We’re excited to announce that the Lifemax Market is now updated! The Market is the one-stop shop for all training tools and business resources.

ALL PROFITS from sales under the new “Training Tools” section will be donated to The Lifemax Foundation, our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. You’ll have the opportunity to receive educational training materials that will help propel your success, while at the same time making a substantial contribution to the community. 

Please check out the new Market and help us live out the Lifemax vision of Changing the Health and Wealth of the World. Again, 100% of profits will be used to empower others around the globe, and we’d love for you to be a part of it!

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On behalf of The DreamRunners NGO Zambia, a non-governmental organization specializing in the care of orphans & vulnerable children (OVCs), please accept our heartfelt gratitude for your most generous donation in support of the children of The Luya House Home for Boys in Lusaka, Zambia.

Your timely donation has not only enabled us to get current & pay ahead on our rent, but more importantly it has enabled us to initiate our first income-generating project, the rearing of 500 broiler chickens. We are so excited and enthusiastic about this project, as it is the first step in moving toward our goal of becoming a self-sustaining entity! Our children have been busily preparing the chicken house, which includes clearing the surrounding brush, scrubbing the floors & walls, spraying them with disinfectants, and sealing cracks & holes to prevent snakes from entering. Locks & chains have been installed on all access doors, preventing thieves from entering during the night. Proper lighting & heating bulbs have also been installed, allowing us to maintain the perfect temperature inside the house. Feed trays & drinker pans have been purchased, which must be continually raised up with ropes as the chickens grow, so their necks become long & strong. Bags of sawdust have been purchased which is strewn over the floor to absorb the chickens’ excrement.

An important component of our vision is to provide life-skills training for our children. By doing so, we are developing future business owners & entrepreneurs capable of sustaining themselves for the rest of their lives. In this vein, we sincerely thank you for your help in implementing our first life-skills training project, so that we may achieve our goal of securing a bright future for these vulnerable children under our care.

Thank you for taking an interest in the welfare & future of those less fortunate. May God richly bless you for your kind & generous hearts!

Sincerely yours,

Jackie

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After several long weeks and months of coordinating with Sealy’s global hospitality department (whose production facility is serendipitously located in Orlando, Fl.), sixty dual-sided mattresses featuring Posturepedic elements and a plush feel were locally crafted, and then shipped to the Nampula port in Africa.

The red tape of Customs and the other obstacles along the way were no match for the Lifemax Foundation! With a lot of perseverance and prayer; we were able to get the mattresses out of customs and delivered to the children.

“The great thing about this project was the fact that we not only helped the orphanage, but we also assisted the local economy by ordering and having the mattresses made here in Central Florida,” said Lifemax Founder Sherri Wear. “It was a win-win; we helped the children and the local community at the same time.

We at the Lifemax Foundation will continue to do our part to better the lives of children worldwide, no matter how long the tasks take.

Below is a great thank you letter we received from the orphanage.

Dear Lifemax Family,
Greetings from Africa! We hope that you are all well. We are all well here and filled with joy as we now write this.

We wish that we knew where to start in expressing our immense gratitude to you for the profound gift of 60 mattresses that you donated to our orphanage. The mattresses came to us right when we needed them most.

Our children all came from extreme poverty where they were sleeping on dirt floors and at the mercy of dangerous insects, animals, infection and disease. When they came to the orphanage, they first slept on straw mats, then metal beds, then foam pads, which have now badly deteriorated. It has always been our dream that our children would someday sleep on real, high quality mattresses, which cannot even be found in Mozambique.
When we learned that Lifemax was going to donate and send us top quality mattresses from the U.S., we were overwhelmed by God’s love coming down upon us through you. We cannot thank you enough for this extremely generous donation of the brand new Sealy mattresses and for your tremendous patience with us through all the struggles; we faced getting the mattresses out of the port. We wish you could all have seen in person the looks on the faces of the kids as the truck pulled into the orphanage with the mattresses on top.

Thank you for serving these children who were once “the least of these” and helping us provide them with a truly safe and comfortable place to live, sleep, and thrive. Thank you for your work in the Kingdom of God in serving these children.
Thank you so very much and may the Lord bless you.
Sincerely,
Victor and Christina Carlos
Evanjafrica Ministries
Nampula, Mozambique

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The Story:

It was early February 2011. A group of ladies had gathered together for their annual fundraiser out at Wild Dunes, Isle of Palms, South Carolina. Diana Westmoreland had rented out the beach house, as she had done for over 25 years, as a Christian Outreach ministry for the local community, today all had gathered to make fleece blankets for those in need within the Charleston area, each had a label stitched onto it which read “JESUS LOVES YOU” as a group we prayed over them asking GOD to reveal where they needed to be placed.

