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Orphan Care Organizations
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ABBA Fund
AbbaFund.org
888.775.3422 (toll free)
Countries:
N/A
- We provide interest-free loans to Christian couples who are deterred from fulfilling their calling to adopt because of financial obstacles.
- We also provide free administration of Adoption Funds (both interest-free loans and matching grants) to churches, adoption agencies, and businesses.
- Through LegacyChild (www.legacychild.org) we give families the opportunity to establish a memorial fund in memory of a loved one and choose a pre-approved family from our website to help adopt.
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All Kids Can Learn International-Villages of Hope
AKCLI.org
VillagesOfHope.org
1.800.785.1015 (toll free)
Countries:
Zambia
Villages of Hope provides a structure for an American church to support a cottage of 8 HIV/AIDS orphans through a collection of loose change in the church and building a relationship with those specific children. Also, Villages of Hope hosts short-term missions groups from many American churches. Villages of Hope offers a way to worship the Lord through missions to widows and orphans.
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Bring Me Hope
BringMeHope.org
760.723.5885
Countries:
China
Bring Me Hope runs summer camps for orphans in China. For each volunteer, we are able to bring 1 or 2 children out of the orphanage for a week of fun.
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Buckner International
Buckner.org
1.800.442.4800 (toll free)
214.758.8000
Countries:
Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Latvia, Mexico, Peru, Romania, Russia, United States
Buckner International is a starting point for churches looking to make a long-term impact in the lives of orphans around the world. Our experienced staff can connect your church with passionate, in-country ministry leaders to provide life-changing transformation for orphans. Opportunities include mission trips, humanitarian aid collection and delivery, and more.
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Campus Crusade for Christ
ExtendingTheKingdom.org
CampusCrusadeForChrist.org
303.260.9973
Countries:
Contact Brenda Niemeyer at brenda.niemeyer@uscm.org for specific country information.
We desire to see college students become true disciples of Christ, who will serve in their churches and communities as a lifestyle. We can serve the church by sending teams of students around the world, exposing them to needs and teaching them to share their faith in a variety of circumstances. Orphan care is a growing part of what our students take part in as they seek to proclaim the Good News of Christ.
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The CoMission for Children at Risk
CoMission.org
717.431.5977
Countries:
Russia, Ukraine (and other Eastern European countries)
The CoMission provides information on orphan ministry from more than 400 orphan care organizations working in Russia and Eastern Europe. Through a comprehensive website and e-newsletters, individuals and churches can easily access the following resources to help them serve orphans:
- Profiles on over 400 ministries serving at-risk children in the region
- Partnership opportunities
- Ministry materials in several languages
- A calendar of mission trips, training events, and conferences
- Reports and statistics
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Every Orphan’s Hope
EveryOrphan.org
214.705.9364
Countries:
Zambia
Every Orphan’s Hope works with the indigenous church to defend, comfort, encourage, care for and pray for orphans. The local church can get involved through orphan sponsorships which provide life-saving help through food, shelter, education and healthcare to a child left behind by HIV/AIDS. We build homes to provide orphans a Christian home with all the provisions needed to live. We offer short-term missions trips being on the front lines of God’s orphan rescue mission.
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Focus on the Family’s Orphan Care Initiative
ICareAboutOrphans.org
719.548.5827
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Current focus is on legal orphans in U.S. foster care system.
We are focused on raising awareness about the needs of legal orphans in the U.S. foster care system who are waiting for adoptive families. We also provide biblically-based adoption competent resources for adoptive families.
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4KIDS of South Florida, Inc.
4KidsOfSFL.org
954.979.7911 Broward
561.869.5770 Palm Beach
Countries:
United States
We offer placement of children 0-17 into licensed, private, loving foster homes and/or into our residential group homes for sibling groups and harder to place teens. We also offer pre/post natal care for both mother/child for young women in crisis pregnancy, including adoption services. We also have an independent living program for young adults who have “aged out” of the system with services that include mentoring, life skills training and job placement.
