Posts Tagged orphan
Mar 25 Pray4projects in South Africa, Haiti @WorldOrphans
Posted by Keith Moore in Uncategorized on March 25, 2010
- Please remember to pray for the Ebenezer Bible
Church in Temba,
South Africa where Pastor Phillip and the church family is raising 20
former Orphans, and looking to expand their impact on their community
through sustainable projects. - Pray for the strategy to connect churches in the US with churches in Haiti to provide care for the orphans. To learn more go to,
www.Haitiorphanrelief.org - Pray for the team deploying to South Africa on April 8th, led by Mike Krick.
Mar 23 Pray4projects @WorldOrphans
Posted by Keith Moore in Orphan Care, Prayer, The child and the church, The church on March 23, 2010
Praise!- Four of the projects that were without western church partners at the beginning of the year are now in partnerships.
Fountain of Life – Juja is now partnered with Hill Country Bible Church – Northpoint in Austin TX
Fountain of Hope – Nairobi is now partnered with River Oaks Church in Knoxville
Lunkon Thmei – Cambodia is now partnered with Rutherford Bible Chapel in Rutherford N.J.
Jesus Savior Church – Moldova is now partnered with Restoration Church in Arlington VA.
This is a great answer to prayer!
- Christian Life Centre Chatsworth, South Africa
- Ebenezer Bible Church Temba, South Africa
- Nayla Presb. Evang. Church Darfur, Sudan
- United Community Methodist Church Jinja, Uganda
- Bethel Gospel Chruch Hyderabad, India
- F. S. Training Center China
- A total of 138 former orphans being cared for by these churches.
- Pray for the Haiti Orphan Relief Team as they roll out
the strategy to connect the
first 10 churches in the US with 10 churches in Haiti to provide care for
the orphans. To learn more go to, www.Haitiorphanrelief.org - Pray for the team deploying to South Africa on April
8th, led by Mike Krick.
Mar 11 Pray4projects in Darfur, Haiti @WorldOrphans
Posted by Keith Moore in Uncategorized on March 11, 2010
- Pray for the Nyala Presbyterian
Evangelical Church in Darfur, Sudan where the church is caring for 20
former orphans. -
Pray for the Haiti Orphan Relief Team as they roll out
the strategy to connect the first 10 churches in the US with 10 churches in Haiti to
provide care for the orphans. To learn more go to,
www.Haitiorphanrelief.org - Pray for the team deploying to South Africa on April
8th, led by Mike Krick.
Mar 7 Pray4projects in South Africa, Haiti @WorldOrphans
Posted by Keith Moore in Uncategorized on March 7, 2010
- Please remember to pray for the Ebenezer Bible
Church in Temba,
South Africa where Pastor Phillip and the church family is raising 20
former Orphans, and looking to expand their impact on their community
through sustainable projects. - Pray for the
Haiti Orphan Relief Team as they complete the strategy to connect churches in the US with churches in Haiti to provide care for the orphans. To learn more go to,
www.Haitiorphanrelief.org - Pray for the team deploying to South Africa on April 8th, led by Mike Krick.
Feb 26 Pray4projects in South Africa, Haiti & Nicaragua @WorldOrphans
Posted by Keith Moore in Orphan Care, Prayer on February 26, 2010
- Please pray for the Christian Life
Centre in Chatsworth, South Africa. Pastor Siva has remarkable church caring for 18
former orphans plus hundreds of other orphans in their community based
programs. A team from the Midwest lead by Mike Krick will be traveling to South Africa in
April. - Pray for the Haiti Orphan Relief Team as they start to wrap-up their contacts with churches today and head home tomorrow.
- The Nicaragua team has returned from a fruitful trip. Please pray for the US churches as they begin to strategize how to partner with the Verbo Churches to rescue and care for orphans in some of the poorest and least reached areas of Nicaragua.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah unknowingly supports the World Orphans model of orphan care.
Posted by Keith Moore in Books, Issues, Orphan Care, The child and the church on February 25, 2010
This is a lecture by a former child soldier who has the wonderful ability of story telling. During his account of the events he chronicled in his book, he tells the stories of his life before, during and after the war. His story is remarkable, and the time it takes to hear the entire lecture is well worth it. He makes several points about the orphan cycle of child soldiers.
Ishmael credits his recovery to the passion of people that wanted him to recover. Ishmael placed great importance on two things: The fact that the people who worked at the recovery center were from Sierra Leon, and the sports they used to help them make break throughs in their recovery. He said:
“Thank God that the people who worked at the center were Sierra Leonians, who were deeply interested in helping us. It makes a tremendous difference when people who are from your country, help you to recover. Somebody who is from the outside can easily forgive you, who have not been there during the war. But when somebody, perhaps some of the peoples whose family you had actually you had destroyed, will want to come to take care of you, it makes a tremendous difference.
Another way they did this was sports, football, soccer.”
Without knowing it, Ishmael gave a great testimony for two parts of our strategy. The importance that the work is carried out by the indigenous church. Not only it is important for the community to identify the work being done by the church, but it matters to the children as well. The second part being, our strategy to use sports in the process of growth and healing.
I hope that someday the result of the work of World Orphans means that there are thousands of kids like Ishmael, who are able to tell how the members of their church helped them recover from the cycle that caused them to be an orphan. And that their story does not end there, but it goes on to tell how they also lead them to eternal life.
Listen to his story then leave a comment about what impressed you.
