Build On The Rock! Luke 6:48

First proposal to the Build On The Rock Ministries Committee Members

This project will nurture, house, feed, and educate 100 orphaned children between 4-18 years old at The Christ Centered Coeducational Community in Kenya, Africa.  The project will construct 6 houses that will house 16 students each with a father/mother figure in each one, a school building, outside playground, library, offices and storage for school items. This facility will also include 6 houses, a school building, administrative building with storage for food and supplies, 4 apartments for guests/teachers, a structure to house livestock, a student recreation center with gym and lounge, and a clinic.

3 Houses for Boys and 3 Houses for girls:

The Student Homes.  Our mission is to make each child feel like they belong to a real family.  Therefore, each home will have 16 students and house parents.  House parents are married couples that have a deep passion to fulfill Build On The Rock Ministries mission.  They will promise to love and encourage each child that will live with them.  The House parents will be responsible to teach their children spiritual and domestic living.  They will distribute house chores, cooking, and planting crops.

During school hours the student will go to their own homes and make lunch with their house parents and siblings.

Room 1: A bedroom that holds 8 bunk beds (double decker beds) for 16 children. 16 large dresser drawers attached to the wall for their clothes.

Question: Should there be a closet? Should we include any other furniture? Should the bedrooms have mirrors, especially the girls? How big should this room be? How much will it cost for the beds and furniture?

Room 2:  A bedroom with one bed for the house parents which includes a closet and a dresser.

Question: Do we need a double or queen size bed? How big should this room be? Should we include any other furniture? How much will it cost for the bed and furniture?

Room 3: Kitchen that has a stove, sink, refrigerator, and cup boards (storage space) and counter space and table with chairs. Plates, cups, bowls, eating utensils, pots, pans, dish towels, dish cloths etc. (help me list them)

Question: How big should this room be? Should we include any other furniture (microwave)? What items should be stock in the kitchen and how much would they cost? Should we include a table and chair in the kitchen or should we make a 5^th room for the table and chairs?

Room 4: A bathroom with toilet, shower, mirror, storage space and washing room (wash and dry/clothes). Towels, wash clothes, soap, shampoo (help me list them)

School Building

We would like to educate each child with 8yrs of primary education, 4yrs of secondary school.

2 primary classrooms, 8 primary classrooms, 5 secondary classrooms, a library, an outdoor playground, 2 toilet rooms one for boy and one for girls, 5 offices (School administrator, School Assistant administrator, 2 Counselors, secretary, and a room for storage)

About Education Curriculum: Other than the normal Kenyan education, we would like to add to their curriculum an international cultures class, a Bible Class/spiritual leadership class, and co-curricular activities.

Some of these co-curricular activities will be to develop leadership skills and other interests in tradition that include and are not limited to student publications, including a student newspaper and yearbook, student government associations, business, computer, environmental, photography, science, agriculture and math clubs.

With this said, we would like to encourage the secondary students to contribute their time to community service projects and would like to set up off-campus internships and work programs that are offered through business and community organizations.

Some of these community service projects could include helping widows in the outer community and befriending other children that only have one parent. The clinic and students who desire to study in the medical field could be available to the needs of the outer community.

Recreation Center:  a big open room with stage and side room with kitchen, refrigerator, counter space and cupboards.  This is where we would hold Universities fairs/expos and concerts and athletic events. This building would also include a lounge room with couches. 

We would also like to set up a system that the children could earn money for universities if they desired to achieve higher education.  Once a year we would like our school to host a university fair where representatives from all the surrounding universities could come together and share their schools with the children. Other public and private schools could be invited. We would use this building for that.

Administrative Building: with storage room for food and supplies, a conference room for meetings, a filing room with filing cabinets, and Administrator’s office.

4 Apartment For Guest/Teachers: Most teachers will live off campus, but few might not. We would like to have apartments available for teachers to rent or guests to use. Each room can have a bed, toilet, kitchen, stove, and refrigerator. 

A Clinic: will foremost be responsible to take care of the students.  However, we would like the clinic to be part of an outreach project to the outer community as well.  The clinic will also be a place where students who want to study in the medical field will be able to exposed to the medical practices.

A Stable/ livestock Help me list please. What animals should we house? What size should the structure be? What should be included in the structure?  How much would the animals and building cost?

About staff:

We will need to hire the following people, what is your suggested salary they should receive?

6 House parents

School administrator

School Assistant administrator

2 Counselors

secretary

2 pre-primary teacher

8 primary teachers

5 secondary teachers

Librarian, 5 offices (Principal, Vice Principal, Guidance counselor, Secretary, and a room for storage)

Food/livestock care-taker

Nurse/doctor

In faith, we are believing and planning for the future events of this project and its funds.  We plan to hire staff to help run the facility. We are thinking about getting each staff member to raise half of their salary themselves and then Build On The Rock Ministries would provide the other half. (we think it is important that churches and others be a part of this project-and they will stay more connected and up to date if they are financially and prayerfully helping to support a staff worker.  Of course we will do all we can to help them get their full support.)

Also we plan to set a committee, with president, vice-president, secretary and treasury, grant writer/fundraiser specialist to be in charge of The Christ Centered Coeducational Community in Kenya, Africa. They will be in charge of maintaining the community and reporting to the Administrative Committee monthly. 

Our goal is to have this project complete at least within the next 3-5 years or as soon as the funds come in.  I know a lot can happen between then, but we are praying and asking God to direct our every step.