Blue Cross Ministry
This ministry is started of Simon Peter Nanayakkara, who after his salvation 18 years ago started to help people. Simon was before his salvation a drug addict, he used heroin in over ten years, but when he meet Jesus his life got totally transformed. Together with Jesus he got the strength to get free from his heroin addiction.
After his salvation he started together with his family to help people in his village, Poddala outside Galle in south of Sri Lanka. Simon and his family helped pour people and helped them with their needs; at that time gave they out bicycles, and they gave wheelchairs and other equipment to handicaps. Under this time brought Simon many people to Christ, especially drugaddicters. He witnessed to them about Jesus and helped them to get free from their addiction, today many of them are serving God.
In many years we continued to help people in different sorts of ways, then we decided to start an organization of the ministry we done under past years. Second of April 2005 started we an organization and gave it the name Blue cross Ministry. At the same day we opened our new build prayer house. It is a house that Christian people can use for prayer and for spending time with God. Every morning we also gather there for praying together for the day. When we were building up the prayer house and also many other times when we do ministry, we meet hard situations. We are a Christian ministry, and this area is a bit hard to Christian people because they are minority in the Sri Lankan society. But when we have meet hard times from the society and when we will meet it in the future, God is always with us and through his grace we come out stronger on the other side. After we had gone through this hard situation and started the organization Blue cross Ministry we did continue to do different sort of ministry to help people. Today many unchristian people also appreciate and are happy that we do this ministry and help people.
Fifth of January 2008 got Amila Nanayakkara the leadership of Blue Cross Ministry, and he is now leading this ministry.
Here follows a list with different works we done to help people:
- Helped pour families to build up their houses and well (2002-2006)
- Helped handicap people to provide their needs and equipment, as giving them wheelchair, crutches and mattresses
- We have under many years been giving spectacles to people. In the whole world it is common with bad sight, or problems with the eyes. Many pour people have sight problem but does not afford to buy spectacles. We are very happy that we can help them through giving them spectacles free, many of the spectacles are used before but still they are better then no spectacles. People often come to our ministry and ask for spectacles, sometimes we collect much spectacles from abroad and organize a day and give out much spectacles.
- Giving bicycles to poor families (2002,2003)
- We sponsored children in one pour family with school material, and their needs in life (in three years)
- We gave electricity to pour homes that didn’t have electricity.
Tsunami
26 December 2004 hitted the Tsunami Sri Lanka very hardly, the effects of the Tsunami in south of Sri Lanka was very big. We (Blue cross ministry) did many things with the resources we had to help people;
- After the Tsunami had come did we bring water to people that didn’t have any clean water to drink
- We gave cloths to people that had lost their homes
- We gave out food to people
- We gathered many children that was affected of the Tsunami and gave them what they need in school, as schoolbags, books, pens, food boxes, and bottles
- We taught children how to use computer. In continually six month we did learn pour children about computer technology.
- We organized a day when we teach to farmers how to get much harvest of their agriculture and how to make homemade fertilizer which is good for the nature. (2005)
- 2005 did we start to organize free medical clinic, many people comes to the clinics to meet a doctor and get free treatment, and free medicine for their sicknesses. The people that come are pour, and do not always afford to buy medicine, so they are very happy that they can get medicine free. We have this year 2008 started to organize clinics every month. Every medical clinic do 120-200 people come.
- We build a well and a washing place for the village people. Many people do not have a well and do not have clean water to drink. This well and washing place has been and are a help to many people, so that they can drink clean water and wash themselves and their cloths. (2006)
- In our ministry we have many chairs, plates, glass, big cooking pots and generators, that we let others use and that people can borrow for; funerals, churches for their different ministries, outside crusades and for other common good things in society,
- We showed a movie about Jesus for the village people and after the movie did we witness for them about Jesus. (2007)
- We organized a day for youth. Youth from different churches and from this village came. We started the day with eating food together, then we had a good time playing funny games, finally we did share the word of God and had a good time of prayer together. ( 2007)
- Christmas 2007 we did a Christmas programme for pour children. We gave them Christmas present, showed them a Christmas drama and shared the gospel with them.
- Sometimes we visit an orphanage and play with the children. The Christmas 2007 we organized a programme for them, we shared the gospel with them and showed Jesus love to them and gave them food and candy.
- The Christmas 2007 did we also visit a Buddhist elders home. We witnessed for them and singed Christmas songs for them and gave the elders presents.
