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Are You Ready for Adventure . . . .
And a Life Changing Experience
then Join the ministry team of HCS . . . We promise you will never be the same!
Hope for the Children of the Street is a 501 (C) 3 non profit organization. So all volunteer program fees are tax deductible.
This page last updated:Saturday, April 12, 2008
Hello to all of you who are interested in volunteering with HCS this new year . Please email Pr. Jack to inquire about New 2008 Trip dates. Available trips will be limited to only 2-3 time periods this year. We are sorry for the inconvenience but Dates listed below are at present, being changed. Please email HCS to learn about the new team schedule :
Our ultimate goal is spreading the
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Each Summer, since 2000, we host
Volunteer teams at our HCS Boys
Home. This summer you will have the
opportunity to join one of the teams
that are coming to help us continue
our work. The links will tell you
more about our Boys camp and how you
might be able to help. You will also have the opportunity to attend wonderful church services and visit with the families that live around the HCS camp. Guided fishing and nature boat trips will be available after work each day. The camp is rustic, but very beautiful. Screened , floating sleeping cabins allow the jungle night sounds and spouting boto (Amazonas porpoise) to sing you peacefully to sleep after a hard days work at the camp. You will have great food, fun and good Christian fellowship while on this Jungle Mission adventure. Penny and Pastor Jack along with their boys are looking forward to seeing you. Just Click on the links at the below to access all the information needed to come to Brazil and help HCS in 2008.
Street
Children at a glance.
There
are an estimated 12 million children They spend their days begging, parking & washing cars, selling trinkets, or shinning shoes, to help their families income. A majority of these children never go beyond a forth grade education. The remaining 25% live full-time on the streets, often with a group of other children. Known as "Crianças da rua," they sleep in doorways, parks, abandoned buildings, or vacant lots. Since it's hard to get a regular job with no permanent home, many resort to petty theft and prostitution to survive. Many other children live at the city's waste site, living on the garbage others have discarded. Most street children in Manacapuru & Manaus Brazil where we work are addicted to shoe glue or other inhalants. This takes away their hunger, and keeps them high, helping them to detach from their hard existence on the street. The cost of this addiction is high, most develop physical and psychological problems. including hallucinations, kidney failure, pulmonary edema, and irreversible brain damage. Abuse, physical, emotional, and sexual by parents, or step-parents is the most common reason for children to leave their families. Hope for the Children of the Street-HCS We meet the kids on their turf. . . . we provide for their physical needs . . . . with Gods love. . . we plants the seeds of Hope.
Why volunteer with HCS ?
We need your help, and we are asking
for it.
Meeting these basic needs along with just spending time talking and joking with the children, opens many doors, and helps them prepare for more serious questions & solutions. Soon many ask for additional help and Pastor Jack and his wife Penny, start the long process of helping them learn anew that there is Hope, and there are those who want to help, love and guide them as they start this new journey. This always leads to the moment when the child understands he needs Jesus. HCS has built a Street Boys Home on the Manacapuru River. The first simple cabins were built in 2000 with the help of 1st & 2nd Baptist churches of Springfield Mo. Each year since churches & volunteers have helped HCS to improve the facilities. They now have two dormitories, a kitchen, a bath house, a school, and a new recreation building. The property will allow for a maximum of 48 boys, with the addition of one more dormitory and bath house. By Gods grace future plans are to purchase a 200 hector island upriver and start the boys project over. This larger space will be able to accommodate up to 200 boys, and allow the present facility to be changed into the much needed a street girls home. As God continues to bless us with more volunteers and funds, these new opportunities will be listed as current projects.
The following volunteer opportunities are available in 2008. We will be glad to customize a trip for your church. We can accommodate Teams between 8-24 members. Individuals who whish to come will be placed into smaller teams. on average, most church groups stay 8 to 10 days.
Volunteers who chose to work at the HCS Boys Home will receive a double blessing. They will not only have the experience of a lifetime helping the boys as they learn how to change their lives into balanced productive happy children, but will have the opportunity to explore the Amazon rainforest filled with exuberance and mystery after work each day. A one day river trip is also included on the HCS river boat. The final 2 nights will be spent at a nice hotel in Manaus sightseeing, shopping, and with the opportunity to walk the streets at night with HCS Missionaries, as they minister to street children. At the HCS Boys home you will help in a wide range of recreational activities such as art, music, dancing, sports, etc. that promotes learning abilities of the children. Please let us know your abilities and talents. We want to take full advantage of your skills. You will work between 6-8 hours a day.
You will stay
at the HCS
The floating Volunteer house Please email Pastor Jack at hope4streetkids@gmail.com for dates & complete info. regarding this ministry opportunity.
NEW >>>STREET VOLUNTEER We are presently seeking a new location in Manaus to re-open the HCS Street Children's Crisis Center. This is our most important objective. This will open many new opportunities for volunteer assistance As an Manaus street volunteer in Brazil, you will have the opportunity to help HCS teachers and staff workers to begin the process of helping street children to leave the street. Your daytime work at the Crisis center, could include: meal preparation, cleaning and upkeep of the facility, along with simple first aid.. At night, you will have the opportunity to walk the streets of Manaus and work with the children where they live. You will also have a chance to visit the HCS Boys Home and meet boys who have successfully left the street. Note: If you chose to stay in a hotel for the entire length of this trip, costs per week will increase by $62.00 (single occupancy) or $80.00 US per day. (double occupancy) .Breakfast included.
As a volunteer in the HCS English teaching project, you will assist the HCS teacher at the Boys Home. You will teach conversational English to 7-15 year old students at the small HCS school.. You will also help the local teacher to improve his English. The working hours will be five hours a day/five days a week. You will stay at the HCS Volunteer River house, located across from the HCS Boys Home. This is a floating dormitory with a large screened front porch. There are good comfortable single beds, hot water showers, and flushing toilets. All meals are included. There is a generator for lights, fans at night. Laundry service is provided while at the camp. Please see the links in yellow for more info. Please email Pastor Jack at hope4kids@internext.com.br for dates & complete info. regarding this ministry opportunity.
