Give the Gift of Life this Christmas

Friends,

CARE for AIDS has successfully provided life saving and transforming care to over 300 families since our conception. This Christmas, I am asking you to help us give this gift of life to 75 more people and their families in 2010. Below is a graphic that represents the 75 individuals that we want to raise support for in gifts and pledges before December 31, 2009. So, if you are praying about where to give year-end gifts, please consider CARE for AIDS. Or, if you want to make a monthly pledge to support one of these people throughout next year, now would be a great time to do so. If each person that reads this post would give $5 or $10 towards this goal, it would make all the difference. Let's try and make this logo turn from white to red. Please check back periodically as I will be posting updates as we get closer to our goal.

One-time Gifts
$20 for one month of care for one client and his/her family
$60 for three months of care for one client and his/her family
$200 total per client to complete the CARE for AIDS program

Monthly Gifts
$20 per month to support one client in the program

While you may not think your small donation will make a difference. It may very well be the difference between life and death for a Kenyan man or woman. Please read Susan's story that Nick wrote about a couple weeks ago.

"The second story that I heard was about a woman named

Susan Muthoni. Esther has known Susan for quite a few years, and just two years ago it looked to everyone around her that Susan was close to death. Her family sent her to their traditional homeland to live out her remaining days, and all of her neighbors in Ruaka assumed that she had died, just like the flowers that perished in the house that she left behind. Esther recalls calling Susan on the phone and being told, "Esther, please pray for me to die"- life with HIV/AIDS was just too difficult. Miraculously, a year passed, and Susan held on, so her family brought her back to Ruaka. At the same time, the CFA center in Ruaka was recruiting its first group of clients, and Esther went to see Susan and ask her to be a part of the program. We she found Susan in her home, Esther remembers her being so weak that she couldn't even swallow a spoonfull of porridge. Susan was excited about the CFA program, though, and as time went on she slowly grew stronger and healthier. She loved the trainings and seminars that the center held every other week, and she took what she learned and used it to start a small business selling charcoal and kerosene in Ruaka. Over the past year this business has grown, and Susan has managed to save enough money to buy a small plot of land and start building a house that she can own for herself and her daughter! This is a huge step for her, and it is so encouraging for her to see the fruits of all the work she has put in - praise God for such a drastic change in the life of Susan Muthoni! Two years ago no one would have pictured her as the smiling face you see here..."

If you want to make a difference in the lives of people like Susan, please click the link below to donate or go to our website, careforaids.org.

https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=17ccde

Merry Christmas!