What We are All About

4/16/2011

Dare to Care, Inc. is a not for profit agency with 501c3, formed in Illinois that ministers to the impoverished and downtrodden in Nepal, half a world away. They currently have 8 ministries active in meeting tangible needs in a country recovering from a 12 year war between the communist rebels and the government that ended 2 years ago when the Maoists were elected into power with a 23% majority. Thousands are hurting in the aftermath and Dare to Care is seeking to support and encourage orphans, widows and single moms to get a hand up, not just a hand out.

We do this with an orphanage (21 kids, some rescued from the streets) in Kathmandu, 2 women’s ministries where women are taught income generating skills and offered microloans to begin their own cottage industry enterprises. Knitting, crocheting, beading and baking are some of the skills producing positive results for our widows and single moms.

We also have a radio broadcast targeting illiterate women and families teaching them they are loved and valued for the first time in their lives. Praise God this is in their own dialect for the first time ever!

Another ministry project we have undertaken is assisting a Leprosy Colony in farming techniques. We have helped them hand dig a 100 foot deep irrigation well to improve their agricultural yields and build a church in their community. Animal husbandry and kitchen gardening are also being offered to them.

A Dal/Bhat (soup) kitchen quietly serves the homeless and impoverished, creating an immediate opportunity to share the Gospel with these hurting and poor.

Dawn Bove, is the founder and CEO of Dare to Care,inc. started in 2004. She regularly visits Nepal staying from 2-8 months each visit to personally supervise the projects and provide training and support for each of the ministries. God is doing GREAT things through your prayers and support for this important organization impacting thousands with the gospel and love of Jesus.

Please pray for the following:

1)         Millions Will hear of God’s love for them and make a decision to live for Christ through the aired broadcasts 3x week. It takes $300.00/ month to sustain this ministry.

2)         Pray for the funds to support the air time and technical production of the programs.  Pray for those creating the messages to be inspired by the Holy Spirit and able to creatively communicate God’s love through them.

3)         Pray for the women making their handicrafts to grasp the love of Christ and in turn share it with others. Two of these are paraplegic women with many needs. Also pray we will find suitable markets for their products.

4)         Pray for the Leprosy community. They feel ostracized and isolated and fearful of the future in their poverty.

5)         Pray for our administration staff as they try to make Godly decisions and wisely use the resources we have been entrusted with to make the biggest impact for His glory.

6)         Dawn’s next trip… aiming for April, 2011 and for the resources necessary to get there/take there.  She desires to raise full support to be able to go full time as a missionary to Nepal.

7)         The roof is on the new bakery and we are ready to install plumbing and buy an industrial oven! This will be the first “starbucks” and bakery in western Nepal. 

hey ... if you are not doing anything today would you wanna catch a flight to Nepal??

4/16/11

Hey everyone!

Thanks sooooooo much for your prayers for journey mercies! I have arrived... I am in one piece and saw God's hand at work on my behalf several times in the last 3 days!

First I thank God for my dear friend Anne who called me up Thursday AM with the question " hey ... if you are not doing anything today would you wanna catch a flight to Nepal??" of course I answered affirmatively and invited her along! She agreed to go as far as SeaTac airport with me and so ... my ride to the airport was confirmed. We made good time to the airport and on the way I shared my secret prayer that the rules would have changed and I wouldn't have to collect my luggage in LAX and schlep it all through the airport to the international terminal. I also had 20# extra in one suitcase and was prepared to pay an extra $50 to take it with me.

Within minutes of arriving at SeaTac both prayers were answered. Alaska Air was able to book my luggage straight through to K-du and they could not find Korean Air's policy or fee schedule for excess baggage after 10 minutes of researching it in the computer, so let me take the extra 21.6 # on for free muttering the whole while "if Korean wanted them to charge me for that then they should put it in black and white!"

The trip was long and virtually uneventful... oh except the Korean lady behind me that got up for her 4th trip to the lav and fainted in the aisle... it was the only spot on the whole plane where there was actually room for a body to lay fully extended... so she didn't hit her head and there was actually room to assist her without being right on top of her! I tried to help but the flight had a team of 10 Korean Dr.s on which somehow trumped my ER experience... So I did crowd control... "please, Ladies and gentleman... step back and give her some air... give her some space… let her breathe... yes she is breathing... she has a strong pulse...The Dr.s will give us an update in a few minutes... uh huh she is stable". All the Dr's did was take her BP about 7 X and then sit her up and assist her back to her seat... end of their obligation! Not that there was much more that could be done 3 hours out of K-du. She looked pale for about an hour. I suggested to the flight attendants to get her 3 seats together and let her stretch out, help her push clear fluids and provide her with an ice pack and a cool washcloth for her head... They jumped right on it and at least made her comfortable in this respect and by the time we landed she was doing "quite well" she said in her broken English.

I have recovered from my jet lag... I think. It has taken a couple days... I keep wanting to nod off at 4 pm!

Today I attended a new Nepali fellowship... my little friend that sells me tapestries has been very interested in my faith, asking many questions... I took him to a fellowship gathering last time I was here. He says he has gone twice since, on his own, and gotten many of his questions answered! We tried a new one nearer his home today... Funny... didn't think I'd know a soul there, but ran into a person I had met before in Dadeldhura and she introduced me to relatives of two others I knew! Of the millions of souls in K-du I would not have presumed the "degree of 6's" would work so well in a foreign culture.