- We visit Christian families and non Christian families and share the word of god with them, witness for them and pray with them, sometimes we also have the joy to bring people to Christ.
- When we do some program we co-operate with people from different churches, and we invite people from different churches to visit and help out in our ministry.
2008 - Main works
- Fifth of January 2008 did Amila Nanayakkara begin his leadership in Blue Cross Ministry, same day we did organize a day when we gave out spectacles.
- We are giving out free English classes to children and youth every Monday and Tuesday, so that they can improve in their English knowledge.
- 24 of January, 21 of February, and 25 of March we did organize free medical clinic.
- 6 of March 2008 did we start a youth club. It is a club for youth in the age of 12-17 where they can meet and have a good time together, play games together and build good relationship to each other. We do also encourage them to do good things for the society. The youth club is gathering together every Wednesday.
- 18 of April we (Blue cross ministry) did together with the youth in our youth club organize a New Year competition for the village people. In Sri Lanka do people celebrate Singhalese and Tamil New Year one week in April, it is a big celebration. The competition was under a whole day. We did many funny competitions and people had a very good time, at the end of the day we gave prices to the winners. About 250 people came.
-10 June, 15 of July, 8 of September, 23 of October and 28 of November organized we free medical clinic for the village people.
- 29 of July did we go on a trip with 25 youths in the youth club to a boy orphanage, Where 16 orphans lives. We had a very good time together with them. We played games and singed songs together. We also brought gifts to the boys in the orphanage, it was schoolbooks, pens, pencils and erasers.
- In September started we to give scholarship to underprivileged children that live a very hard life. With help from sponsors, that sponsor one specific child, are we able to give a monthly scholarship that goes for the child’s need. As food, clothes, schoolmaterial, medicine and other needs in the child’s life. We started with one child, today have we more children that receiving scholarship, but we searching for more sponsors, as we know many children with big needs.
-29 of September, ended we our English classes for this year. We gave every student that had attended under a long time a certificate. We celebrated the last day.
-The 23 December 2008, arranged Blue Cross Ministry our yearly christmasprogramme for children in our village, Poddala. This year received 190 children schoolbooks in age of six to eleven years; we also provided small dolls to children under school age. It was a great day. We started it with Christmas songs, witnesses and preach about Jesus. Finally Santa Claus came, and the children received their gift.
This ministry is started of Simon Peter Nanayakkara, who after his salvation 18 years ago started to help people. Simon was before his salvation a drug addict, he used heroin in over ten years, but when he meet Jesus his life got totally transformed. Together with Jesus he got the strength to get free from his heroin addiction.
After his salvation he started together with his family to help people in his village, Poddala outside Galle in south of Sri Lanka. Simon and his family helped pour people and helped them with their needs; at that time gave they out bicycles, and they gave wheelchairs and other equipment to handicaps. Under this time brought Simon many people to Christ, especially drugaddicters. He witnessed to them about Jesus and helped them to get free from their addiction, today many of them are serving God.
In many years we continued to help people in different sorts of ways, then we decided to start an organization of the ministry we done under past years. Second of April 2005 started we an organization and gave it the name Blue cross Ministry. At the same day we opened our new build prayer house. It is a house that Christian people can use for prayer and for spending time with God. Every morning we also gather there for praying together for the day. When we were building up the prayer house and also many other times when we do ministry, we meet hard situations. We are a Christian ministry, and this area is a bit hard to Christian people because they are minority in the Sri Lankan society. But when we have meet hard times from the society and when we will meet it in the future, God is always with us and through his grace we come out stronger on the other side. After we had gone through this hard situation and started the organization Blue cross Ministry we did continue to do different sort of ministry to help people. Today many unchristian people also appreciate and are happy that we do this ministry and help people.
Fifth of January 2008 got Amila Nanayakkara the leadership of Blue Cross Ministry, and he is now leading this ministry.
Here follows a list with different works we done to help people:
- Helped pour families to build up their houses and well (2002-2006)
- Helped handicap people to provide their needs and equipment, as giving them wheelchair, crutches and mattresses
- We have under many years been giving spectacles to people. In the whole world it is common with bad sight, or problems with the eyes. Many pour people have sight problem but does not afford to buy spectacles. We are very happy that we can help them through giving them spectacles free, many of the spectacles are used before but still they are better then no spectacles. People often come to our ministry and ask for spectacles, sometimes we collect much spectacles from abroad and organize a day and give out much spectacles.
- Giving bicycles to poor families (2002,2003)
- We sponsored children in one pour family with school material, and their needs in life (in three years)
- We gave electricity to pour homes that didn’t have electricity.
