You can help Every Child MInistries show the love of Jesus to African orphans

Do you have a heart for African orphans?

"A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation."   Psalm 68:5

God has a special place in His Father-heart for orphans.  His Word tells us so.  When we read this verse, we get the feeling that reaching out to provide care for orphans is a part of God's very nature.  He has to do it because it's a part of Who He is.

It isn't any wonder, then, that we at Every Child Ministries feel that same compulsion.  We have to reach out to orphans!  It is a part of who we are.

Here's how ECM's Congo Orphan Project got started:

Pastor  Mayele Kilele, ECM Director in DR Congo, used to live in Kikwit, a provincial capital.  His heart went out to the multitude of orphans all around him.  True to the caring, hospitable nature of the Congolese, aged grandmothers, aunts and uncles and other shirt-tale relations were taking the orphans in.  The problem was that they had hardly anything to eat themselves!  There was no hope of the orphaned children ever getting an education or vocational training.  Yet the relatives were struggling to do all they could to keep the children alive and to give them a sheltered place to sleep.  Maybe their place was on a dirt floor, but it was inside, with loved ones gathered around.  Maybe their tummies were grumbling.  Many families in DR Congo had already had to go to a rotation basis for eating, each member getting one meal every second or third day.  Yet they still reached out to orphans!

Pastor Mayele himself had four daughters to feed and school, and a salary of $100 per month.  He felt fortunate to have a job, but his position required careful planning and frugal spending.  Yet seeing the condition of the orphans of his town, he felt compelled to help them.  From his own resources he began buying bread and sacks of powdered milk.  Soon he was feeding about 30 orphans regularly.  He saw that many of the grandmas were as hungry as the children and he began to feed them, too.  They were all so grateful.  When he offered the teaching of the Word of God, Jesus the Bread of Life, they could not have been more interested.  Many of them became disciples of Jesus, serving Him with joy even in their poverty.

When Pastor Mayele was recently promoted to ECM Congo Director he had to move to Kinshasa, the national capital.  No longer able to care for the Kikwit orphans, he asked if ECM could consider helping them.  Yes!  Of course, yes!  We have already found sponsors for many of them.  Maybe God would lead YOU to help one or more.

Project Sponsors Needed

A few discerning people understand the value of supporting a project, in comparison with supporting a child (that's good, too, of course.  Click here to see some of those opportunities.)  When there are sufficient project sponsors, we can quickly help other orphans when we find them in desperate conditions.  We can meet extra needs that may not be fully covered by individual sponsorships.  Maybe YOU would consider become an ORPHAN PROJECT SPONSOR.  ECM now has orphan projects in DR Congo and in Uganda.  Your gift of any amount given on a regular basis makes you a sponsor and entitles you to all the latest updates!  Of course, special gifts are also welcome.  Just click on the donate button and designate your gift "Orphans."  THANK YOU from the children you will be helping!

"Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble..."  James 1:27

Sponsor a child now.  (Designate orphan project)

More information about child sponsorship

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To see Ugandan orphans click here.

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