Today was a little different, as the leaders of the group had decided to give away door prizes (a pair of fabric making scissors) to each of the ladies that had participated in making the Blankets. This had been inspired mainly due to accidentally forgetting the bag of scissors at a previous meeting, but with a wish that this might inspire the ladies to catch the vision and start their own Blanket Ministries in the future, out in the community and around the world.

Within the next week, one of the ladies from the group, Elise Botero, started receiving the Japanese News on her TV, what was so interesting is that the Botero family does not have any type of TV cable in their home. After about a week of watching the Japanese News, her husband asked her, “why are we watching the news about Japan?” She answered him and said “I dont know but I guess we are supposed to”.

On Friday, March 11th 2011 at 5am in the Botero’s house, the radio came on and the first story that Elise and her husband Phillip heard was of the earthquake and tsunami that had hit JAPAN, Elise said to Phillip “that must be why we have been receiving the Japanese News, GOD was tendering our hearts towards the people of JAPAN”.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, March 15th 2011, another lady from the group, Susan Pritchard, who lives in Summerville, upon watching the morning news, and watching the suffering of the Japanese people, felt God stirr her heart into action, remembering that she had recently received a pair of scissors at the Blanket Ministry, and knew without a shadow of doubt, that the next Blankets we made at the beach house would be despatched to JAPAN.

On Wednesday, March 16th 2011, at the next Blanket meeting Susan and Elise approached the group to discuss and pray about where GOD was leading them in this new area of need!

All prayed and began to fundraise together, one of the ladies that had started the BLANKETS for BABIES ministry, Darnel Eller, had recently moved to North Carolina, she also joined the effort , new labels were ordered that read ‘ JESUS LOVES YOU JAPAN’ – and the JESUS IN JAPAN PROJECT took off!!

The Blankets for Babies Ministry was coming to a close for the season, so Elise and Susan made arrangements to meet at SEACOAST CHURCH- Longpoint- Mt Pleasant, in one of the trailers, throughout the summer months, over forty ladies and their families, and a special thank you here to Phillip, Gabriel and Jordan, completed approximately, Five Hundred Blankets!

God had provided all the funds needed to make all the blankets , through donations, and now came our next challenge, this was – how do we get them shipped to Japan, also an address to ship them to?

More Prayers, well as Susan had said ” do your best and HE will do the rest”.

Over the weeks that followed God continued to connect all the dots, needless to say HE built our faith tremendously!!

In July 2011, we were excited to get word, that Missionaries would be relocating from Brazil to Japan and would be there at the end of August, finally we had our contact on the ground and an address to ship the blankets to.

Susan had approached Lifemax Inc., the company she is a part of, about the Blanket’s endeavour, and they were also interested in helping the hurting People’s of JAPAN, they already exported Mila, which is the most nutrient dense whole raw food on the planet, to Japan, at the same time Janelle, a friend of Elise, who works for Delta Airlines joined the effort, now it was time for the Blankets to be shipped!

At this time Susan and Elise would like to express our deepest gratitude to all the Forty Plus Ladies, from the Charleston area that gave of their time and talent in the making of the Blankets, to LIFEMAX INC, and the Lifemax Foundation Founders Jim and Sherri Wear for believing in US and our Mission, and ultimately paying for the Blankets to be shipped to Japan, Jarnelle and Delta Airlines, Nicole Ashby from FEDEX – MT Pleasant Office and the combined support of Paul Cauldwell, Brian Bilbro, Karen and Bill Gadol, Shan and Darren Britt, and the staff of IN HIGH COTTON – Historic Downtown Summerville.

The Blankets shipped and were airborne a few hours before Hurricaine Irene came into the Carolina’s, and touched down five days later in Japan, Andrew Klaus from Samaritan’s Purse – Japan (our contact on the ground in Japan) advised: that the Blankets had been received, and that the local Japanese People had been asking for Blankets, as the weather had started turning cold, this being the first cold season after the TSUNAMI, and supplies, especially Blankets, were understandably in short supply, and the shipment that had arrived from the United States were being received with grateful thanks!!!

This has been one of those GOD stories that just dosen’t stop. We all look forward to hearing the stories of the lives that are touched half way around the world, and quite a few lives that have been changed here in our own little Town!

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