foundation, and other targeted non-government organizations (NGOs), to learn from them, and to help them have greater impact serving orphans and the underprivileged.
Thanks
The Bulgaria Advisory Team
. While there, the director called another special needs orphanage nearer to Plovdiv with a recommendation for us to start going there too. We will have a meeting with the director next week. A great opportunity that needs much prayer.