There are many poor areas in Brazil where there is a great need of health workers. In the interior where the HCS Boys Home is located, many simple infections go untreated. Worms, are common in children. Cuts, scrapes and burns go with out proper medical treatment. Dental hygiene is far from adequate, so dentist stay busy pulling teeth. Pregnancy starts in the early teens here and many young girls are uninformed and not prepared to care for their new infants. As a health volunteer in Brazil, you will minister to the HCS Boys, church members and surrounding community members with basic health needs. Train young women in small groups how to care for their young by maintaining sanitary conditions such as boiled water for infants, & understanding how colds and sicknesses spread. You can help them understand the importance of breast feeding, proper nutrition and regular immunizations for their children and infants. Teach about aids, and other STDs. You may have the opportunity to work in the health centers and assist the doctors and nurses and participate in health awareness campaigns and preventions. If you do not have any medical background, you can contribute by assisting and carrying out miscellaneous works. You will work between 6-8 hours a day. You will stay at the HCS Volunteer River house, located across from the HCS Boys Home. This is a floating dormitory with a large screened front porch. There are good comfortable single beds, hot water showers, and flushing toilets. All meals are included. There is a generator for lights, fans at night. Laundry service is provided while at the camp. You may also travel upriver to other small cities. Please see the links in yellow for more info. Please email Pastor Jack at hope4streetkids@gmail.com for dates & complete info. regarding this ministry opportunity.
Help the HCS Boys Home with construction needs.
The HCS Boys Home was started in 2000, and was completely built by Volunteers. It is always in need of maintenance, painting, electrical work, & plumbing. We also still need to build one additional dormitory and bath house. As we continue to evangelize and plant new churches on the Manacapuru river, we will need construction teams to help us build new church buildings. As a HCS volunteer working in construction, you will assist the construction leaders of HCS and help them to complete the various projects. Construction experience is helpful, but not necessary. All that is needed is a will to serve. You will stay at the HCS Volunteer River house, located across from the HCS Boys Home. This is a floating dormitory with a large screened front porch. There are good comfortable single beds, hot water showers, and flushing toilets. All meals are included. There is a generator for lights, fans at night. Laundry service is provided while at the camp. Please see the links in yellow for more info. Please email Pastor Jack at hope4streetkids@gmail.com for dates & complete info. regarding this ministry opportunity.SEE Language Note Evangelize and help plant new churches on the Manacapuru river, a tributary of the mighty Amazon 7 to 10 days
THE NEED One in four people in the world have never heard the gospel message, yet are anxious to hear Christ’s message of hope. You and your church can help HCS to evangelize the peoples of the un-reached Manacapuru river. By joining a HCS short-term missions team trip, you will be an integral part of sharing the Love and Hope of Christ to those who have not heard. It has been proven over and over that once a new church or group of believers is established, crime rate drops. This in turn helps to unite members of the community, which in turn opens more opportunities for the new believers to share their faith . Pastor Jack and Penny Oyler, founders of HCS have made a strong commitment to discipleship of new converts, and continued help for the new churches. This is a ministry of Igreja Batista Novo Esperança do Amazonas, the church they planted, and built across the inlet from the HCS boys home. As a HCS volunteer helping to evangelize and plant new churches, you will assist the pastor & ministry leaders in the various ministries. This will include the showing of the Jesus film, The Passion, church services and door to door evangelism. Each team leader should try and recruit a health care worker to minister to the sick in the community if possible. Giving away good used clothes that team members have collected, is all part of meeting needs. This is a river trip and all lodging will be on the boat. Sleeping in hammocks, and eating simple meals. You may be asked to give a testimony, or sing a hymn. Bathing and washing clothes in the river. Safe drinking water ice and soft drinks will be provided. This trip is a great adventure for men and women of all ages. Fishing for fish is a favorite when not fishing for men. Please email Pastor Jack at hope4streetkids@gmail.com for dates & complete info. regarding this ministry opportunity. SEE Language Note below
Long term experience 12 weeks This is a total missionary experience. You will experience day to day living conditions, and all the trials of a new missionary. This is a no frills packet, but loaded with valuable life experiences. Not for the uncommitted. You will be involved in every aspect of the HCS program and our church ministry. You will perform, basic tasks; cooking, cleaning, cloths washing, for the boys, and for church events, You will evangelize, help in church services, and service preparation, community visitation, medical aid, and possibly help us as we continue to build, all the while studying the Portuguese language. You will help with volunteer teams. Your meals will be local cuisine, fish, chicken, fish, rice, potatoes, fish , tomatoes, cabbage, and other veggies you would not recognize, along with local wildlife and more fish. The fruit is wonderful, along with their juices. The homemade bread is absolutely out of this world! There is a small generator for lights and fans for about 3-4 hours each night. We accept young men and women 18 and older who can qualify and believe they can Hack It.. Please email Pastor Jack at hope4streetkids@gmail.com for complete info. regarding this ministry opportunity.
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who live and work on the streets in
Brazil alone. Most of these children
(75%) have some family links but
spend most of their lives on the
streets . 
Volunteer
River house, located across from the
HCS Boys Home. This is a
floating dormitory with a large
screened front porch. There are good
comfortable single beds, hot water
showers, and flushing toilets. All
meals are included. There is a
generator for lights & fans at
night. Laundry service is provided
while at the camp at no cost.
Please see the links in yellow for
more info. 
When
a Brazilian can speak
good English, he is able find a good
job in Brazil. 
