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CHRISTIAN MISSION OLPC

Introduction

Welcome to the Christian Mission OLPC Site. We are delighted you decided to stop by. Please browse around and ask questions if you require more information. We appreciate your help and support to make this life changing project a reality.

About Us

The Christian Mission OLPC Project - Making a Difference!

We are a grassroots "holistic" mission focused group of Christ followers engaged in utilizing our God given talents (SHAPE) to eradicate illiteracy and spiritual emptiness by educating the next generation and mobilizing our resources so that all can hear and understand the gospel (Good News) in their own language.

The Goal

To donate 100 XO computers to a mission school in Africa by December 2008. To accomplish this, we are requesting financial support or actual donations of XO computers.

Partnering with Local Churches and NGOs

To achieve our goal, we are open to partnering with local churches and non-profit organizations to make this happen. If you know of any such organization that may be interested, please let us know.

Our Ethos

We acknowledge our need to be continually transformed, to continue to open ourselves to the leading of the Holy Spirit, to the challenges of God's word and to grow in Christ together with fellow Christians in ways that result in social and economic transformation. We acknowledge that the scope of the gospel and building the Kingdom of God involves body, mind, soul and spirit. Therefore we call for increasing integration of service to socity and proclamation of the gospel (adapted from LOP #39 - Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization)

Fulfilling the Need

Providing young people with educational opportunities, training options and life skills enables them to meet the demands of the workplaces of tomorrow. Education is for life—it is an investment that cannot be lost, spent or taken away. A good education prepares young people to build on their abilities and sets them up for lifelong learning, so that they can further enhance their opportunities.

How to help

This project is a collaboratively organized undertaking, so the best way to get started is to just dive in and introduce yourself. We need support volunteers who can help us reach this goal through fund raising efforts and project administration, personal financial support or ideas to achieve these objectives.

If there is a project mailing list, IRC channel, or other form of communication that is not this wikipage, please list it here.

Help wanted

If you are interested in helping, you can help! We need people from all disciplines and experiences who share our vision. If, after reading this page, you're still unsure of how to get involved, contact User:Cybersurfer.

If you want help with your part of this project, you can post specific tasks below. Please detail what kind of help you are looking for here, a timeframe or expiration date for the posting, along with contact information or how people who are interested should get involved.

Improve this page!

We are looking for volunteers to help improve this project page and keep it up to date. If you see how you can make something more coherent or organized, please jump in and edit; if there's a resource you think would be useful to this project, please add it. If there's something about the project itself you have ideas about, you can add it to this page directly, or start a discussion on the talk page. You do not need to contact anyone about this job - just do it! This posting never expires.

Events

Upcoming

If you have an upcoming event (meeting, hackathon, etc.) related to this project, please list it here along with details of how to participate. Once an event is over, please move it to the Past Events section, below.

Past

Activities related to this project that have already occurred, for archival purposes.

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 == Introduction ==
-Welcome to the Christian Mission OLPC Site. We are delighted you decided to stop by. Please browse around and ask questions if you require more information.
+Welcome to the Christian Mission OLPC Site. We are delighted you decided to stop by. Please browse around and ask questions if you require more information. We appreciate your help and support to make this life changing project a reality.
 ==About Us==
 The Christian Mission OLPC Project - Making a Difference!
-We are a grassroots mission focused group of Christian believers engaged in utilizing our God given talents (SHAPE) to eradicate illiteracy and spiritual emptiness by educating the next generation and mobilizing our resources so that all can hear and understand the gospel (Good News) in their own language.
+We are a grassroots "holistic" mission focused group of Christ followers engaged in utilizing our God given talents (SHAPE) to eradicate illiteracy and spiritual emptiness by educating the next generation and mobilizing our resources so that all can hear and understand the gospel (Good News) in their own language.
+== The Goal ==
+To donate 100 XO computers to a mission school in Africa by December 2008. To accomplish this, we are requesting financial support or actual donations of XO computers.
+== Partnering with Local Churches and NGOs ==
+To achieve our goal, we are open to partnering with local churches and non-profit organizations to make this happen. If you know of any such organization that may be interested, please let us know.
+== Our Ethos ==
+We acknowledge our need to be continually transformed, to continue to open ourselves to the leading of the Holy Spirit, to the challenges of God's word and to grow in Christ together with fellow Christians in ways that result in social and economic transformation. We acknowledge that the scope of the gospel and building the Kingdom of God involves body, mind, soul and spirit. Therefore we call for increasing integration of service to socity and proclamation of the gospel (adapted from LOP #39 - Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization)
+== Fulfilling the Need ==
+Providing young people with educational opportunities, training options and life skills enables them to meet the demands of the workplaces of tomorrow. Education is for life—it is an investment that cannot be lost, spent or taken away. A good education prepares young people to build on their abilities and sets them up for lifelong learning, so that they can further enhance their opportunities.
 == How to help ==
-This project is a collaboratively organized undertaking, so the best way to get started is to just dive in and introduce yourself.
+This project is a collaboratively organized undertaking, so the best way to get started is to just dive in and introduce yourself. We need support volunteers who can help us reach this goal through fund raising efforts and project administration, personal financial support or ideas to achieve these objectives.
 '''If there is a project mailing list, IRC channel, or other form of communication that is not this wikipage, please list it here.'''
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 === Help wanted ===
-If you are interested in helping, you can help! We need people from all disciplines and experiences. If, after reading this page, you're still unsure of how to get involved, contact [[User:CYBERSURFER]].
+If you are interested in helping, you can help! We need people from all disciplines and experiences who share our vision. If, after reading this page, you're still unsure of how to get involved, contact [[User:Cybersurfer]].
 If you want help with your part of this project, you can post specific tasks below. Please detail what kind of help you are looking for here, a timeframe or expiration date for the posting, along with contact information or how people who are interested should get involved.