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SIFA Choir is coming to town

 

Introducing the SIFA Choir. This is a letter all MPM Members received and I would like to share it with you in hopes that you might be interested in helping.


It's time to give all of you an update on the 20 kids who comprise the SIFA Africa Choir - the ones Together We Can Change The World (TWCCTW) is bringing over from Uganda to tour the US and sing for 6 months. So many wonderful things are happening with this undertaking - lending new meaning to TOGETHER We Can Change The World!


It's also time to tell you how you can help - and how you can meet all the TWCCTW Kids!


The kids are so excited about coming because they know their 6 months here will enable them to take back an expected $160,000 - money that will be used to build a school, build more houses and take care of more of their friends who are languishing and dying on the streets and dirt roads of Uganda. They have no concept of America - they just know they are leaving so they can help their friends!


All of us here are doing as much as we can to make this a reality for them. TWCCTW & My Power Mall are giving financial aid and working closely with Carrie Harless, my little sister and the coordinator for the SIFA Africa Choir.


Brad Gerver, the MPM Director of Marketing, put out a letter to our merchants and the offers started coming in%u2026


We have a shoe store that is going to provide 50 pairs of shoes - 2 pairs each for these children who will have never even had shoes on their feet until Carrie flies over in late March to bring them back.


Shoes.com was eager to be part of this special undertaking!


A luggage store is providing both Duffel bags for their clothing and Backpacks for their school books while they are here.


We have another merchant who is trying to provide the Sound Equipment they need, and we're talking with Rental car places about the two 15 passenger vans we need.


It's now time to let you know what else is needed and also give you a chance to host the choir for a concert and also possibly have some of the kids and chaperones stay in your home - giving you a double blessing!


Please go to www.sifachoir.org. Click Here to hear their wonderful choir.


Click on Calendar and see where the Choir is going to be. If you would like to host the kids, contact Carrie Harless at carrieme2@integrity.com. Let her know her "big sister" and MPM member, Paul Barksdale sent you. :)


Thank you in advance for your help.


Paul Barksdale

MyPowerMall - SIFA Africa Choir New Childrens Group picture 

new group picture update from the SIFA Choir May 5, 2008....

Below each picture is the name of the person that is helping sponsor and provide for each child while they are in the United States.


SIFA Choir Update 4-8-08 

An Email Message from Ginny Dye

Hello MPM Members,

Wow! There have been over 1500 new members since I wrote an Update last Monday. I want all the new members to know I usually write an Update daily, or at least 3-4 times a week. This week has been very different because I have had the amazing privilege of spending the 5 days traveling to the East Coast and then spending time with the SIFA Choir - 20 AIDS orphans from Uganda that we have brought over as a company to tour the United States, doing concerts and raising money to take back to build homes and a school in their country.

Before I tell you some about the last few days I want to tell all our new members that THIS is why we exist. Yes, we have created a powerful business for you to gain financial freedom but the bigger purpose of that My Power Mall is the vehicle we use through my bigger company, Together We Can Change The World, Inc., to help non-profits and people all over the world. You see, I really do happen to believe that TOGETHER we can change the world! While we help 1000's of Non-Profits through My Power Mall, and will help hundreds of thousands more in the future, as a company we have adopted an orphanage in Uganda and are doing everything we can to help the children there. Part of that involved bringing the SIFA Choir over. Take a look at these wonderful children!

I could write for days about the horrors and suffering these children have experienced as their parents have died of AIDS, as they have struggled to survive, and of the burdens they carry daily. I could also write for days of the struggles Carrie & Jamie, the two Americans who went to Uganda to bring them here, overcame as they worked to get Passports and VISA's for the children and the 3 Ugandan chaperones who are with them. I took Carrie & Jamie out for dinner last night and was astonished at how diffiicult it was to get the Choir out of the country - and equally amazed at the incredible things that happened to make it possible.

What I'm going to tell you about instead, is about some of the children. From the time we decided, sometime in December, to bring the children here, it has been non-stop work, efforts and planning to make it happen. There wasn't time for it to truly sink in. It didn't become real for me until I rounded the corner at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC and saw them all standing as a group, and then they broke into song... Together We Can Change The World. It all became real and tears came as I gazed at their beautiful faces and realized what all of us - as a company - had done to make a dream come true. It took every single one of us to make it happen. There have been some people who are more closely involved with helping us plan and coordinate concert appearances, but it's what ALL of you are doing to build your business that is allowing us to bring them here.

The tears came harder, amid a smile so big I thought my face would crack, as the kids all crowed around to give Mama Ginny a huge family hug. Let me introduce some of the TWCCTW Kids to you.

These are just a few of the children I have grown to love so deeply. I am so glad we are helping to feed, clothe and educate them, but keeping them healthy until they are 18 is only the first step. I talked with all of them Friday night and explained to them that when they are ready to go to University, or Trade School, or they want to start a business, that Together We Can Change The World will make that happen for them. They erupted into cheers. The excitement on their face, and the wonder in their eyes - especially the older ones who realized they really could make their dreams come true - made everything we have done to get here so worth it. The members of the Miracle Team who are building TWCCTW Foundation Malls are making it possible for us to make their dreams come true! As we move forward we will have thousands of Foundation Malls that will give a chance to so many who can them have such an impact where they live!

