April 2025 Newsletter
SUSTAIN KINGDOM GROWTH
Have you or a loved one been impacted by the ministry of Pancho and Pitty through Amor y Esperanza? You can sustain their work of transforming lives for Jesus by becoming a monthly donor today! The LHF provides approximately half of the funding needed to run Amor y Esperanza each year, and we are excited to launch the Sustain Kingdom Growth campaign. We are working to grow our monthly donations!
Sustainable Giving
Our year end initiative, "Nurture Kingdom Growth," raised funds to support and nurture the tremendous growth of AyE in 2024 with increased student capacity due to the third floor construction. We still celebrate the success of that endeavor! Looking forward, it would be most helpful to the families and staff of AyE if we could support them with reliable monthly gifts in addition to one time gifts. While any gift is a treasure and a benefit, for several reasons we hope to increase monthly donations to "Sustain Kingdom Growth."
Financial Planning
First and foremost, it is a challenge to fulfill our mission of financially supporting AyE when we do not know when to expect most of our funding. Thankfully, the Lord has continued to bless this ministry through all of you! However, since we support AyE monthly, we would like to build a broader base of monthly donors and DOUBLE the regular monthly giving to LHF. This would allow our Finance Team to better plan for the future and to communicate to AyE how we can support certain school efforts.
Make It Easy
Finally, monthly giving makes it easy for people like you to make a big impact through a thoughtful monthly gift that lines up with your budget. A monthly gift feels less significant to your personal budget, yet over the course of a year or more adds up to a meaningful donation that makes a big difference in the lives of our AyE friends. Will you prayerfully consider setting up a monthly gift to AyE? Use the button above to get it done right now while it is on your heart and mind!
Proverbs 3:9 "Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce..."
SAMFORD UNIVERSITY VISIT
In March during Samford's Spring Break, a group of students and faculty made their first visit to AyE, led by Dr. Anna McEwan, Dean of Orlean Beeson School of Education, and Dr. Kara Chism, Assistant Professor and Director of the Master of Science in Instructional Leadership program for the School of Education. It has been a blessing that Love and Hope Foundation's newest board members, Teresa and Clayton Hemphill, are active Samford alumni who have forged this new relationship.
Amor y Esperanza staff and students lovingly welcomed the group, who were “thoroughly impressed” by the school. They spent some time observing in the classroom and then led a seminar with the teachers, teaching several strategies for managing busy classrooms. To the Samford group's delight, many of those new techniques were implemented the very next day. What an encouragement!
Another impactful takeaway for the Samford team was their visit to the wonderful new Prayer Room at AyE. In fact, Dean McEwan and Dr. Chism plan to implement a similar ministry at Samford's School of Education, after experiencing the impact of seeing both the prayer requests and celebrations of answered prayers in the cozy new space.
Please join us in thanking the Lord for this new relationship - something on our prayer list for some time! Dean McEwan is already looking into pursuing another trip to AyE in 2026, so we covet your prayers over this pursuit and all that it might include.
Enjoy the photos above from the Samford visit to AyE and please check out our Instagram and/or Facebook accounts and give us a like or follow - it's a great way to support LHF and AyE as well as stay up to date on the latest happenings. Reach out to us via email with any questions!
How can you partner with Amor y Esperanza?
Pray! Current needs are:
Increased number of monthly donors
Against spiritual warfare at school and in the community
Staff & students' health, safety and growth at AyE
Financial provision for the next school year
Lives transformed in the Carmen Bajo community
One-time giving is always appreciated and helpful, too! Make a gift here.
Interested in serving on a LHF committee? Please reach out to lhf.quito@gmail.com.