23 goals:

• Open a children’s center “Seeds of Love” in Upper Belen

• In the back yard, have a soccer field, jungle gym, fruit trees, and a vegetable garden

• Invite more neighborhood children into the Children’s Club; share the Good News and invite them to have a personal relationship with God

• Have weekly Bible studies, prayer and worship meetings, and discipleship programs for boys and girls, including poetry for inner healing, interpersonal relationships, and moral values

• Teach the children to dramatize Bible stories to help them remember God’s Word

• Take river trips to minister to children in the villages

• Take our ministry children to the river villages to evangelize through dramatizations of Bible stories

• Evangelize in the marketplace in Lower Belen (a very poor neighborhood on the River); open a Club for regular ministry

• Involve the children in service projects around the city

• Organize children’s events several times a year on a large-scale to evangelize throughout the city

• Have mission trips from the US to help with construction, house needs (painting, cooking), and VBS, workshops, etc.

• Visit the children at their homes and invite the parents to come to church

• Partner with the local church to involve the parents, to raise money to pay for electricity and water, and to organize events (soccer games, cookouts)

• Open a dining hall to offer lunch every day, for a small donation

• Open a clothes and food closet, for a small donation

• Have a study hall; tutor Spanish literacy, English, mathematics and logic, and arts and crafts; offer workshops, games (ping-pong, board games), computers, and books

• Offer job training workshops and job opportunities; encourage high school and college graduation

• For parents, offer parental classes/ Bible study, also workshops in sewing, beautician training, hand crafts, First Aid, health, technology, etc.

• Have weekly church sessions specifically for children

• Prayerfully select children to live in the home long-term (whose parents cannot care for them and who have a heart for education and for God)

• Match a sponsor with a child, to provide clothes, food, medicine, and education

• Open an elementary school for low-income/ at-risk children

• Open more children’s centers in other parts of Iquitos led by Iquitos staff