These children are the hope of Uganda. We can make it possible for them to help and change their country. We WILL change the world and help as many children as we can - One-Child-At-A-Time! We'll start in Uganda and we'll move to every country on every globe. We'll help Foster and Abused children here in the United States, and we'll continue to offer a way - through My Power Mall - for every kind of organization to create the funding they need to fulfill their mission.

And along the way, we'll provide a way for every single individual member to have financial freedom and give them the power to help make a difference.
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This is all I have time for today because I hear footsteps above which means 20 hungry kids are getting ready to descend for breakfast and I still have to go fix it. :) I'll be here through today and then I'll be heading down to Richmond where in a few days I will be welcoming all the members of the T-Squad (the TWCCTW corporate officers) and then 3 days later the SIFA Choir and all the Founding Members of the TWCCTW will join us for our annual "Family Reunion". I can hardly wait!

More business news will come later - this morning I just wanted to make sure I let you in on the miracle unfolding before my eyes on a daily basis - a miracle ALL of you have made possible. THANK YOU! To find out more about the SIFA Choir and to learn if they are in your area for a concert just go to www.SIFAChoir.org. Their very first concert is this Friday night right here at Summit Grove Camp in New Freedom, PA. For all the details you can go to www.summitgrove.org. If you live close by I would tell you to do anything you can to be here. It is something you don't want to miss!

MyPowerMall - SIFA Choir UPDATE 2-11-2008 

a letter from one of the coordinators...

Carrie Harless is part of the board for Glory Children's City International and has worked tirelessly to help raise funds to build the orphanage and help the kids. All of you are helping to make her dream of bringing the kids to the U.S. to do the SIFA Choir tour.

She wrote this about the kids preparation to come to America.

On January 1st, 2008 the SIFA Choir children were picked up by minibus from their rural villages and made the journey 4 hour journey to the capital city of Uganda, Kampala. This was a very exciting journey for the children as many of them have only been in a motor vehicle 2 or 3 times prior.

The children arrived in Kampala and were greeted by the members of Glory Church Katwe, who are hosting the children while they are in the city. Once the children where properly welcomed they were taken to a home that had been rented for them only a few blocks away.

The children where amazed when they went into the bedroom as mattresses which had been shipped to Uganda from the US for the orphanage, had been moved into the home for the children to sleep on. The children had never seen American mattresses, let alone slept on one and said they felt like "kings". In the villages the children are accustomed to sleeping on hand woven grass mats on dirt floors.

The children began rehearsals the next morning and have been working 6-8 hours daily on their singing and dancing. The children also continue to work on their academic studies as to not get behind. For the first time in their lives these children have someone believing in them and telling them they can make something of their lives and are flourishing at the academics opportunities that are being presented to them.

The children are so excited about the opportunity to come to the United States and realize what a tremendous privilege it is. When planes fly overhead the children giggle and make comments about things that they have heard about airplanes. They can't wait to experience things like the "moving pictures in front of every chair" (Seat Back TV's), the "chairs that move when you push a button" (reclining seats) and the "special platter with food that everyone gets for them selves" (Airplane food).

To many of the children the whole thing doesn't seem possible yet, however the excitement is contagious and they have already begun counting down the days. Everyday the children pray for the people who have made this opportunity possible for them. Each of them have taken on the role of ambassadors for their fellow orphans very seriously and realize that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. They are excited to express their gratitude when they meet each person who has made this journey possible.

As coordinators, this opportunity is a dream come true for Jamie and myself, and beyond a dream come true for these precious children. What a blessing to be part of something I trust will "change the world" starting with these children. The excitement of the children and their chaperones grows daily as they count down the days to departure and imagine things that they have only heard about and things they can't even fathom.

Thank you for making this possible. For having faith in these children and partnering with them in their hope of improving life for the African orphan. Carrie Harless

You can help support Carrie and Deo and all the children by joining us today at MyPowerMall.

SIFA Choir Picture and Song 

listen to them sing... they will bless your heart!

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They will bless your heart!


Visit their website Here.




New One Child at a Time Recipient 

One Child at a Time Program update

Christine didn't have much of a childhood growing up in Kampala, Uganda. Her father left when she was young and she grew up taking care of her ill mother. When well enough, her mother worked at any job she could find to earn money to support them. But when she was too ill to work, little Christine took on the role of her mother's caregiver. After years of illness her mother could no longer work enough to pay the bills.

A few years ago, this 2-member family lost the small house they were living in because they could no longer pay the rent. When Glory Church heard of their plight, the church offered them a small room behind the church in which to live. Christine and her mother have lived there ever since.

Christine is now 15 years old and Glory Church is paying her way for school. When this hard working youngster is not in classes or doing homework, she is tending to her elderly mother who is dying, and assisting with chores needing to be done around the church.

Glory Children's City International (GCCI) is a group of more than 30 people who joined together in 2005 to make life better for a group of orphans in Masaka, Uganda. All of the officers and board members are volunteers. Administrative supplies, time, and all items needed for the GCCI project are donated by the board and other members. This is a program where 100% of the funding and resources go directly to the children.

Every purchase made on MY POWER MALL helps us feed, clothe and provide schooling for Christine.

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