Category: Nigeria

Prayer requests for Susana Homes

Susana Homes in Nigeria

This year marks 25 years of Southside’s partnership with Susana Homes. With Kay Price taking a yearly trip to visit and encourage while also doing medical clinics in the prison and villages, Southside has maintained an annual presence in the lives of “Mama” Chi, the staff and the children. Overseen by Right Steps here in the U.S., Susana Homes has been serving the children, women and general population around Port Harcourt, Nigeria, for 25 blessing-filled years!!

Check out Susana Homes at https://www.rightsteps.org/ or on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/rightsteps.

A Note from Chi with Prayer Requests

Beloved of God,

We came close to losing our home and our work here in Nigeria this past year and a half!

But our all-knowing father-in heaven has changed our hardship into a harvest of praise!

In the near future, we will have another campus of Susana Homes, closer to town, and continue to serve the orphans, the needy, and all those who thirst and hunger for the love and light of God! We couldn’t ask for more!

However; we continue to seek His divine guidance specifically for the new endeavors and the outreach efforts farther away and beyond our immediate environment.

We pray for God’s divine guidance as we receive the first batch of students, in January, and into The Jan & Sue Blackwell Institute of Biblical Studies and Christian Living Center.

We ask prayers for the commencement of The Right Steps Institute of Management and Technology, Right Steps and Susana Homes efforts at equipping our young for a life of purpose!

We ask for prayers for the dedicated men and women who have joined our ranks in recent days and whom God is going to use to start this new phase of our work here in Nigeria!

More than anything else, pray God to keep us humble, serving, open, and ready for the new challenges that we are certain lurk in the future.

Pray for divine blessings on all those that our Father uses to keep this work going in one form or another!

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Right Steps sends plea for support

An update from the board of Right Steps, Inc., which oversees the work of Susana Homes in Nigeria, one of the mission areas supported by Southside members.

Due to environmental and safety concerns, Right Steps Inc. made the decision to relocate many of the younger children at Susana Homes to a rented house in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Additionally, Right Steps has successfully built a new campus for the Right Steps Christian School closer to the village, which has been thriving.

At this time, Right Steps plans to maintain both the Port Harcourt residence and the new school campus. A number of children continue to reside at the original Susana Homes campus, where agricultural projects remain ongoing.

Launch of new educational institute

Now the Right Steps board is announcing a new educational initiative that will use the facilities of the Right Steps Christian School to create the Right Steps Institute of Management and Technology – education at the junior college level, with the aspiration of evolving into a full-fledged four-year degree-granting institution in the future.

This institute will provide educational paths in:

  • child care
  • computer technology
  • medical technician training
  • ministry

Financial support is essential. Right Steps is seeking startup funds of approximately $7,000 USD per month. These funds will cover instructor and staff salaries, generator fuel, upkeep expenses and essential supplies.

In addition, Right Steps is seeking your assistance to secure necessary supplies for the institute.

Please read the letter below for a list of needs, and consider a financial donation as well to make the Right Steps Institute of Management and Technology a reality.

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To donate to the creation of the Right Steps Institute of Management and Technology

Send a check to Right Steps, Inc. with the word “Institute” in the memo line. Mail it to Right Steps, Inc., P.O. Box 458, Snellville, GA 30078. Read the letter above for more information.

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Kay Price and Terence Proctor visit Susana Homes

Kay Price (Auntie Kay) and Terence Proctor landed in Nigeria early last week for their annual trip to see Mama Chi and the children at Susana Homes. From being met by a grateful Chi, to being met by the children with lots of hugs and tears, to the children’s eager anticipation, to getting a medical checkup from Auntie Kay, the trip got underway with an emotional bang!!

All praise to God for their safe trip and the love that is being spread around! May their second week be as full of blessings as the first!!

Terrence Proctor with children of Susana Homes in Nigeria.
Kay Price greets two of the girls staying at Susana Homes.
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Report from Nigeria

I hope everyone is doing well.  Terrence and I arrived safely and have already had a busy week.  We are with Chi and the children at the house in Port Harcourt.  Terrence has been working on projects at the house and at Susana Homes while I’ve been at clinic.

My first clinic this week was at the prison with Brother Friday Adima. Brother Friday has been doing this ministry at the Abia State Prison since Bob came with Chi in 1998! 

The prison currently houses 700 male prisoners and 37 females. Most of the men are relatively young men in what would be their most productive years. Because Nigeria operates under the premise that you are guilty until proven innocent, prisoners are confined for years before going in front of a judge.  A 32-year-old prisoner I saw in clinic this week told me he had been before the judge the week before and that he would receive a favorable judgement. He was so happy with the thought that he could see his mother soon. She is frail and not able to visit him in the prison. He’s been incarcerated for 7 years! There are no pictures of this clinic – for security reasons.

