Pathway to Hope - Heritage Baptist Church

Pathway to Hope sponsorships now include:

Believers Sunday School Class sponsors a teenage boy who had been living with his parents but recently came to live at the church-sponsored dormitory due to abuse at his home. The monthly donation provides for Vannak to attend government school as well as private/supplemental school, books, and uniforms. Vannak is now in 10^th grade.

Faith Sunday School Class sponsors a teenage boy in the Children’s Home.  Most of these children do not have families, or the family is so poor they have no way to provide for the child.  Joseph has been orphaned twice and came to live in the Children’s Home when he was 10 years old. He is now in 11^th grade.

The Missions Committee sponsors teenage girl child who lives with her grandmother in a rural village, while her parents live and work at the Thailand border.  They enjoy receiving letters and photos from Sreisros twice a year and watching her grow up. She is very thankful for the support of the Missions Committee as it makes it possible for her to attend school.   She is a very strong Christian and attends church each week.  She helps to clean the church and helps to teach Children’s Church every Sunday, before she joins the adults for worship.  Sreisros is now in the 10^th grade.

Hope Sunday School Class sponsors the House Parents of the Hope For Cambodia Christian Children’s Home.  Pachan and Hanna started in Pathway To Hope’s (PTH) Sponsorship Program when they were in middle school. They were faithful Christians and good students and both earned a BS degree in Business Management in 2006 and joined the staff of PTH assisting with the Sponsorship Program and various other duties. In the meantime, they fell in love, got married and had their first child in January 2009. They have been the House Parents of 23 children in the Home since February 2008.

The Emerson Sunday School Class sponsors a young man who is now in medical school and wants to return to his home village and practice medicine. Cambodia is in desperate need of real doctors who will honestly and lovingly care for the sick. Chantra has been #1 in his class for his first 2 years of medical school and was #3 this past year.

Several members of Heritage have purchased a cow for one of the pastors so that he can start his own herd and earn money to support his family.  This investment also allows him to have the time to pastor the members of his church, which is usually a house church.  Other members make donations to help purchase bicycles for students who often have to travel many miles to school each day, and others sponsor children personally.

Degi Winstead