Robby and Joyce

GROW Project Executive Directors 

Robby and Joyce lead the Philemon Project in Lebanon, which recently celebrated their 10th anniversary of the first GROW center. GROW is a Christian preschool that serves the most at-risk children in Beirut. They fight food insecurity by providing two meals and two snacks a day, gender discrimination by empowering their all-female staff, and child labor and trafficking by educating and caring for these at-risk children. It is most often the only place these families encounter the gospel and the love of God. They hope to open GROW2 in early summer 2024 in another area of Beirut and are close to that goal. The building will also host a church plant they are involved with on the top floor. Their success has led them to dream of a third center sometime in the future to multiply the gospel impact of the center on the families of Beirut. 

Prayer Requests: 

• Pray for peace in the Middle East and that war does not spread to Lebanon. 
• Pray that God would provide the remainder of the funding in order to open GROW2 this summer and then GROW3 in the future. 
• Pray for the safe arrival of their first grandchild this year.