There is so much to report with this update I feel like there should be TWO headlines.

1)    GREATER GRACE ORPHANAGE NOW HAD ITS OWN 501 (c) (3)!

We had been running our finances through the Chapel Ministries International to which we are very grateful for the help they have provided over the years.  Since we are now our own not-for-profit organization, we also have a new mailing address:

 

Greater Grace Orphanage

4486 Indian Ripple Rd

Dayton, OH 45440

 

All contributions should go to the new address and receipts will be issued from this location as well.  This is the culmination of a multiple year process.

2)      THE FARMING EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN PURCHASED AND SHIPPED!

 



The shipping container arriving to be loaded

On March 22, two tractors, a bulldozer and seven farming implements to attach to the tractors were loaded...

Our New Well!!      Our banquet in the fall was a great success and funds were raised to continue with capital improvements.  The well is planned to be drilled in April or May, the middle of the Nigerian dry season.  By drilling then, a good water supply is guaranteed year around.  While we were making plans for the well, a group from the U.S. visited Nigeria and requested to help at an orphanage.  They were directed to The Greater Grace Orphanage and asked what the greatest need was; they were told: need clean water. Quite unexpectedly, they put in a well right then! The orphanage now has a good water source as well as emergency filters that were purchased in October.  We are all so happy.  The well to be drilled in the...

GGO Newsletter

Fall 2011 Welcome to the first newsletter! We hope this will be of great help in keeping up on the news of the Greater Grace Orphanage, Isanlu , Nigeria. For you to even visit this page you must have some interest in orphans and their care. Teach a Man to Fish fundraiser banquet Join us for a Nigerian meal and a presentation of the Orphanage. Saturday, November 5 6:30 p.m. Shawnee Hills Baptist Church 3490 Jasper Road Jamestown, OH 45335 RSVP to: Michelle Miller miller.michelle.m@att.net or 937-453-9832 Orphans Update Since the children have moved into their new facility, their spirits have been encouraged and their bodies have been suffering. At the new location water can be retrieved from a shallow well as long it is the rainy season, but when the rain dries up, so does the well. Water has been trucked in from a local lake and the children have contracted Cholera and Typhoid. Some were hospitalized but all are home now. Water filters have been...