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Global Aid Network
GainUSA.org
1.800.778.7806 (toll free)
Countries:
Central Asia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Liberia, Russia, Uganda, Ukraine, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Global Aid Network (GAiN), the humanitarian arm of Campus Crusade for Christ, is a ministry of care and compassion with an outreach to orphans. The organization provides humanitarian aid such as food, cribs, blankets, clothing and medical items to orphanages and sends short-term mission teams to distribute aid and share the grace and hope of Jesus. A child scholarship program is also offered for students attending the New Horizon Nursery and Primary School in Uganda.
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Here I Am Orphan Ministries
OrphanMinistries.com
979.421.6471
Countries:
Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Panama
HIAOM offers:
Sharing the Vision – ministry representatives share what the Bible says about orphans, our Biblical responsibility in caring for them, and ways everyone can help
Lighting the Way Workshop - introduces domestic and international adoption processes
Project HOPE – financial assistance for adoptive families
Forever Families - adoption support group
Lambs Not Forgotten - addresses physical and spiritual needs of orphans through mission trips and medical care
Hope for a Future – host programs
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His Children, Inc.
HisChildrenInc.org
714.835.2447
Countries:
Albania, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Ukraine, United States
His Children Inc. assists churches in building orphan ministries. Our services are freely provided and include:
- ministry design consultation
- developing volunteer opportunities that allow every congregation member to serve orphans
- linking churches to Christian organizations that facilitate foster and adoption placements
- connecting church leaders to resources that could be of help in developing an orphan ministry
- conducting foster and adoption workshops
- hosting networking meetings and workshops for church leaders
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Kidmia
Kidmia.org
817.914.4758
Countries:
Ethiopia
Kidmia means "priority" in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia. Our priority is to facilitate lasting change in the lives of orphaned and vulnerable children in rural Ethiopia. To do this, Kidmia provides holistic care and shelter to children in need, while being the catalyst of their adoption into local gospel-loving families. We are driven by a passion for Jesus Christ and a desire to see the people of Ethiopia changed by His grace.
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Lifesong for Orphans
LifesongForOrphans.org
309.747.3556
Countries:
Honduras, India, Ukraine, Zambia
Lifesong invites churches to Adopt-an-Orphanage in Ukraine, Zambia, India or Honduras, creating in-country solutions through: Christian schools, indigenous mentors/disciplers, transition homes, and job-skill training. Lifesong facilitates church mission trips, travel arrangements, and letter-writing with orphans.
Lifesong provides innovative funding tools through Adoption Matching Grants & Interest-Free Loans. Lifesong serves churches by launching, facilitating, and administering church-based Adoption Funds (at no cost to churches), allowing churches to be active in orphan ministry with little/no administrative burden.
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Livada Orphan Care
Livada.org
Countries: Romania
Livada is the Romanian word for orchard and serves as a symbol to remind us to use the platform of orphan care to bear fruit that will last. We do this through weekly evangelistic efforts with orphans in state care, orphans in our private full time care, and with at-risk Gypsy children and their families in villages deep in the heart of Transylvania.
Together we can engage the Romanian church and evangelize Romanian kids and local volunteers through the following avenues:
- Mission Trips- evangelistic summer camps, spring break VBS, baby hospital cradle care, construction projects, medical/dental teams, Christian leadership training conferences
- Internships and STINT missionary opportunities -for college students and young adults
- Child Sponsorships and Praying Pen Pals - intercessory prayer for specific orphans
- Humanitarian Aid drives, Change4Change coin drives, JCPenney online clothes drives
- Church to Church partnerships
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LOVEM Care Ministries, Inc.
