OI China PRAYER LETTER June 2013
“To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd. You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low. You, Lord, are my lamp; the Lord turns my darkness into light. With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.” ~ 2 Samuel 22:26 - 30 (NIV)
Praise the Lord, OI China once again received the Award of the Most Outstanding Microcredit Organisation from the Chinese Government of Suyu for its work in 2012. The Award recognises the professional financial service of the company and its contribution to the rural and poor community of China. A handsome financial prize was also granted to encourage the work of OI China.
Following the introduction of basic accident micro insurance services of OI China in 2012 the Chinese Government recognises the value and importance of this service to the rural communities now and granted a comprehensive insurance agency licence to OI China. OIC is able to develop and launch more rural insurance products in the future.
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Praise the Lord that, through His keeping and guidance, our clients in rural China, particularly those poultry farmers, had not been severely hurt by the H7N9 avian flu outbreak. During the last couple of months our staffs have been spending time to comfort and support our clients in many ways. First, they helped them to arrange a repayment deferment program to alleviate their burden while the market was stressed as a result of the outbreak. Secondly, they assisted those poultry and pig farmers to fill in applications for government aids. At the same time, they also advised and supervised the farmers to conduct an induced molting procedure to minimize the cost and damage. Lastly, OI China called upon all banks and financial institutions in Suqian during a government conference to sign an agreement to support the farmers at this difficult time. None of the farmers concerned suffered from coercive actions during this period. The government called off the outbreak alert on 18 June when it was over.
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Please pray for the preparation of OIC Internship Program 2013 and journey mercy of interns. There are 11 interns joining us this year from the USA. They come from various post graduate schools of universities, including the Johns Hopkins; Columbia; American; Azusa Pacific; UCLA and UCSD. Pray for the preparation of OIC summer English Camp and the new OIC summer music camp. OIC wishes to spread love and bring glory to His name through our caring services.
OIC Consolidated Statistics Loans Issued in USD Job Impact (Created / Sustained) Training & Coaching (person / hr) Micro-insurance (policies)
2009
2010
2011
2012
3,729,753 17,817 2,146 / 6,610 n/a
6,369,255 20,982 2,000 / 5,998 n/a
8,165,500 37,013 2,412 / 7,951 n/a
8,848,143 34,887 2,904 / 10,516 442
2013 YTD (30 Apr.) 1,574,556 4,725 560 / 1,096 149
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