Hello RRCP Partners,      

Lord willing, we will start the Children's Care Center CCC again this April 1, 2017. We have identified another 50 students that are malnourished and severely malnourished that are not doing well in school. The weekend tutoring and nutritious meals feeding program will bring the kids to school level and bring them out of malnourishment. 

The cost of the program including teachers, a nurse, and nutritious food is $400 per month. 
If you can help financially, please contact me at steve.bragg123@gmail.com 

Below is the rationale from Pastor Alagos.

RIVER ROCK CHURCH PHILIPPINES  
Children's Care Center 
RRCP Church, “Franks”, Mabasa, Patnongon, Antique
Philippines
Proverbs 22:6 (NASB)
“Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it”

Childrens’ Care Center Rationale

Looking at the needs of the Children especially in the remote areas, malnourishment is evident and it really affected a lot with their school’s academic performances, and this was noted as the major cause of so many problems in the school and community. With these realities, CCC came to birth on July 2014 to February 2016.

The pilot area was “Franks”, Mabasa and barangay Igbarawan with 48 children and all of them were malnourished and labeled as “pupils at risk” at Igbarawan-Mabasa Elementary School. “Pupils at risk” are children who are nearing for dropping out, failures, and quitting. CCC program has provided tutorial in English Reading, Mathematics, Values and Health Education and Also 3 meals feeding for Saturday and Sunday.

Along with its years of existence, it transformed the school’s performance in the following Areas:

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  > Out of 86 malnourished children in the school 55 of them became normal in their health
  Status at the end of the school year.
  > Drop out rate of the school drop to zero percent because children were very excited to attend their regular classes Monday to Friday and to their CCC program on Saturday and Sunday.
  > The cohort survival of the school has increased from 83% to98% in all grades.
  > Parents became more involved in school activities.
  After CCC experiences, pupils who have undergone CCC classes are very active until now, they were able to raise up their morale or values, very respectful in their teacher and their being self-confident is noted. There were some pupils who are in high school now performs very well and are included among pupils who are in Top ten in their classes.
   

                        

                                 

Children are a precious gift from God, loving them is loving the Lord at the same time because they are the least among his creation. Thank you, Lord, for raising them up to your ways!

Thank you, Lord, for raising people who could Love and Pray for them! Amen!

Pastor Alejo Alagos, Principal 1
Igbarawan Elementry School

CCC (Children's Care Program)

Our CCC (Children's Care Program) is one of our most blessed ministries. We started with 67 severely malnourished children behind in school. After almost a year, more than half are graduated caught up in school and attending regular school with good reports from their teachers.

The Hounshell family visited the children. It was a blessing for all!

CCC (Children’s Care Center)

Please continue to keep our CCC (Children’s Care Center) ministry in your prayers.

• ·         We need pastors and teachers to help us with values/morals training Sunday afternoons.
• ·        Also we need financial supporters.

These children are the most in need with malnourishment and low grades. We tutor them in math, reading, science, health/hygiene and values/morals. We feed them nutritious meals. We pray for them!

May our Lord continue to bless us all! 

Birth of a New Ministry

Children's Care Center"(CCC)

This is the birthing of a new ministry from heart of Pastor Alejo Alagos and our Lord Jesus Christ. You have been reading about it on my Facebook page but now you'll hear it from pastor Alagos heart!

Generous hearts have stepped forward to support this ministry. THANK YOU!

Here is Pastor Alagos:     

RRCP NEW MINISTRY
Month ago, as I sat on my office at first hour in the morning first day of the week, two parents came with tears in their eyes. They can hardly spoke because of the heaviness OF their heart for their two children were candidates for dropping because of their absences, tardiness and very low academic performance in the school. I have given my time to listen to their confession about their situation. The first parent is a widow and the one have many children that they cannot feed regularly and most of the time they ate one meal a day. After the conversation I scanned their records and to my surprise they were one among the severe malnourish children of our school. I can't hold my tears so I began to pray..."Lord Can I be your instrument to these hungry and least children so that they may know that you care for them? For what purpose that you put me in this office if I will don't mind them? In this campus they address me Pastor and yet I can't even touch their lives in a holistic way?... They need to see You through me because when I mention your name to them they cannot understand and feel your love!! 

This prayer really broke my heart for God's kingdom are really for people like them. So my mind begun to visualized many things and for three sleepless night I was able to come-up with the ministry namely: "Children's Care Center"(CCC).

The Vision are the following: 

VISION: Children's Care Center is intentionally committed to love and reach-out the least among the children in the community and cater their basic academic, health, moral and spiritual needs so that they will become physically, emotionally and spiritually strong and God-fearing individual and a productive citizen of the society ever ready to respond to the call of service for their community.

MISSION: Children Care Center will provide temporary shelter for the children to love and care by generating activities and resources that would cater their basic academic, health, moral and spiritual needs.

PURPOSE:
1. Improve academic performance of the least among the children in the elementary grade on the following areas: Reading comprehension skills in English to Mother Tongue, Reviving Elementary Mathematics focusing on its four fundamental operations, Health Education with elementary science integration, feeding program and values formation for moral recovery.
2. Reduced malnourished children by providing them nutritious meal during their sessions.
3. Be a help to the Department of Education in their programs leading to the reduction of the drop-out and failure rate and increase the participation rate of the school.
4. Becoming an arm of the government on moral recovery, value formation and Children's Protection Programs.

The sessions will be done every Saturday and Sunday afternoon.

MY THOUGHT IS THIS: "If the adults of our present generation will not respond to the call for transformation, then we will start with our children today so that together we can make a difference to the coming generation".

With the help of my beloved friend Pastor Steve, just this week many people from RRC-USA have responded to this program, THANK YOU LORD, WE REALLY SERVE AND AWESOME GOD. As we assessed, we are almost ready to start the program, please pray for us that before the start of September we can raise the exact amount to cover the finances for the entire program from September 2014 to March 2015.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO THOSE WHO HAVE EXTENDED THEIR FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND THOSE WHO HAVE VOLUNTARILY TAKEN-PART FOR THE MATERIALIZATION OF THIS PROGRAM.

God's grace is so abundant. Amen, amen!!

Your partners in this ministry to Filipinos,

Pastors Steve Bragg & Alejo Alagos