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February, 2013

                                 Our Day Care and Preschool is growing steadily. Enrollment jumped from 14 students in                                  October to 22 students in December! We produced positive revenue every month in the fourth quarter of 2013 with total revenues to the Church of just about $3,000 for the quarter.

About 90% of our revenue comes from Day Care with the remaining 10% from Preschool. Preschool programs are easy to establish and there are many local preschools, but programs are limited to 2 1/2 hours maximum per day. Our Day Care license is much more difficult to obtain and maintain, but it allows us to keep children a full day. Many of our families are able to hold down jobs because of the high quality, reliable, affordable childcare we provide to the community. In December, our initial two year Day Care license was renewed for an additional four year period.

After months of heroic effort by Church volunteers, our growth is allowing us to hire more paid teachers, aides, and our new Childcare Director Ms. Amy Bowman, while still generating net positive revenue. Volunteers will continue to be an important part of our Childcare plan, but it's nice to give them a break.

We are actually approaching our licensed enrollment capacity on some days so work is underway to furnish and license two additional rooms, which will nearly double our capacity.

Thanks be to God for His grace and to all the many people whose prayers and service together have brought us through tough times to this level of success. Please keep the Childcare Ministry in your prayers as we begin our third year of service.