giving orphans hope
giving orphans hope
2009/2010 ANNUAL REPORT
OUR PURPOSE:
to give orphans
hope future. and a
Our Mission That every orphan will know that Jesus loves them and cares for their needs. God’s Kids strives to demonstrate Christ’s love for orphans by raising the standard of care and accountability for orphanages around the world. We work to: • Provide quality nutrition, clean places to live, and adequate medical care for orphans • Equip orphans with a Christian education and life skills • Raise a generation of orphans prepared to be significant contributors to their society
Our Passion Awareness. We monitor the education of all our orphans to ensure they are truly getting a meaningful education to prepare them for the future within their culture. Accountability. We require appropriate traditional performance indicators such as grades but we probe deeper into the actual degree of learning represented by those grades. We personally ask the children questions they should know the answer to at their grade level. If we find a wide discrepancy between what their grades say they know and what they actually know, we take proactive steps to resolve the discrepancy. This was the case in Liberia when, upon questioning a graduating 12th grader, it was discovered his reading and basic math skills were far below grade level. Upon testing over 100 of the orphans and finding this was the rule, not the exception, we hired an American teacher to move to Liberia. Her three year mission is to train up master teachers who will not only educate our orphans at a higher level but will allow for community children attending these same schools to likewise improve their actual knowledge base. In all that we do, God’s Kids strives for excellence in obedience to God’s Word.
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Our Ministry in
India A ministry partner, India’s Kids supports two orphanages in Northern India. They are both located in Ukhrul District, (Kalapahar) Manipur, India. India’s Kids provides the funding and makes regular personal visits. God’s Kids provides the administrative support and has participated in funding construction projects.
Jacob’s Well Children’s Home:
Mercy Children’s Home:
Director: Careson Sara
Director: Rev. Deepak Bardewa
Number of children: 42
Number of children: 30
COMPLETED JACOB’S WELL PROJECTS:
COMPLETED MERCY HOME PROJECTS:
• • • • • •
• • • • • • • • • •
Ceiling installation Yeoman School building Clean water piping, pump and basin Solar electricity upgrade Mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets Warm clothing for each child
Constructed kitchen drainage Renovated water storage tank Replaced bathroom buckets, cups, kitchenware Installed bamboo fence around property Bought school backpacks Obtained additional water supply Bought new mosquito nets Obtained bibles for all kids Conducted memory verse competition Conducted IQ testing
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Our Ministry in
Liberia In Liberia, West Africa, God’s Kids supports fourteen orphanages that are home to about 900 children. A Liberian pastor, John Kpewoan is our national director in Liberia. He personally runs an orphanage, The Lord’s Prayer, and he supervises thirteen others on our behalf. Each orphanage has its own home director and staff but John oversees them for us, manages all funds, visits often and advises our International office of all needs for the fourteen homes. John is our point of contact for all reports and photographs as well. In July 2009, during a routine visit to Liberia we discovered a challenge with our two year old education program. This was confirmed in October 2009 when a retired college professor and one of our staff performed a series of assessments in basic reading and math skills. The results showed a discrepancy between the grades we had been getting and actual skills learned. With the permission of the Liberian government, an American teacher has moved to Liberia. Her three year mission is to train up master teachers who will not only educate our orphans at a higher level but will allow for community children attending these same schools to likewise improve their actual knowledge base.
Liberian Orphanages:
Completed Projects:
Amazing Grace Anna Enoch Calvary Mission Children Relief Children Rescue Ctr Christian O and A Fairfield Baptist
• • • • •
Hebron Home The Lord’s Prayer Monrovia Training Academy Mother Victoria Thomas New Hope Orphanage Phebe Grey Sis Iye
Hired/placed American teacher Installed swings at all locations Installed see saws at all locations Facility repairs as needed Fun and game items (soccer, etc.)
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Our Ministry in
Mexico God’s Kids supports an orphanage in Tijuana with several ministry partners. God’s Kids provides both financial and administrative support. We also support six feeding centers and an orphanage for disabled children in Mazatlan, Mexico. Everyone thinks of Mazatlan as a tourist area, and it is, but just a few miles inland from the ocean one sees a very different Mazatlan.
Casa Hogar Belen:
Amistad Familiar Mazatlan:
Director: Antonia Barajas Pena
Director: Pastor Carlos Marinelarena
Number of children: 186
Five feeding centers feeding about 300 children daily and one orphanage for disabled kids.
COMPLETED PROJECTS:
Our presence in Mazatlan is different from our normal ministry. Founded in 2003, the feeding centers provide meals up to twice daily, a safe place to do homework and to play and of course Bible studies and worship. The kids then go home to their single moms who know their kids were safe and well cared for during the day.
Laundry room constructed through the support of a family business.
We have also participated in construction projects such as room additions and restrooms.