I also finally got to go back to Pong for clinic. We went there four years ago when the Noblitts and Wallers were with us. There is no health care in this community. This was a church plant from the Elami church, where I will be on Sunday. The church is about 90 minutes south of Port Harcourt on the coast.  We saw about 55 in clinic. 

Kay Price sees patients in clinic.

Yesterday I got to do market clinic which is one of my favorites.  There are several women from church who have stalls at the market, so there is always someone there I know.  I walk through the market and let people know I’m checking blood pressure.  We then have those with high BP come to the clinic at Susana Homes so we can recheck their BP and provide them medicine.

Local markets are a great opportunity to hold a clinic.

This morning we are off again Susana Homes because it is Graduation.  It will be a day of celebration for all kids.  We brought new outfits for the graduates and everyone has been cooking for a couple of days for the party!

I have clinics planned all next week and we’ll be home next Sunday night. 

 We are praying for those in Eastern Kentucky affected by the flooding.  – Kay Price

Postscript: So I managed to leave out the most important part about being at the prison!  There were 18 men baptized while I was there!  Each had been participating in Bible study with either Brother Friday or his associate.  It was amazing to see the joy that these men had despite being in prison. – Kay

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Prayer needs & praises at Susana Homes

Praise

Krissy, one of the first 5 children to come into Susana Homes in November of 1998 has achieved the greatest goals and dreams of every single Nigerian young adult – She is receiving a university education while leaving the country for greener pastures. This is a huge step in the life of Susana Homes and Right Steps Inc.

Prayers

Please keep Krissy in God’s presence through prayers. Getting her into another country is a small part of this initiative. Finding a niche and making a go at life there is going to be the true test of this endeavor.

An endeavor is underway for a current transition effort to prepare the home and the work for the future. Pray that God blesses this effort and helps them accomplish His purpose and His will.

Bad roads near Susana Homes

Prayers are needed for the general situation of things around Susana Homes. The pandemic, lack of work and the bad roads (which are much worse than at anytime previous) all are contributors. Each contribute to what has become a gradual shutting down of most activities around them, including Right Steps Christian Schools.

May God protect the home from the activities of those who steal crude oil from government pipelines, and the cruel activities of the scrap iron business nearby.

Pray for towns near Susana Homes and the general state of unrest in the south east part of the country.

Prayers requested for a smooth transition for all of our children who had to be reunited with birth families or emancipated in some fashion over the last 12 months.

May our good God and father who loves His own wherever they may be, continue to shepherd these young people and protect them as they grow and as they learn to fly the course of life!

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News from Right Steps

See the latest news posted from Right Steps, Inc., regarding Susana Homes in Nigeria. Inside, this message from Chi:

Dear Wonderful Family and Friends of Susana Homes!


Yes I am here; in God’s own country and waiting to complete my vaccinations before venturing out! And yes I am wearing my mask faithfully and so am not a danger to anybody!


And I bring you greetings from all our children – those resident at Susana Homes, those at the Right Steps Christian Schools, those at Church of Christ at Susana Homes, and those in our entire village – Umuahala-Obuzor, ASA! We are all thankful that you are fighting in our corner! And we praise God everyday for using you to rewrite our histories!


I had planned to be here till the end of July and perhaps 2nd week of August. But duty calls and I have to return to Nigeria at the end of June. I had looked forward to visiting in person; and just hugging your neck and because I have so missed you! I spent a total of 17 months in Nigeria and that is the longest I have stayed in Nigeria in the last 33 years! And it took its toll on me.


But God is good and since I got here the good doctor – my brother Phill Morris – is doing everything he can to make sure I can return with much better health! I am so thankful for the largeness of his heart!


Until I can see you again, remain blessed; and never forget how much you mean to us. – Chi and the children

See: Right Steps Newsletter, June 2021

Right Steps Newsletter, June 2021Download
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Time to empty those banks

Coins for Christ collects spare change.

Time to empty those Coins for Christ coin banks.  For the next four weeks, we will provide the normal coin depository in the Gathering Place for those who are meeting there. 

For those meeting in the auditorium, a temporary collection bin will be in the front foyer (it will be light green in color and have a sign on it). 

With our regular schedule being interrupted this year, the proceeds will be split between Nigeria and the Philippines.

If you are unfamiliar with the Coins For Christ program, please read this.

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