H… R…, the tapestry seller, insists on taking me where I need to go on the back of his bike. Speeding all over K-du on the back of a motorbike scares the bejeebies out of me so pray for my safety as I tool around. I know there are angels watching over me... just too many narrow escapes for there not to be!

This evening I invited all the Kids from Dadeldhura that are currently in K-du to join me for dinner. D…. with OM is here with a group of 9 youth from two of our fellowships in Dadeldhura for a conference plus about 12 who are going to college here. Turns out they were already meeting at the Nobles for a meeting so they invited me there and it was truly exciting to see 25 young people worshipping God and praising Him and planning how they can impact Nepal for Him. I took them all out for momos (Tibetan dumplings) and sodas after! All three of my landlord and the bakery owner’s daughters were there! They all go to school here in K-du now!

My landlord called this AM with the dimensions for the space for the oven. So one of his daughters, D…, and I will go oven hunting tomorrow. God has given me 2 business people who run restaurants/ hotels, who have given me the same lead for a kitchen factory and supply store so we will start there with our research. On the dimension issue: there is plenty of space for a big 36x36 oven! The problem comes in that they didn't think about how to get it through the 30" door! Pray for how we will accomplish this! One solution might be to peel back the new tin roof and lower it into place and then replace the roof! I'll try to get pix! This could be good!

Praise God He has already supplied a ride for me and the oven back to Dadeldhura! Turns out the hospital vehicle from there arrived here, this afternoon and the administrator offered to T… D…., "to bring back anything for the bakery... even an oven” if he wished, so I guess he is eager for the bakery to open. He is not usually so charitable! Looks like God has prepared the way before me and tonight I was able to confirm that there is room for me in the vehicle too! This is a huge relief to me. Yeah!!! No bus ride this time!!!

Some of you know the consternation I have endured trying to anticipate how to transport an oven over that sorry stretch of highway! It turns out they are planning to head back just a day after the date I picked as my target day to head west!(Wednesday?) Praise God!

Well the power just went out so rather than hunt and peck in the dark... will save this till the power comes back on and then send it to you all.

Keep those prayers comin'... they are being heard and answered!

Dawn Didi

D2C Orphanage

4/9/11

Pray for an opportunity to get our Dare to Care orphanage on the docket with 5 other organizations for support from New Life church. If you go on line and pull up New Life... click on the " 5000" and email your request to add our organization to the ones already there as a contender for people to sponsor our kids too. We have 21 kids now and only 9 have sponsors. So this would be a big blessing if it can be arranged and our voice heard too! YAH!!!!

Call or email me pronto if you are sending things with me so we can connect. Tuesday at 2 is my departure and it’s rushing towards me! Thanks for all your prayers and support! You are the best!!!!!!
Dawn

I am home but not without adventure!

1/12/11

Thanks everyone for your prayers! I am home but not without adventure!

Just once... just once!!!I'd love to be able to travel ... anywhere without an adventure! Couldn't I just have a normal, run of the mill, uneventful journey????

I was scheduled to leave Chicago at 3:30 pm yesterday but due to the storms across the country we never got off the ground till after 8 PM, putting me into SeaTac airport at precisely 11:11 PM on 1/11/11. But that meant I missed the 11:20 air porter by the time I collected my luggage. The 12:20 air porter was about 45 minutes late due to the falling snow and slushy streets and held only 24 passengers so the remaining 28 of us had to wait till the 4:20 AM air porter ( the other buses to ferry had ceased for the night by this time). It was an hour late and 24 people pushed ahead of me leaving me again standing in the cold! This time the driver felt sorry enough for me to give me a priority pass for the next shuttle so I actually made it on the 5:20 (albeit it too was an hour late). I finally made it into Port Orchard at 7 AM and Diane sweetly obliged to rescue me at that hour and get me to my own home and my own bed about 7:30 AM!

Those of you who do not travel much cannot appreciate the joy and relief of collapsing into one's own bed after 10 weeks away! I highly recommend it sometime... just for the experience of it and to appreciate what you have been taking for granted for so long!

Today after sleeping most of the day, I verbally wrestled with Quest to re-establish phone and internet service for almost 2 hours! I had a work order to have that done yesterday... but they insist someone made 97 calls total from my line to "directory assistance" daily between Nov 11th and the 26th, as well as 8 long distance calls all over the country while I was away and until I pay the $193.03 for that, I cannot have my service reinstated!!!!! I finally convinced the girl I would fax a copy of my itinerary once she reestablishes my fax line, proving I have been out of the country these last 3 months! This is a total mystery how this could have happened.
I think they will get me functional after 3 business days... so no service for 6 days more.

Please call me on my cell phone if you need to contact me as I'm in limbo and at the mercy of the phone company till Tuesday!

Other than a dead rat in the basement (he apparently took the bait I laid out a month ago) and the viscuine blown off the garage roof, things seem pretty much in place. I look forward to getting settled back into living in my own home and finding a job here as soon as possible.

My friends Bert and Karen have treated me to a fine dinner at their house tonight and generously shared their internet ... I am so grateful!

Hope to see many of you in the near future... I have missed you so much!
Blessings and wishing you all safety, warmth and joy in the days ahead!