Curriculum and printing
Paper, ink and press time, on ICP's own presses in the Philippines, Kenya and Myanmar. An eighty-page book costs about two dollars to print and carries eighteen weeks of lessons.
Give online
Use the secure form below. You can give once or set up a recurring gift, and you can designate it to a specific work: the Backpack Ministry, the Myanmar Building Project, literature for a particular country.
Give by mail
Send a check to ICP, P.O. Box 2587, Texarkana, TX 75504. Note the fund or project on the memo line if you would like your gift designated.
Give through your church
Most of what funds this ministry comes through local churches. If your church would like to take on a project, a country or a print run, call (903) 278-2648 and we will talk it through with you.
Give online
Secure giving through Zeffy. Choose an amount, and use the Fund or Program box to designate your gift.
Five dollars
Fill a backpack for a child
A backpack holds hygiene items and school supplies, and it goes to a church along with the Bible study materials. Each church beginning the ministry receives fifty of them to hand out when they start.
Five dollars fills one backpack. To give, use the donation form above, multiply the number of bags you want by five, and select BackPack Ministry in the Fund or Program box.
If your church wants to pack the bags itself, the item list and the tag pattern to attach to each one are ready to download.
Item list and tag patternWhere your gift goes
A book that costs about five dollars to produce reaches a church in Kenya for about five cents, in the Philippines for thirteen cents, in Myanmar for two cents. The difference is what you give.
Translation
Translators who belong to the churches they serve, working in Burmese, Falam Chin, Swahili, Russian, Tagalog, Romanian and Spanish, plus the travel to distribute the literature and train the teachers.
Humanitarian aid
Backpacks, hygiene kits and school supplies. Rice, clothing and disaster relief. A children's home in Myanmar. Hungry children must be fed before they can hear.
Other ways to help
Not every gift is money.
Pray
Read the newsletter and pray for the people named in it. The requests in it are real and specific, and they are the first thing we ask for.
Write or edit
The writers behind Character Code for Life and our Bible school studies are volunteers who give the work from hearts of love for children. If that is your gift, we would like to hear from you.
Take a VBS offering
Churches here have made ICP their Vacation Bible School offering goal. Your children can help the children of the world get the same lessons in their own language.
Talk to us about partnering
Churches, businesses and individuals all have a part in this. Tell us what you have in mind and we will find the right place for it.
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