UMC Churches celebrated with their official launch of their Care Centres in the area surrounding Meru, Kenya.

Their leadership hosted a Great Commandment Workshop in June 2022, and now have launched twenty-six (26) Care Centres in Kenya to care for the impoverished with an emphasis on orphan children.

Based on our Church Mobilization Initiative, via our Great Commandment Workshops (GCW) events, we continue to witness the Church in Kenya moving out in their communities to serve orphan children. 5,093 children were served in November by 443 GO! Ambassadors that were commissioned at 9 GCW events in 2022.

My name is Anitah Twili Zipporah. I am a daughter to the late Ms. Zipporah Nzilani, and I was born on 12 December 2007. Since the death of my mother, I have been living with my grandmother who has been taking care of me…

We are supporting 322 orphan children through our Education Initiative with plans to increase this to 586 student recipients in Kenya & Zambia in 2023.

Dennis Kithuka and his younger brother Benson Muthini are both orphans and sons to the late Ms Ndele Kithuka who passed from illness while they were at a tender age.

We are supporting 322 orphan children through our Education Initiative with plans to increase this to 586 student recipients in Kenya & Zambia in 2023.

Naomi is age twelve and she is in grade five. Life has not been easy for her living without parents with the limited food that her grandmother can provide.

Today, we are supporting 322 orphan children through our Education Initiative with plans to increase this to 586 student recipients in Kenya & Zambia in 2023.

As Global Orphans Relief (GO!) in collaboration with Arising Christian Ministries (ACM) provides nutritional support for 48 orphan children that attend the JOY Education Centre in Lucky Summer Estate which is located in Nairobi.

Global Orphan Relief (GO!) in collaboration with field partners in Ethiopia, Kenya, & South Sudan provide nutritional support at some level to 1,725 orphan children. This nutritional support usually involves local schools as the distribution point.

UMC Churches receive clarion call of the Great Commandment Workshop that was held in Meru County in June, and now have twenty-six (26) care centers in Kenya, and the are in the process of opening more as God continues to lead them.

Based on our Church Mobilization Initiative, via our Great Commandment Workshops (GCW) events, we continue to witness the local church moving out in their communities to serve orphan children.

Matthew Kuach, aged 16, primary eight from Beliek Village School in South Sudan becomes another successful beneficiary of Global Orphans Relief (GO!)’ Nutrition Initiative support in South Sudan.

Global Orphan Relief has been feeding children at the Beliek Village School since 2016 and we have provided an est. 1.7 million meals to children in South Sudan.

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We finalized our budget earlier this month, and then based on news received just this week, we have exceeded (again) the number of children we expected to serve for November. Check out what we have accomplished so far this year and what is planned for 2023!

It all starts with our Celebration of Generosity happening over the next 11 days!

We visited the House of Faith Orphanage last month, and I wanted to share this experience with you the best I can.

The House of Faith Orphanage is a blessing to so many and is Holy ground.

Kelvil Minyoso Egadwa, 48-year-old mother and grandmother. She is a born-again Christian and a minister of the word of God at Kwangware PAG Church. She has been a church leader for more than five years, specifically serving as the head of women's ministry at the church.

She shares her experience of attending a Great Commandment Workshops (GCW) event, and the results of what she received there.

Joseph Agany, aged 17, is an eighth-grade pupil who has benefited from GO!’s sponsored programme of school meals. He says he is grateful to have reached his academic dreams (of completing grade eight) of his primary education.  Agany is an orphan that has had his life changed through the nutritional support at school.

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.

In Matthew, Mark, and Luke’s telling of the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000, Jesus simply states

“You feed them.”

Schovia was found her abandoned at a dumpsite at a place called, Deliverance in Kawangware. She was just a few days old.

Based on our Church Mobilization Initiative, via our Great Commandment Workshops (GCW) events, we are witnessing the local church moving out in their communities to serve orphan children.

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.

We spent October 31st in Kitwe co-hosting a Great Commandment Workshop event with Kitwe Central Church.

It was wonderful to see the Church gather together to embrace what the scriptures tell us regarding serving the poor -specifically the orphan child.

To date we have enlisted 655 GO! Ambassadors to serve orphan children their communities.

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.

Meet James Otieno, 6 years old, who came to the Fortune Learners’ Centre in 2020 with his two cousins -Dylan age 14 and Neola age 7. James was born when his mum was single, so he grew under the care of one parent until she passed due to illness

He is now receiving aid via our Nutrition Initiative at Fortune Learners’ Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.

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.

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.