Immediate Need: Summer Bible School Camp - 5 Days - 60 Orphans

Our TM Philippines team is putting together a Bible camp for orphans in April. There are 100 indigenous children already planning to attend! However, there are also 60 orphans wanting to come learn about Jesus who cannot pay the small registration fee (covering materials, snacks for the 5 days). 

At the cost of 500 pesos - only $9.57 per child, would you consider helping one or two children come to Bible school? The total for all 60 orphans to be able to come is 30,000 pesos or $574.20. Thank you for helping fulfill the commandments in James 1:27 and Matthew 28:19-20.

500 Red Pockets for Hope and Brittan!

Update: March 31: We have handed out 60 pockets and received about 20 back with more coming every day! We have received notes from all over the world including about 10 notes from kids and parents in Indonesia! Thank you to all who are helping in this very special project for the girls. 

Just a few of the pockets from Indonesia

Update: March 22, 2018: We got our very first red pocket note in already! Don't wait to join the fun!

Announcing: 500 RED POCKETS FOR JUNJUN & AIPEI!

Hey, everyone! Sasha here, with some friends at Bucknell. Check out the project we are starting, to spread the excitement of Hope (Junjun) and Brittan (Aipei) coming home! It's an easy, quick, and fun way to participate in a Chinese New Year tradition and way to show the girls how many people are glad they are coming home! Ready?

Three Easy Steps:

1. Write a short note
2. Email the note tingministries@comcast.net or one of the leaders of the project OR if you are local, put it in a red pocket yourself and return it to us!
3. Tell your friends and help us reach our goal of 500 pockets by the end of the semester!

That's it!😃 GO!

See this post here for the backstory

The red pocket is traditionally given to children by parents and relatives as a sign of happiness and prosperity in the New Year. if you'd like to give a little donation in the pocket, you may place it directly in the pocket, donate online through www.paypal.me/Tingministries or write a check to Ting Ministries, 29 East Poplar Street, Lebanon, PA 17042. Please note: Red Pockets

Thank you!.

Safiya Plans to be a Doctor: Can You Help Make it Possible?

Pictured: Safiya's family 

Dear Friends - We have an update on our TM Pakistani family! We heard from our partners that Safiya, the oldest daughter of the TM family waiting for a sponsor, wants to go to university to become a doctor!  This is not a light decision on her part or on ours; she has shown the determination to stay with the program and succeed.Before her father's death, Safiya was a top student in her school, receiving all A's in her classes. After our partners' first visit where she told us she wanted to go to university, she went to different schools and gathered information about possible programs. 

To study to be a doctor, Safiya will need to complete a four-year course. The cost is $1,700/year or a total of ONLY $6,800 to pay her university studies entirely!

Friends, can we come together to support Safiya? Here in the States, $1,700 only pays for a meal plan, much less an entire tuition! Let us be the answers to her prayers for the chance to continue her education!

If the Lord is leading you to help Safiya you may: 

1) Send a check to Ting Ministries, 29 East Poplar Street, Lebanon, PA 17042

2) Use our Paypal at www.paypal.me/Tingministries 

Please specify: Safiya university

Update: Sponsors Needed After Pakistani Man's Death Leaves Family in Dire Need!

Update: March 7, 2018

Thank you to all who helped this family! We were able to send someone with food and supplies.

Pictured: 2 daughters (outer edges), the brother, and the wife and mother of the man who died

While visiting, the two daughters, "Aisha" and "Safia" (not real names) said they would like to attend school. Ting Ministries would like to raise support for  so they may continue their education. If you want to help Aisha and Safia go to school, you may read more on Becoming  a Sponsor, or give a one-time gift. A full or partial sponsorship will cover monthly attendance fees and basic supplies for the daughters.

Aisha's University fees: Full: 60 dollars/month Partial: 30 or 15 dollars/month One Year: 540 dollars/year

**UPDATE: Aisha needs only 340 more dollars to provide for one year of university!  

Safia's High School fees: Full: 30 dollars/month Partial: 15 dollars/month One Year: 270 dollars/year

Sponsorships are an essential part of Ting Ministries' work that continues to grow! Not only are sponsors meeting basic needs, they are a source of encouragement for our TM families, who are blessed to know others care about them.Thank you!

Original Post from March 3, 2018

Dear friends, we have an urgent, heartbeaking plea to share with you today.

