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We created Kraftworks as a way to bring funds into Children's Ministry. While Kraftworks serves many different purposes our primary goal remains the funding of Children's Ministry and programs that support children. Through Kraftworks we've been able to provide a total of 100 days of employment for our 6 part-time staff. We've also been able to direct a little over $19,000.oo towards community organizations and charities that have a positive impact on children and the community. This page details the organizations we support and the extent to which we financially support them. In 2004 we started attending Bayside Church in Cheltenham. We think it is a great church, and one of the reasons we think it is a great church is because it has a wonderful, effective, entertaining Children's Ministry. The Bayside Church Community Christmas Lunch is held annually on Christmas Day to give people who are normally alone at Christmas an opportunity to enjoy the meaning of Christmas and to connect with others in the community. Deborah Gates organizes this event that feeds 300 people and we think she is just brilliant! Operation STITCHES' vision is to reach each of Melbourne's inner-city Public Housing high-rise estates with a clear message of making good life choices, a message that will make a positive difference to the children growing up on these estates. Operation STITCHES' program teaches core life values and skills such as respect for self and others; respect for public and private property; respect for law and order; self-discipline; honesty; love of family; and honour of God and country. This is all taught with an anti-drug, anti- violence, anti-crime emphasis. The Children's Future Fund aims to secure critical funding to perpetuate the excellence of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research under the leadership of 2003 Australian of the Year, Professor Fiona Stanley. The Institute brings together biologists, geneticists, biochemists, social scientists, health clinicians, epidemiologists, biostatisticians and health economists, who work together in innovative ways to tackle the complex issue of children's health. It’s a truly comprehensive approach to the most fundamental of issues – to ensure the future health and wellbeing of our most precious resource – our young people. In Texas in the United States any animal may be owned -- tigers, bears, anything. A tiger cub costs around $1,000.oo, making them roughly the same price as a pure bred dog. These animals may be cute when they are young but they are soon too big to handle -- at which point they are often abandoned. While not a children's charity, all children love exotic animals and this organization cares for many that would otherwise be destroyed. World Vision has many programs that help children. This program helps those kids that are out of the reach of their normal child sponsorship programs because they live outside of a family, on the fringe of society. In many instances these are the children rescued from human trafficking and slavery.
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