We recently enrolled 40 new students into one of the local schools in Zambia, and now support 321 orphaned children via our Scholarship Initiative in Zambia. To include DR Congo and Kenya, there are now 574 orphaned children continuing in their education thanks to you. These are children that would lack the resources needed to attend school without your assistance. Well done!
Read MoreThey have been working through several problems. The biggest is the rain. The rains came late but have overflowed the rivers and streams like Mike has never seen in the past. He’s been trying to get to the Valley to visit the House of Hope but had to keep delaying. He’s going to try again tomorrow.
Read MoreThe Great Commandment Workshop concept has always meant to be indigenous, self-propagating, & self-supporting within the local community. We are to be working with our GO! Kenya Team, Pastors Isaiah & Benson, as we hold our first one-day workshop in Nairobi on February 26th. Not only are these excited about mobilizing the local church to serve orphans, but they are well connected within their respective communities that will insure a quick start for this new initiative.
Read MoreFaith Anastasia, our fourth child, was born into the world on May 4, 2005. As prepared as we thought we were after experiencing the healthy births of our first three, our experience with Faith was powerful and life-altering—though our time with her was inexplicably short. Ten fingers, ten toes, a head of fuzzy peach hair—our little miracle was perfect in every way, an angel on earth for the fifteen days we shared with her…
Read MoreWe are joining hands with local leaders around the world to deploy the Church to serve orphan children. While this is bold vision the task is at hand with our first one-day workshop scheduled for February 26th in Nairobi. We are already at 100 local leaders registered with four weeks to go before the event. Join us for the adventure of a lifetime and see God move in a powerful way!
Read MoreIn 2021 we experienced many milestones; we served a record number of children, we raised a record level of funding, and we initiated many new ministry relationships in preparation to serve an even larger number of children in the future.
Read MoreWe are returning to Kenya to follow-up on our August deployment and look forward to co-hosting our first Great Commandment Workshop event, along with a myriad of other activities scheduled during our time in the field.
We look forward to serving additional children in need in Kenya in the months and years ahead.
Read MoreMany were blessed in December as our partner Bethel Church of Pakistan held multiple Christmas celebrations and also distributed the normal monthly support during these meetings.
As part of our Orphans & Widows partnership in Pakistan this good work continues, and we are looking forward to growing this effort in coming years one family at a time.
Read MoreOn Wednesday last week heavily armed Misseriya Arab militia men from North Sudan attacked Yieth Pabol, Malou and Machar Villages in Aweil East, killing 30 civilians and children. The attackers wounded many others, and several houses were set ablaze. As many as 150 families were displaced due to this violence.
Read MoreNelly Malambo is fifteen years old and lives at the House of Hope Orphanage (HOHO) in Sinazongwe, Zambia. Nelly and her brother Charles came from Chipepo to receive care in 2013.
Read MoreI consider myself a life-long learner, and lessons that I learn build upon previous education and or experience. So many things would not have been available to me if I did not know how to read, write, or do simple math. Without an education my life would have been something far less.
Read MoreJames was born into an extremely poor family that could not provide daily meals. He is from the village of Adoor and lives with his four siblings, and there wasn't enough food to go around. James was blessed to attend Adoor Primary School where he was admitted to our Nutrition Initiative based on his dire circumstances. Today, there are thousands of children just like James, but they are hungry and have no access to nutrition in their communities.
Read MoreThere are four important processes that we go through this time of year (4th Quarter) that are important for this movement and is all about how to improve the way we serve orphan children and how we might serve more into the future.
Read MoreI couldn’t help but write down an experience that I had at church this weekend, in hopes that some of you may be blessed by it. We were at the Assumption Cathedral in Denver on Sunday and the service was beautiful and solemn. The sights and sounds took me to a different time and place. It was good.
After church, I hurried over to ‘coffee hour.’ I recognized one of the ladies of the church; she is a friend of the family, and a very nice person. As I went to say hello, I stopped myself.
Read MoreDespite being nutritionally catered for, free education, Biblical teaching (coaching) and counselling have been recently incorporated by the school management with the help of Partnering Church-base organization, the Christ Mission to the World (CMW). We have served alongside Christ Mission to the World to serve in Beliek, South Sudan, since 2016.
Read MoreChildren at Beliek Village Primary School form Choir to sing their praise to their King! We have worked at this Beliek school to provide meals to hungry children since 2016.
Read MoreThe Bethel Church of Pakistan continues to serve the poor in their midst as reported for the month of November. Care for the Widows and Orphans through our partnership is growing as we serve twelve Widow-led households this month.
As part of our Widows & Orphans partnership in Pakistan this good work continues, and we are looking forward to growing this effort in coming years one family at a time.
Read MoreFollowing the recent flood outbreak in most parts of South Sudan, several health issues had been reported to have emerged everywhere in South Sudan and especially at schools. With prominence on areas where Global Orphan Relief and Christ Mission to the World are rendering humanitarian assistance in South Sudan, there were huge cases being registered daily as the waterborne diseases hit these schools.
Read MoreI was honored to visit South Sudan in 2019 and had the opportunity to visit two of the three schools that we support today within our Nutrition Initiative. Things have improved since this time with the additions of kitchens, storerooms, and latrines, but there is much yet to be done.
For most students at these schools -they attend class under the big trees. Check out the enclosed to get an up-close look at a class at the Luethwek Village School as they prepare for upcoming exams.
Read MoreBeneficiaries from South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State -at Adoor Village School have overwhelmingly applauded the great impact to their lives following over five-year support from Global Orphan Relief (GO!). We have served in South Sudan since 2016, and have provided an estimated 455,840 meals impacting 3,162 vulnerable children in South Sudan in 2021. The scale of this initiative has grown by over 4 times since our launch in 2016, and this growth is driven by the near-famine conditions and other socio-economic challenges in this country.
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