LovemCare.org
912.228.5342
Countries:
Central Asia (call for specific country for security reasons), North Africa (call for specific country for security reasons), Honduras, Nicaragua
LOVEM Care Ministries, Inc. can help lead your church through starting a new orphan work in most any country you desire. Our ministry is primarily to help plant orphan ministries in U.S. churches, partnering with or starting churches in the mission country to carry out this mission.
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Loving Shepherd Ministries
Loving-Shepherd.org
260.824.9000
Countries:
Ethiopia, Haiti, Hungary, India, Romania, Ukraine, United States
- LSM builds and operates Christ-centered group homes for orphans globally. These group homes minister holistically and long-term. Sponsoring an LSM group home makes an excellent church project.
- For couples in your congregation considering adoption, LSM provides free, objective, comprehensive, and personalized information. Any couple considering adoption should call LSM first.
- LSM facilitates corrective surgeries for vulnerable children globally.
- LSM provides resources to local churches developing orphan care ministries. Visit www.facesoftheforgotten.org.
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Make Way Partners
MakeWayPartners.org
205.240.8597
Countries:
Sudan, Transnestria, Moldova, and Romania
Make Way Partners is committed to prevent and combat human trafficking and all forms of modern–day slavery by educating and mobilizing The Body of Christ. To those who are oppressed and at high risk of trafficking, we offer indigenous ministries of counseling, discipleship, education, employment, food, medical, shelter, and transportation which offer hope and practical assistance.
We can partner with your church to answer the Biblical call to seek justice on behalf of the oppressed through prayerful intercession, financial support, and ministry and mission service.
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Orphan Outreach
OrphanOutreach.org
MissionBackpack.org
972.726.620
1.877.ORPHAN9 (877.677.4269) (toll free)
Countries:
Guatemala, Honduras, India, Russia (with developing programs in several other countries)
Orphan Outreach serves orphans and children at risk of being orphaned by providing a quality Christian education that prepares them for fulfilling independent lives in their communities. Our school model focuses on spiritual development, early intervention, and quality education.
Orphan Outreach connects churches and individuals with ministry opportunities to orphans around the world.
Orphan Outreach’s Mission Backpack collection drives provide orphans and children in desperate need with new backpacks and the message that they do not walk alone.
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Rancho de los Ninos
RanchoDeLosNinos.com
503.491.2818 (stateside)
669.917.0606 (in Mexico)
Countries:
Mexico
At Rancho de los Ninos we provide a home in El Castillo, Mexico for orphans, children with disabilities, and other children in need. Churches are welcome to contact us for information on short-term missions trips.
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Show Hope
ShowHope.org
615.550.5600
Countries:
China
Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife, and Mary Beth, founded Shaohannah’s Hope to mobilize the body of Christ to care for orphans and to help more children experience the miracle of adoption, primarily through supporting Christian families in the adoption process with financial grants. This ministry also equips and empowers God’s people to act on behalf of the orphan through strategic resources, church adoption fund materials, advocacy efforts, and orphan care projects around the world.
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VisionTrust International
VisionTrust.org
719.268.2943
Countries:
Brazil, Central African Republic, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, India, Liberia, Myanmar, Peru, Thailand
VisionTrust develops long-term relationships between your church and fatherless children through an integrated mission strategy that is relevant to singles, families, young people and children in your church. The program incorporates child sponsorship, mission teams and special projects. The VisionTrust children participate in discipleship, educational and health programs. VisionTrust will facilitate a “Get Involved Sunday” and short-term mission trips that will enable your members to have hands-on experience serving these precious children.
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World Orphans
WorldOrphans.org
1.800.ORPHANS toll free
719.487.1700
Countries:
Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, Europe/Russia, India, Latin America, Middle East, Southeast Asia
World Orphans is committed to rescuing millions of orphaned and abandoned children, strengthening thousands of indigenous churches, and impacting hundreds of communities with the Gospel of Jesus Christ…through the cost –effective empowerment of church-based orphan prevention, rescue, care and transition programs in the least reached areas of the world.
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