There is a family in Pakistan. Their father, the brother of a Christian pastor, was unable to provide for his family due to the rising persecution of Christians in-country. Being Christian, their family continues to be extremely ostracized, unable to find jobs, or purchase basic necessities. Overwhelmed at being unable to take care of his family, he committed suicide, just a few days ago. Now, his widow and four older children are left alone, with no means of caring for themselves. The story has been in Pakistan newspapers (pictured above). 

Ting Ministries has contacts in Pakistan who are going to visit the family with food and supplies - but in order to purchase the food, we need to raise $ 160 USD. Such a small amount to help in such a big way to comfort and encourage. If you feel led to give to help this family, please:

Give online: www.paypal.me/Tingministries 

Send a check: Ting Ministries, 29 East Poplar Street, Lebanon, PA 17042

January in the Philippines: Support for Feeding Program and a New Auntie

A Note from Pastor Mark about the work our team is continuing this year...

"For the month of January, things are going well and we will be starting lots of changes and expansion to our programs. My wife is reorganizing the orphanage ministry and is asking the orphanage director to allow a new student as a new orphanage Auntie for the children. Also, if one church can really commit support the monthly ministry then we will not be affected in our approach and program for the children. We will also have a long meeting the community leaders for the children's ministry in the remote areas. Please pray for us and that we will be able the start of the feeding program."

If you know a church would like to support the monthly feeding program for the orphanage, so the children can receive healthy and supplemental meals, please contact us at tingministries@comcast.net.

Thank you!

Christmas 2017 in the Philippines

Ting Ministries wants to help our ministry partners celebrate Christmas with over 300 kids! Would you consider donating a few dollars so they can purchase Christmas gifts for these children? A little bit will go a long way and these kids would be so grateful to receive a gift of their own. If you are interested in helping this project, please:

1. Send a check to Ting Ministries, c/o Brian Carpenter, 29 East Poplar Street, Lebanon, PA 17042
2. Or, donate through the PayPal at the side of our website. 

Please specify for Philippines Christmas

Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Pictured: Some of the kids who will receive presents...

Can You Take Them: A Ting House and Indigenous Children

Pastor Mark tells us: "My wife and I are here in an indigenous tribe visiting the orphans and children. We are looking for more partners to sponsor children to schools. Please pray that God will doors of opportunities. These children are mostly illiterate and only 18% are going to formal studies. Most of then are living in mountainous and remote places."

Pastor Mark with the indigenous children

Also, Pastor Mark took another trip to Marawi, where he was met by thirty orphaned children. Those in charge of the relief center asked him: Can you please take them? Pastor Mark's heart was broken. Friends, Pastor Mark would love to take these children back with him to Zamboanga so they could go to school and experience the love of a family. However, before this would be possible - we need a place for them to stay. We need your help to build a children's home, a Ting House, for children like these. Pastor Mark and his family would welcome them, but until we have an additional home in Zamboanga, these children have nowhere to go. Please pray for the Lord to provide the funds needed so we can carry out the mission of James 1:27: To care for the orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

If you would like to give to the cost of a Ting House for the Philippines: 

Donate on the PayPal button at the side of our website or write a check to: 

Ting Ministries

904 State Drive, 

Lebanon, PA 17042

Please specify: Ting House Philippines

100 percent of your donation will go to the Ting House, with nothing taken out for administrative purposes. All our work depends on the help of our generous supporters. Please consider how you can help today! Thank you and God bless.

Urgent Need for Philippines: School Fees and Continued Marawi Relief

You may remember us sharing a need a couple months ago about school fees for Ting Ministries' children in the Philippines. Unfortunately, the need has not been met yet - and the children have started school already! They will not be able to stay in school if Pastor Mark cannot pay their fees. It is only 6 dollars a month for elementary school and 12 dollars for higher level education! Please consider if you can help these children, both former and current street kids, go to school - they are counting on you!

Also, Pastor Mark is heading back to Marawi to another evacuation center! In order to continue helping the displaced families and children, he needs our help to purchase supplies like clothing, food, and toys. 100% of Ting Ministries work depends on the faithfulness and generosity of our supporters! Even 5 dollars makes a difference! Please share and get the word out! Thank you!

The total cost for both these needs is: 2,250 dollars.