Tsunami
26 December 2004 hitted the Tsunami Sri Lanka very hardly, the effects of the Tsunami in south of Sri Lanka was very big. We (Blue cross ministry) did many things with the resources we had to help people;
- After the Tsunami had come did we bring water to people that didn’t have any clean water to drink
- We gave cloths to people that had lost their homes
- We gave out food to people
- We gathered many children that was affected of the Tsunami and gave them what they need in school, as schoolbags, books, pens, food boxes, and bottles
- We taught children how to use computer. In continually six month we did learn pour children about computer technology.
- We organized a day when we teach to farmers how to get much harvest of their agriculture and how to make homemade fertilizer which is good for the nature. (2005)
- 2005 did we start to organize free medical clinic, many people comes to the clinics to meet a doctor and get free treatment, and free medicine for their sicknesses. The people that come are pour, and do not always afford to buy medicine, so they are very happy that they can get medicine free. We have this year 2008 started to organize clinics every month. Every medical clinic do 120-200 people come.
- We build a well and a washing place for the village people. Many people do not have a well and do not have clean water to drink. This well and washing place has been and are a help to many people, so that they can drink clean water and wash themselves and their cloths. (2006)
- In our ministry we have many chairs, plates, glass, big cooking pots and generators, that we let others use and that people can borrow for; funerals, churches for their different ministries, outside crusades and for other common good things in society,
- We showed a movie about Jesus for the village people and after the movie did we witness for them about Jesus. (2007)
- We organized a day for youth. Youth from different churches and from this village came. We started the day with eating food together, then we had a good time playing funny games, finally we did share the word of God and had a good time of prayer together. ( 2007)
- Christmas 2007 we did a Christmas programme for pour children. We gave them Christmas present, showed them a Christmas drama and shared the gospel with them.
- Sometimes we visit an orphanage and play with the children. The Christmas 2007 we organized a programme for them, we shared the gospel with them and showed Jesus love to them and gave them food and candy.
- The Christmas 2007 did we also visit a Buddhist elders home. We witnessed for them and singed Christmas songs for them and gave the elders presents.
- We visit Christian families and non Christian families and share the word of god with them, witness for them and pray with them, sometimes we also have the joy to bring people to Christ.
- When we do some program we co-operate with people from different churches, and we invite people from different churches to visit and help out in our ministry.
2008 - Main works
- Fifth of January 2008 did Amila Nanayakkara begin his leadership in Blue Cross Ministry, same day we did organize a day when we gave out spectacles.
- We are giving out free English classes to children and youth every Monday and Tuesday, so that they can improve in their English knowledge.
- 24 of January, 21 of February, and 25 of March we did organize free medical clinic.
- 6 of March 2008 did we start a youth club. It is a club for youth in the age of 12-17 where they can meet and have a good time together, play games together and build good relationship to each other. We do also encourage them to do good things for the society. The youth club is gathering together every Wednesday.
- 18 of April we (Blue cross ministry) did together with the youth in our youth club organize a New Year competition for the village people. In Sri Lanka do people celebrate Singhalese and Tamil New Year one week in April, it is a big celebration. The competition was under a whole day. We did many funny competitions and people had a very good time, at the end of the day we gave prices to the winners. About 250 people came.
-10 June, 15 of July, 8 of September, 23 of October and 28 of November organized we free medical clinic for the village people.
- 29 of July did we go on a trip with 25 youths in the youth club to a boy orphanage, Where 16 orphans lives. We had a very good time together with them. We played games and singed songs together. We also brought gifts to the boys in the orphanage, it was schoolbooks, pens, pencils and erasers.
- In September started we to give scholarship to underprivileged children that live a very hard life. With help from sponsors, that sponsor one specific child, are we able to give a monthly scholarship that goes for the child’s need. As food, clothes, schoolmaterial, medicine and other needs in the child’s life. We started with one child, today have we more children that receiving scholarship, but we searching for more sponsors, as we know many children with big needs.
-29 of September, ended we our English classes for this year. We gave every student that had attended under a long time a certificate. We celebrated the last day.
-The 23 December 2008, arranged Blue Cross Ministry our yearly christmasprogramme for children in our village, Poddala. This year received 190 children schoolbooks in age of six to eleven years; we also provided small dolls to children under school age. It was a great day. We started it with Christmas songs, witnesses and preach about Jesus. Finally Santa Claus came, and the children received their gift.
Blue Cross Ministry
