Abundant Hope Ministries

03/09/2022

Thank you for praying and giving. We are already on the way to reaching our financial goal to help the Ukranian Refugees. Later today we will wire the 1st amount of money to Rasa. Please let those you know what is happening and forward these messages as you feel appropriate. The need is BIG and this is not a short-term endeavor. We will email updates as we get them.

For now the funds we send will help in 2 ways:

FIRST, we will help towards for the costs of housing and feeding the refugees at the Rasa Center. As of last night there were 13 mothers and 18 children settled safely in the Centre. To increase capacity at the Rasa Family Centre they have added bunkbeds to the rooms. More refugees are expected daily.

SECOND, we hope to provide funds to go towards a large box truck filled with food, water and essential supplies that the Rasa team will drive to the Romanian/Ukrainian border. This will provide food for HUNDREDS of refugees. Store shelves in Ukraine are almost completely barren. If the team can get in and out quickly, we will continue to do this for as long as the money is there....the cost of the first truck load was $5,400 US dollars. The next shipment will be about $7,700 US dollars. Each truck load of food and supplies will help HUNDREDS of Ukrainian Refugees.

PRAYER REQUESTS FROM THE RASA TEAM:
- Please pray for additional staffing for the Centre to help them with the cooking, cleaning and caring for the influx of refugees.
- Please pray for finances to feed and house the refugee families who may be there for a very long time.
- Please pray for good health and energy for the Rasa staff.
- Please pray for all the refugees at the Rasa Center who are in deep anguish after having been separated from their husbands, fathers and homes due to the war.

WHEN YOU GIVE TO ABUNDANT HOPE MINISTRIES, WE WILL SEND 100% TO THE RASA CENTER AND THEY WILL USE 100% TO HELP THE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES.

To give finances, please visit our website, www.AbundantHopeMinistries.com or mail a check to the address below.

With love and thanks,

Matt & Darlene XX

We are grateful for the financial support of our partners. Your donation goes directly to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual and educational needs of orphans and other vulnerable people groups cared for through Abundant Hope Ministries.

03/07/2022

Dear Friends and Family of Abundant Hope Ministries,

We are all watching together and praying as events unfold from the Russian invasion into the neighboring country of Ukraine. Many of the pictures and videos coming out of Ukraine are painful and heartbreaking to watch, as families are separated and hundreds of thousands of refugees are fleeing across the border for their lives.

The Rasa Family Center in Romania is a Widows, Orphans, Evangelism and Training missions organization that Abundant Hope Ministries financially supports every month. The director of this organization, Reinhard & Darcey Neufeld, are Darlene’s uncle and aunt, who moved from Canada to Romania a few years ago.

The Rasa Family Center has opened its facility to welcome, house and provide aid and a safe place for refugees fleeing from Ukraine. Here is a brief message from Reinhard as these precious war refugees start to arrive:

“So many tears… a very difficult day as we comfort the young mothers in our Center whose husbands are bravely fighting for their homeland and freedom in Odessa*.
This is the youngest refugee in our Center…He was born at the start of the war in Odessa, and his mom, brother, aunt and cousins had to travel 2 long days and nights to escape encroaching dangers and landed in Rasa where they find safety and love! Please join us in prayers for all these families!”

* Odessa is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major tourism centre, seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.

Abundant Hope Ministries would like to send funds to help with this need. If you would like to contribute, please visit our website at www.AbundantHopeMinistries.com and click on the DONATE tab. Checks can be made out to 'Abundant Hope Ministries' and mailed to: 1750 Hwy 160 West, Suite 101-303, Fort Mill SC 29708.

Above all, please pray for the people of Ukraine and for those who welcome them to safety.

With our love and thanks,

Matt & Darlene Woodhouse,
Founders, Abundant Hope Ministries.

01/11/2022

Dear Family and Friends of Abundant Hope Ministries,

We wanted to take a quick moment and share with you 1 of the letters we have recently received from 1 team we support in Romania working with orphans and the poor. We are so thankful for your financial support...it really does make a difference:

FROM ROMANIA:
"Today we are giving away more food and gift bags and we want to Thank you so much for the monthly support you send us!! You can't believe how much this means to the people here, I have more widows crying because they did not know how to make it through the holidays - and then we showed up with your food bags! One teenage girl told us she prays every night for her younger 9 brothers and sisters to have food for the next day - and then we showed up with your food bag and gifts! I told my staff they are angels sent by God to build faith in these children and families - and behind us are more angels like you sending money to make this happen... Thank you, love you guys."

Again, THANK YOU for supporting Abundant Hope Ministries...please continue to give as you can.

Blessings, Matt & Darlene xx

12/31/2021

As we prepare to close out 2021 and launch into the many unknowns of 2022, one thing we do know for sure is that there is much to be done helping orphans and widows.
Thank you to everyone who has supported AHM through these past 12 months. It is because of your faithfulness that we were able to give above and beyond this month to help those in need.

11/29/2020

****“Oh my goodness!!! I am speechless!!! You guys are amazing!! This will go such a long way to bless so many families and children!”****

We received this message from the director of the Rasa Center in Romania when, on Thursday, we let him know about the financial gift Abundant Hope Ministries would be sending, and have now sent.

Because of the amazing generosity of the Abundant Hope Ministries supporters, we have sent the funds needed in Romania for:
**THIRTY Christmas food parcels to help 30 families have food for December;
**TWELVE truck-loads of firewood to help 12 families keep their homes warm this winter;
**NINETY-FIVE Christmas gift bags that will provide Christmas presents for 95 children who would not have had any gifts.
THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!

We are now in the wonderful pre-Christmas season, and although we reached our giving-target for ROMANIA (Thank You again!!!), we still have on our heart to send funds to help children in HAITI and KENYA this Christmas.

We have on our heart to send a total of $4,000 so that 250 children can enjoy an extra special Christmas.
If you are able to give a portion of this amount, we will make sure every dollar goes to these precious kids.
Here are the 3 primary ways you can give:

1) You can give through paypal via our website, www.AbundantHopeMinistries.com and click on DONATE;
2) You can call us at (803)493-0955 to arrange giving directly to the Abundant Hope Ministries bank account;
3) You can give by mailing a check to Abundant Hope Ministries, 1750 Hwy 160 w, Suite 101-303, Fort Mill, SC 29708.

Thank you for praying, encouraging, giving and believing with us for Abba Father's purpose for every orphan and poor family we reach.

With our love,

Matt & Darlene xx

We are grateful for the financial support of our partners. Your donation goes directly to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual and educational needs of orphans and other vulnerable people groups cared for through Abundant Hope Ministries.

08/19/2020

Our latest Newsletter will be snail-mailed out next week. Thank you all for your patience :)

04/15/2020

APRIL GIVING UPDATE:
Due to the kind and generous financial donations from our partners, we have already sent funds to help orphans and widows in the following nations this month:
- KENYA
- HAITI
- ROMANIA

If you would like to Donate to Abundant Hope Ministries to help orphans and widows in need, please visit our website (www.AbundantHopeMinistries.com) and click on Donate.

THANK YOU - THANK YOU - THANK YOU.

We are grateful for the financial support of our partners. Your donation goes directly to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual and educational needs of orphans and other vulnerable people groups cared for through Abundant Hope Ministries.

04/12/2020

04/06/2020

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04/03/2020

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03/27/2020

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03/23/2020

There is no Social Distancing with Abba Father. Take some time today to DRAW NEAR to Him.