To learn about becoming a school sponsor for a child in the Philippines visit our Become a Sponsor Page here.

To make a donation to the school children or ongoing Marawi relief, please go to: www.paypal.me/tingministries and specify what you would like your gift to go towards.

Filipino street child

Pastor Mark's boys. Former Muslim street kids, they are now part of our TM family

These boys begging for food asked Pastor Mark to help them go to school

Pastor Mark's Family was Robbed! Can You Help?

Dear Friends - Yesterday, Pastor Mark's family was robbed! Three laptops and a dvd player were stolen from the church. These laptops have ministry and other important information on them. Without these things, Pastor Mark cannot run ministry! 

To replace the stolen items, it will cost about 1,500 dollars. Can you help cover this need? Pastor Mark and his family would feel so blessed to know people care so deeply about his ministry they want to help! Please pray for their continued protection.

Below is a picture we got  today of the street boys Pastor Mark and his wife took in. Ting Ministries is helping them go to school! These kids are former Muslims who lived on the streets. Now they are going to school, learning job skills, and want to help in the ministry when they get older like Pastor Mark.

To give towards the cost of replacing the stolen items:

You can use the PayPal button on the side of the website or write a check to Ting Ministries at 904 State Drive, Lebanon PA 17042.

To give towards the boys' school fees:

If you would like to be a monthly sponsor: Email tingministries@comcast.net with your name and mailing address. We will send a sponsorship form for you with a picture and information on the child you would like to help! These sponsorships are 30 dollars and include: monthly school fees and other basic necessities. At 12 dollars a month, only 72 dollars pays for a whole year of school! Please consider what you can give to help!

If you would like to give a one-time donation: Please use the PayPal button at the side of our website. Or, make a check out to Ting Ministries and send it to 904 State Drive, Lebanon, PA 17042. Please specify for Philippines Sponsorship. Thank you

Update: Bangladesh Orphanage Construction Funded and Soon Underway!

Update: Mach 16, 2017

Message from the Directors - Ting Ministries Announces: Ting Ministries' Home for Children in Bangladesh!

For our supporters who have been with us since July 2017, you will remember that Ting Ministries is helping to build an children's home in Bangladesh for 30 orphans. In this home, they will receive an education and live in a safe environment, in a family style setting with Christian staff.

Through the generosity of a faithful Ting Ministries supporter, there are now enough funds to build the home. Thank you to the family and those who have also shown their support.

But wait! The job is not done! After its construction, we will need supporters to help supply and supplement the necessary materials to turn the building into a HOME. This will include: beds, furniture, kitchen supplies, staff wages and more. Please keep following the progress of the children's home. Please pray for the workers' hearts to be prepared for this job and for the children, as they wait for the home to be built, for their protection and that the Lord would draw their hearts to Him.

Thank you all and God Bless,

Brian and Stephanie Carpenter, Directors

Original Post

Dear Friends - we have some important and exciting news for you!

Ting Ministries is helping Pastor James and his team build an orphanage in Bangladesh! This is a big project, but it will help many children in the area, whom currently have nowhere to go and eat only once a day. Pastor James' team have been trying to help as they go from village to village, but because the villagers are also so poor, there are not enough resources to also help the orphans. "So," Pastor James writes, "our hearts are burning for them." There are thirty children who have been abused and abandoned under the care of Pastor James' team. 

The plan is for the orphanage to also be a school, so the children can live there and also get a proper education. Eventually, there will be monthly costs to run the orphanage/school (for teachers, cooks, medical care etc). However, the first thing that needs to be done is to build the structure of the orphanage. This includes building the house with bamboo and wood with a tin roof. It also includes furniture, bedding for the children, and kitchen supplies.

The total cost for all this is only 4,556 US Dollars! 

If you would like to help us build an orphanage for these precious children there are several ways you can help: 

1. There is a PayPal button on the side of our website. Please specify for Bangladesh orphanage. 

2. Mail a check to Ting Ministries at 29 East Poplar Street, Lebanon, PA 17042. In the memo, please write for Bangladesh orphanage.

Please keep Pastor Sanga, his team, and the children in your prayers! Please share need and spread the word! Thank you and God Bless.

A picture from the recent shoe distribution in several villages! The children were so happy to get new shoes!

James 2: 15-17 "If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and well fed,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is that? So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself."