Dear friends and partners, Grace and peace to you and your family from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Words were insufficient to express the joy of a mother from Liberia in West Africa, who was informed that her son’s schooling would be fully paid up for one year. This mother had been praying desperately to God for the money to pay for her son’s education. In Liberia, women like her work hard all day selling donuts and other traditional items, but earn less than $1.00 a day. Unknown to her, New City Fellowship and faithful partners like you, had begun to support children’s education in West Africa, through Christian Foundation for Education (CFE). When she learned that her son received a CFE scholarship for one year at Kingdom School in Liberia, she started running back and forth from the school to her house shouting joyously, her face littered with tears of gratitude and relief. It takes as little as US$100.00 for one full year of primary or high school education, yet this is way beyond the reach of so many families in Liberia, Togo and Burkina Faso, where war, oppression and poverty have left parents hopeless about their children’s future. CFE’s goal is to provide financial and spiritual support to children and youth who are impoverished, to help them achieve a sound education and go on to be leaders in their various spheres of endeavor. We began responding to this need by sponsoring just a handful of children. With your support, we now cater to 81 children across the three West African countries, sending them to institutions like Kingdom School, where there is a commitment to providing quality education in the context of the life-changing message of the gospel. We also want to expend the ministry in other countries in West Africa like Niger, Benin, Senegal, Ivory Coast and Mali. We are truly grateful for how you have helped make the dreams of these parents and children become more of a possibility. We urge you to partner with us again to help these children for the upcoming academic year (2008-2009) by taking on a full scholarship of $100.00 or by sponsoring a child in part. These scholarships cover, tuition, school supplies and uniforms, but most of all, they give hope to a child, to a family, and the future leadership within these West African nations. It is a great investment! If you believe God is leading you to invest in this mission to transform the lives of these destitute and orphan children, please make your check payable to New City Fellowship and send it to: New City at 1142 Hodiamont Avenue, St Louis MO63112 and include CFE in the Memo line. Thank you again and may the Lord of all grace, bless you and keep you, may He make His face to shine upon you and give you peace. Macklann Basse Director CFE International http://cfeducation.blogspot.com/

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Beginning of CFE International IN 2003, while living in Lexington Kentucky, Macklann and Rose Bassé began receiving emails from their home country, Togo, about children in hard situations needing help to go to school. Macklann and Rose, both sharing a heart for the impoverished child, were troubled by this and desired deeply for God’s restoration for these children. As the emails continued over the year, they both began to pray more intensely about how they might best help these children. In 2004, after having moved to Saint Louis, they felt led to support these children through education. With the help they received from students at Covenant Seminary, the Bassé’s were able to support two children for the 2004-2005 school year. · SINCE THAT TIME, not only are those two children still being supported, but also an additional eighteen were added by way of other donors. This made a total of twenty Togolese children and youth attending school this year that gained their support from generous hearts around the world. · This current 2006 school year we have twenty children supported at an average cost of one hundred dollars per child. As stated in our objectives, this amount pays for all school fees, uniforms, materials and transportation. The children will continue to receive this same support each school year. · BEGINNING IN TOGO was a natural starting point for CFE, as it is home to both Macklann and Rose. In addition to this, Togo has been without financial assistance for more than fifteen years due to a militaristic regime, which has been ruling for over forty years. Thus making Togo a country filled with many children in desolate living conditions. · · Expanding efforts for Phase One of the ministry, CFE has chosen Liberia and Burkina Faso. There are many Christian brothers and sisters from Liberia who attend Macklann’s home church who have shared their personal concerns for their loved ones still there. Burkina Faso has been chose because a relationship has already begun with a local orphanage to Yako called Sheltering Wings Orphanage (Macklann made a trip there over Christmas 2005 ). · AS THE LORD WILLS IT, CFE will continue to support more children of West Africa through a step-wise, slow and cautious pace to ensure that Christ’s love is felt in the hearts of both the impoverished children and those that are working hard to support them. The 2006-2007 school year we hope to support a total of eighty children, 40 from Togo and 20 from Liberia and 20 from Burkina Faso.

CFE International Conference in Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou: January 7 -10 , 2008. Participants came from Togo, Liberia, Niger, USA and Burkina Faso.