Feb 22 Pray4projects in Darfur, Haiti & Nicaragua @WorldOrphans
Posted by Keith Moore in Uncategorized on February 22, 2010
- Pray for the Nyala Presbyterian
Evangelical Church in Darfur, Sudan where the church is caring for 20 former orphans. - Pray for the Haiti Orphan Relief Team as they worship today and continue
to contact churches. To learn
more go to, www.Haitiorphanrelief.org. - Pray for the Church-to-Church team in Nicaragua.
Feb 21 Pray4projects in China, Haiti & Nicaragua @WorldOrphans
Posted by Keith Moore in Uncategorized on February 21, 2010
- Pray for the F.S. Training Center in China where Pastor "A" and the church family is
raising 50 former Orphans. Ask the Lord for His provision expand their impact on their
community through expanding the center to care for 50 more orphans. - Pray for the Haiti Orphan Relief Team as they worship today and continue
to contact churches. To learn
more go to, www.Haitiorphanrelief.org. - Pray for the Church-to-Church team in Nicaragua.
A Cord of Three for Haiti
Posted by Keith Moore in Current Affairs, Orphan Care, Prayer, The church on January 31, 2010
A strategy has been compiled to coordinate the response of churches to the crisis in Haiti that will bring focus to what needs to be accomplished for the church and the orphan at the same time. The Haiti Orphan Relief Team is a multi-disciplined team that will begin to map out churches in Haiti that have the heart to rescue and care for orphans, and will include some members of our staff. We are all aware of the setting they will be going into and the need to have a prayer team backing them up every step of the way.
The decentralized World Orphans model does not afford the staff with the luxury of being in close proximity to one another, we can't all gather together in one place at one time. Yet, being spread across the country does afford us the luxury of being in several time zones, having influence in multiple regions and churches. We need to begin today to use the disbursement of our staff to the advantage it affords us, in corporate prayer, as preparations are being finalized and while the team is on the ground.
I do not mean to imply that you are not praying for the crisis in Haiti, I am saying that we need to ramp it up. I'm not saying that the needs of the team are over and above the needs of those already on the ground and in the midst of the suffering chaos, the need is different but the same in importance. I'm not saying this is more important than the upcoming teams going to Nicaragua and South Africa, the difference is that the HORT Team will not have the focus of a sending church to form the chorus of prayer that will be needed like the other trips will have. Our ministry, You and I will be the sending body that needs to be standing in the gap for those going and their families. You and I need to include this strategy in every aspect of our daily conversations with God. It needs to be on the minds in in the prayers of everyone you and I have contact with.
The situation they are going into is tough. Yet, the bible reminds us about the need for a team. "And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken." Ecclesiastes 4:12 (ESV) We need to build a strong team. Building off the theme of three, the Lord, the Team, and you and I, this team can stand tougher than the circumstances they will face.
Taking the theme of three further, I am asking each of you to join me in adding an additional layer of prayer to what has already been discussed above. I am asking you to pray at :03 past the hour every waking hour during your day for this strategy and the team. You may need to set your watch, your phone or a clock as a reminder, but take a moment at :03 past the hour to pray. Praise the Lord for what He is doing, lift up the team at that moment, and pray for the rest of our ministry. Encourage others in your life to do the same.
This is not meant to be a ritual, but a reminder that "in all these things we are all more than conquerors [only] through Him who loved us."
If you want your church to get involved in caring for the hundreds of thousands of new orphans in Haiti go to the Haiti Orphan Relief Team page.
You can keep up to date with the teams progress by following them on Face Book and invite your friends to join the fan page as well.
Words From Haiti.
Posted by Keith Moore in Current Affairs, Issues, Orphan Care, The child and the church, The church on January 14, 2010
'Disaster and chaos' in Haiti after major earthquake 1/12/2010
These are the words taken from an Associated Press headline after the earthquake struck Haiti. The article went on to quote people that were on the ground and their descriptions of the events there. Unless you have been away from the media over the past few days you have seen your share of the words in headlines, and are probably close to being overwhelmed by the news. Words like disaster and chaos are catchy, I’ve even used them here. Words like providence or provision don’t seem to go with disaster and chaos. Yet, they can be found in Haiti.
If there is one thing that I am learning in my new role at World Orphans, it is that there are no coincidences in God’s plan. In his blog, Paul Myhill gives an account of a group arriving in Haiti just moments before the earthquake with supplies and provisions to help a church-base home for orphans there. I’m limited to the information that Paul has given us, and I doubt that this story will ever end up in an article by the Associated Press. But I think it is a great example of God’s providence. A group of people made plans to go and help, well in advance of the earthquake. They gathered provisions and went. Then in God’s timing, they were on the ground just as this event was unfolding. That is more than just a matter of timing.
Still, some will say this is just a coincidence. I am convinced it is more than that, it is the providence of God at work in the midst of what the world calls chaos. From this tidbit of a bigger story we can see how the church really is the best instrument for long term response and change. This church-based home is not a current World Orphans partner but it is at the center of this story. The help this group will be able to give the people of Haiti is in part possible because the church is there, and the church is responding to the community by caring for orphaned and abandoned children.
In the coming days I hope we get to hear more about the story of Jodi’s friends and the response they were able to help the church make in Haiti. I’m sure the story will be ripe with words that describe God’s grace and mercy, His providence and provision more than disaster and chaos.
Would you like to help the children of Haiti, by helping the churches that are already there to rescue them? You can contribute to the World Orphans relief efforts online at our giving page. Simply make a”miscellaneous” gift and type “Haiti” in the memo box. Or you can send a check to:
World Orphans
P.O. Box 1840
Castle Rock, CO 80104
Thank you in advance for being part of what God is doing through the church and for the orphan.
Keith
