Streams Of Life

Through a series of circumstances and connections, the Lord directed Calvary's Children’s Team to find Streams of Life Ministries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and appoint it to be the Calvary Missions Project for VBS 2009.

Streams of Life is an Orange County Rescue Mission type ministry that has played a key role in bringing disaster relief to Louisiana residents through hurricane Katrina (2005) and Hurricane Gustav (2008).

Streams of Life www.streamsbr.com is also a distribution center, distributing food, clothing, and household items to non-profit agencies who then distribute to individual families. Some of those receiving supplies include single moms, mentally handicapped adults, veteran’s groups, the working poor, and inner-city school children. Streams of Life is a ministry of River of Life Church. This Church consists of only 25 members yet feeds over 5,000 people each month!

In May of 2009, Children’s Pastor, Matt Davis, 5th/6th Grade Pastor, Chris Gniffke, 5th/6th Grade Intern, Ben Harris, Reach Local Pastor, Matt Doan and Calvary Elder, Todd Yates, traveled out to Baton Rouge to see the Streams of Life Ministry first hand. They were amazed at the work of God that is being done at Streams of Life as God uses this tiny church to show His love in big time ways to the people of Louisiana.

In August of 2009, the kids who attended VBS heard about the Streams of Life Ministry each day in the Missions portion of the VBS program and were challenged to bring in enough pennies to buy a brand new forklift for Streams of Life to use in their warehouse in Baton Rouge.

During VBS craft time kids also assembled stuffed turtles that say, “God cares,” which we call “Comfort Critters.” The kids wrote prayers that fit in a pocket on the Comfort Critter and we will be delivering more than 1200 of these to Streams of Life to stuff in backpacks of inner-city kids in Louisiana who need to know that God cares about them. This project is called Operation Kid-2-Kid, giving our kids here an opportunity to minister to other kids and shine God’s light.

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