Since World War ll the Karen people have been targeted for genocide.
When the Burmese army discovers their village, they flee in terror while the army shoots everyone in sight, steals their rice and burns down their homes.
Living in a constant state of uncertainty makes it difficult to plan very far ahead.
Staying alive and finding enough to eat is high on their priority list. Obtaining a proper education for their children seems like a dream.
Some parents arrange for their children to go to a distant village where they can attend a local government school, these children become an easy target for child labor or sexual slavery.
The idea of the Education Opportunity Program (EOP) began one day when Pastor Phamor was visiting a remote village with an abundance of children. He thought about the future of his people and how he could help give them access to a proper education.
It was then that God impressed him to do something about it by inviting his friends in Singapore to sponsor those impoverished children.
50 years later, the Karen people are still a target for extermination, and their children still need our help…
But many lives have been changed through the Education Opportunity Program.
Ying, Orphaned at 7, was a 15 year old Buddhist when she and her younger sister came to stay with Pastor Phamor and his wife.
At first, she told herself, “I will not become a Christian”. Then she heard that she had a sponsor.
“What is a sponsor?” she asked herself. Ying learned that a sponsor was someone that would help her get an education.
“Why would this person, who I never met, want to help me?” She thought.
Her life began to have meaning and purpose as she thought about the sacrifice this person was making for a stranger. She heard about a loving God that sacrificed Himself for her when she did not even know Him.
Today Ying is a teacher, a medical missionary, and the dedicated assistant director of the Education Opportunity Foundation.
She still keeps and cherishes a letter this generous sponsor mailed to her 15 years ago.
God has put it in her heart to carry on the work that Pastor Phamor began so long ago.
This year, two brothers came to the EOP dorm in Chiang Mai. Their father died and their mother remarried and abandoned them at her elderly parents hut.
The younger is only 6 and still misses his mother terribly. We are so thankful that he has a safe and loving place to live where he will learn about a Father who will never leave him.
Thank you for supporting the Education Opportunity Program through Leading to the Light.
Your support will help continue the legacy, that Pastor Phamor began nearly 50 years ago.
$37,000 is still needed to reach our goal and launch into 2017.
Please invite your family and friends to join in supporting Leading to the Light.
It will only take 310 people committing to $10 a month for one year to complete our goal for this year.
Please help us reach our goal…
