Agape Fish Fund partners with Vets with a Mission (VWAM) to provide life-saving heart surgery for poor children in Vietnam. In spring 2018, Vets with a Mission sent 3 medical mission teams to Vietnam. During their first trip in March, the medical team identified two patients to receive heart surgery. Heart Patient 1: Ho Thi Huong, 41-year-old womanOne of them is Ho Thi Huong, a 41-year-old woman. Without the heart procedure, she would suffer a premature death. Heart Patient 2: Phi Ho Kim Hue, 3-year-old boyThe other heart surgery patient is Phi Ho Kim Hue, a 3-year-old boy. He not only had a cleft palate but also a heart problem.
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Agape Fish Fund partners with O'Keefe to provide tutoring and Christian mentorship to low-income students in East Palo Alto, California. End of School YearMay 14, 2018, was our last day of tutoring for the school year. We hosted several celebrations for our students and appreciation parties for our volunteers. We are so grateful to serve the community of East Palo Alto. The hard work that each volunteer did this school year and last summer made a huge impact. It was a blessing to work with them. New students and activitiesThis school year, we were blessed with an influx of new students and new tutors. In fact, the apartment has gotten so crowded that we’ve moved our 5th graders across the street with the middle school students. We also arranged several fun activities for the students, especially around the holidays. We took a field trip to the Bethlehem experience and hosted a Christmas party with gifts. Report by Aimee Zhang and Jose Talavera Agape Fish Fund partners with Southeast Asian Prayer Center (SEAPC) to provide orphans and children in Cambodia with a Christian home and education. UPdate Letter: May 2018Dear Agape Fish Fund, Thank you very much for your dedicated support of your sponsored children in Cambodia. You are changing lives through your support in prayer, finance, and talents. The children and staff appreciate it very much. trip to cambodiaI visited New Hope for Orphans in Cambodia for three weeks during the month of March; traveling to each children's home with three of the NHO head office staff: Sokhom Sor, NHO Administrator, Sarah John, NHO Financial Coordinator, and Vannak Hong, NHO Child Communications Coordinator. We had a good trip. The mission of the trip was to continue to develop relationships, see how everyone is doing, and gather information to help NHO continue to improve and prepare for the growth coming its way.
Agape Fish Fund partners with O'Keefe to provide tutoring and Christian mentorship to low-income students in East Palo Alto, California. College AmbitionsWhat do these colleges all have in common? They are schools that our students aspire to attend.
Our low-income tutoring program serves elementary and middle school students, and some of our previous students are now in high school. But we can tell how the East Palo Alto students who have attended our program have college ambitions that differ from their peers in the area. It is very exciting that we have the privilege of encouraging these students at such an early age. Marcus Givens, the Development Officer of O'Keefe's parent ministry BCM, shared the following: I want to share with you a very encouraging conversation I heard, when I recently visited CREATE Studios, our STEAM (science, tech, engineering, arts and math) program. Kids were doing their homework, and I had the fun of helping a very bright young lady, whom we’ll call Delfina*, with her algebra. Maybe what stood out the most was the seemingly everyday conversation about colleges. I sat next to Delfina, who wants to be an engineer or maybe a doctor. She wants to go to Stanford, but knows it's tough to get into. This didn't phase her of course. She began to explore other schools, and other students, while working on their homework, chimed in. The Taiwan Prison Ministry reaches out to Vietnamese inmates in Taiwan through church fellowships and activities in prison and detention centers, such as worship services, discipleship, and Bible memorization contests. 3 Inmates BaptizedPraise the Lord that 3 of the prison inmates got baptized! Pastor Thu explained the significance of baptism to everyone and then baptized the 3 men. Worship ServiceAs part of our ministry, the inmates sing worship songs and listen to a message.
Agape Fish Fund partners with O'Keefe to provide tutoring and Christian mentorship to low-income students in East Palo Alto, California. Christmas PartyOn Monday, December 18, 2017, we had a great turnout for our Christmas party! Many thanks to Sierra for organizing and prepping all the presents! Thank you to all the tutors for helping out. We are so blessed to have you! Merry Christmas everyone, and hope you enjoy the holiday season!
Agape Fish Fund partners with local churches and volunteers to provide meals, supplies, and Christian support for the homeless in San Jose, California. This fall, not only did we help with the big Thanksgiving event for the homeless at Forager, but we also continued with our regular visits to the encampments. On a typical Saturday, we have about 15 volunteers going to serve about 8-10 homeless people. We’ve distributed tire repair kits, water, canned foods with crackers, socks, and shoes. These supplies have provided the homeless with basic necessities to get by on a day to day basis. This kind of service provides new volunteers with the experience of interacting with people who are homeless. It allows people to talk with them on a personal level and understand the conditions that they go through on a daily basis.
Agape Fish Fund partners with O'Keefe to provide tutoring and Christian mentorship to low-income students in East Palo Alto, California. Monterey Bay Aquarium Field TripLearning is fun when it’s under the sea! On Saturday, November 11, 2017, a group of 18 of us went to Monterey Bay Aquarium for a 3-hour field trip. We had 2 middle school students, 10 elementary school students, and 6 volunteers.
We had the fortune of being accepted to the Free-to-Learn program at the aquarium, similar to last year. This provided us with tickets for all the students and tutors. Agape Fish Fund partners with O'Keefe, a ministry that provides tutoring and mentorship to low-income students in East Palo Alto, California. Making Volcanoes on Science DayStudents didn’t have school on Monday, October 9th for Columbus/Indigenous People’s Day, so we gave them a fun science day instead. Dr. Mike taught the students a science lesson in the backyard, and they had a blast working on volcanoes with baking soda and vinegar!
Agape Fish Fund partners with O'Keefe, which provides tutoring and mentorship to low-income students in East Palo Alto. This year we'd like to enrich 12 of the students with field trips to see a nativity drama and to provide school supplies for them. Park DayOn Saturday, September 2, 2017, we took the kids to Willow Park for the morning. Everyone had a great time on the playground and hanging out.
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