01/11/2025
Update 2025
board members, supporters, partners, and friends. - OARRS,Inc.
praying for you all now!
Please read below.
if you’re wondering -What is Skip and Oarrs,inc up to? Read below this is a summary of what I did.
Hi.
Thank you for your prayers. Below is a summary of the organizations and ministry people that I am working with.
Matthew 6:20-21 - . . . but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven wear moth and rust. Do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is there your heart will be also.
Hi, update from Skip Ritchie of OARRS-
Thank you so much for your prayers and partnership this past year.
Currently, I am working with three Christian ministries that are Africa based and in terms of charitable deductions, etc. they’re not US registered charities I don’t think.
New Generation Church South Africa, Somerset West Neighborhood Cape Town, South Africa,- is The Church and Contact is Yvette. She leads the Mercy ministry into the townships -called Taste and See Ministry,and she’s the one who had the Green Olive Christian Thrift Store items delivered with (50 lbs. of Bibles donated and delivered ) Bibles and food to 150 needed families at Christmas. (In townships formally existing from apartheid and pop up towns on public lands as small single room Housing.)
The second partner that benefits from the clothing ministry through Green Olive Tree Christian thrift store is Eden Ministries. Eden Ministries has a local relationship with Ian Fry and his wife Heidi that are from Stuarts Draft and she went to Grace Christian school in Staunton. I very much want to continue blessing them as they are caring for 80 children that are vulnerable or have been orphaned in northern Zimbabwe.
And a new emerging partnership is with Pastor Amazing (Kadoma Baptist Church )and his wife in Kadoma Zimbabwe, who have taken on a family of 23 orphans who recently lost their care mother who passed on. I was able to give him several items from the children clothing supply that was given to me from you all. Praise the Lord!
And in terms of training and caregiver encouragement, we were able to meet with the orphanage staff from the Percy house and do some training and provide materials and also we were able to work with pastors who are caring for children in their congregations who have been abandoned.
If more detailed information is needed for the support donation, please let me know. I can be reached by text or phone call 540-421-7003.
Please continue to pray for wisdom and discernment, as we focusing on those in need with clothing and Bibles, and also with supporting orphan care training material that biblically based and gospel centered to promote holistic,care and discipleship and evangelism.
Thank you so much.
By his grace,
Skip Ritchie
