GOOD LIFE CLUB
SERVING EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS
“For the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy, but I have come that you might have life and have it abundantly.”
— John 10:10
The Good Life Club program is the component of FBR that focuses on children’s needs in the conflict zones of Burma. The Good Life Club team is comprised of men and women of different ethnicities and faiths with a desire to help children, and they provide assistance to all people regardless of race, ethnicity or religion. They believe that good life is not just physical but emotional and spiritual as well, and is something God desires for all people everywhere. They try to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the different communities they visit.
This program began in 1999 when Karen Eubank, wife of founder Dave Eubank, was on a relief mission with FBR teams to villages frequently attacked by the Burma Army. The children here were very shy and fearful and she envisioned a program that would give spiritual encouragement of faith, hope, and love through songs, games, crafts and stories; as modern medical care is infrequently available, the program also grew to include
preventative healthcare education.
Even though there are Buddhist and Animist team members in addition to Christians, all agree with the possibility of abundant life even in the midst of hardship, and individuals’ ability to help share this life. The aim of the program is to strengthen the spirit of the people, encouraging them to persevere in building new hope with the tools of love, truth, courage, freedom and reconciliation.
The GLC program is included in FBR Leadership and Relief Team trainings followed by a 1-2 month ‘School Tour’ to visit school children in rural IDP communities.
Each four-to-five-person FBR relief team has one member who is the designated Good Life Club counselor and whose duty is to focus on children at each site the team visits. The Good Life Club counselors are given training and supplies for a program addressing spiritual and physical health as well as providing relief supplies such as clothes or personal necessities when available. They encourage teachers and do education assessments in villages and IDP sites visited. The Good Life Club counselor is one person the children can look to whose main job is to address their special needs spiritually, emotionally and physically.. They are the one person on their respective FBR teams whose duty is to minister to the needs of the children the team meets as it goes on missions throughout the year.