Pure Religion | Where is Home?

In the Where is Home? chapter of Pure Religion, the book I released earlier this year, you will find some insights from our experiences over the last seventeen years regarding a family and home for orphan children.

Home is where our Father provides a family for an orphan child. This is a supernatural process for each child that creates outcomes that include the richness of faith, hope, and love.

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Meet Brigit Makena of Fortune Learners' Centre

Meet Brigit Makena, an 11-year old orphan girl who attends Fortune Learners’ Centre in Kayole –Nairobi. Makena lives with her mother who is currently running a small grocery but can’t raise enough to fully support all their needs.

He is now receiving aid via our Nutrition Initiative at Fortune Learners’ Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, and will be attending FLC on a GO! Scholarship in the coming year.

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Lueth-wek Orphans form Soccer Teams as part of Poverty & Illiteracy eradication under GO!/CMW

As part of continuous support of orphan children in South Sudan by Global Orphan Relief (GO!), in collaboration with Christ Mission to the World (CMW), to help empower the older orphans and those with less or no parental cares at all, the school formed both girls’ and boys’ soccer teams which have been tremendously excelling.

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Story of Winfred Mutete and Jacinta Mumbua

Winfred and Jacinta are like many children who live in rural Kenya that have limited access to education, basic necessities, and limited hope for the future.

Through Global Orphan Relief’s Education Initiative, we provide scholarships to orphan students that allow them to continue their education and provides them food at school.

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Orphans & Widows Pakistan | Widow Shanti & Family

Widow Shanti and her five children are the most recent addition to our Orphans & Widows project in Punjab, Pakistan.

As part of our Orphans & Widows partnership in Pakistan, these families are receiving the aid needed to stay together in one household. This effort prevents these children from being displaced into an orphanage or other environment that would separate them from their mother.

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Orphans & Widows Pakistan | November Support Report

We are meeting the needs of nine widow-led households in Punjab, Pakistan this month. There are many challenges for these families regarding food, housing, and education for the children.

As part of our Orphans & Widows partnership in Pakistan, these families are receiving the aid needed to stay together in one household. This effort prevents these children from being displaced into an orphanage or other environment that would separate them from their mother.

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One Big Bucket of Fish II

I wanted to pass along a second part of the story I posted on July 30th, from Mother Mary’s perspective. The following is what she shared with us from Nairobi earlier this year as she provides an update with the progress of her business.

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Orphans & Widows Pakistan | August Support Report

The needs in widow-led households continue with local challenges for food, housing, and education for the children.

As part of our Orphans & Widows partnership in Pakistan, these families are receiving the aid needed to stay together in one household with provision handled locally by our partner Bethel Church of Pakistan. This effort prevents these children from being displaced into an orphanage or other environment that would separate them from their mother.

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