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Our Ministry in the
Philippines 2010 marks five years that Village of Hope has been ministering in Bohol, Philippines. Directors Mike and Jeanette Propp went there to establish a Bible college and found that God was leading them to also minister to orphans in the area. They constructed the facility from the ground up. The Village campus presently has four operational homes. Each home has 10 kids and a set of house parents. The concept gives the children an environment that more closely resembles living with a large family as opposed to the traditional format of a barracks style facility. God’s Kids has been blessed to partner financially and administratively with the Village of Hope. Directors: Mike and Jeanette Propp Number of children: 40 (10 per each of four homes)
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Our Ministry in
Thailand Our presence in Thailand is along the Thai and Myanmar (Burma) border. Most of the children are from a people group called the Karen (pronounced Ka-Rehn). The Karen are frequently the victims of violence in their homeland and many of these children lost their parents as a result.
Huay Mah Lai (pronounced Why-Ma-Lie) Children’s Home: Directors: Paw Lu Lu and Nan Doe Number of children: 28 Paw Lu Lu and her husband Nan Doe are of the Karen people who had to flee their native Burma. They have a special love for their fellow Karen refugees which led them to found a Safe House for the mentally ill, sick, disabled and those with terminal illnesses. The orphanage was founded later to take care of the children of these Safe House adults who could not care for them. Later the orphanage took on children who had lost one or both parents to killings in Burma. These refugee children frequently face the possibility of repatriation, which puts them at high risk. Captured boys are often used as human mine sweepers and girls face other atrocities at the hands of their captors, being sold into the sex slave trade. COMPLETED PROJECTS: A smooth and successful hand off from an American missionary to an Australian who helps us oversee operations and keeps us up to date on the local environment. The outgoing missionary is Christopher Mills, who ministered in Thailand for several years. His primary mission was in support of the mission of his California church but he graciously helped God’s Kids. We are very grateful to Chris for his faithfulness and willingness to go the extra mile (literally many miles) for God’s Kids.
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Every 14 seconds another child becomes an orphan. There are more orphans in the world – 143 million – than the entire populations of Canada and Mexico combined, and that number is predicted to continue to rise for at least another decade! Extreme poverty, conflict, and disease – especially AIDS – are the largest contributing factors in the growing world orphan crisis. AIDS has hit sub-Saharan Africa the hardest, devastating children, families, and the entire continent. According to UNAIDS/WHO 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update (http://www.unaids.org/en/CountryResponses/Regions/SubSaharanAfrica.asp) Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region most heavily affected by HIV. In 2008, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 67% of the HIV infections worldwide, 68% of new HIV infections among adults and 91% of new HIV infections among children.
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”
JAMES 1:27
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A word on
Operational Philosophy God’s Kids has inherited a philosophy of operational openness from its founder, Dion Quinn, that is both simple and freeing. In the continuum of options available for any operation there is a line that separates right from wrong. The objective is to insure that you remain on the side of right. In reality it is complicated by the fact that there is normally a gray or fuzzy area on the side of right so that the separating line is not always clear. Dion’s and thus God’s Kids philosophy is that God’s Kids be completely on the side of right. It’s simple. And it is wonderfully freeing.
— Hayne Baucom, Chairman of the Board
board of directors
Hayne Baucom
Dion Quinn
Nancy Tichy
Chairman of the Board
Founder, God’s Kids
Director
George Tillery CEO
Nuclear Engineer, Retired Founder of Donor Automation, Inc.
CEO, MSI HVAC
Center for World Mission – Inland Empire
A-Z Bus
Ben Rasberry
Ruth May Siegrist, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant
Professor of Education
Charles Feenstra Board Member
Management Action Programs (MAP)
Emeritus
Charles Feenstra Dairy LLC
G OD ’S K I D S 2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0 A N N UA L R E P ORT
giving orphans hope
2009/2010 ANNUAL REPORT
2009/2010 ANNUAL REPORT
OUR PURPOSE:
to give orphans
hope future. and a
Our Mission That every orphan will know that Jesus loves them and cares for their needs. God’s Kids strives to demonstrate Christ’s love for orphans by raising the standard of care and accountability for orphanages around the world. We work to: • Provide quality nutrition, clean places to live, and adequate medical care for orphans • Equip orphans with a Christian education and life skills • Raise a generation of orphans prepared to be significant contributors to their society
Our Passion Awareness. We monitor the education of all our orphans to ensure they are truly getting a meaningful education to prepare them for the future within their culture. Accountability. We require appropriate traditional performance indicators such as grades but we probe deeper into the actual degree of learning represented by those grades. We personally ask the children questions they should know the answer to at their grade level. If we find a wide discrepancy between what their grades say they know and what they actually know, we take proactive steps to resolve the discrepancy. This was the case in Liberia when, upon questioning a graduating 12th grader, it was discovered his reading and basic math skills were far below grade level. Upon testing over 100 of the orphans and finding this was the rule, not the exception, we hired an American teacher to move to Liberia. Her three year mission is to train up master teachers who will not only educate our orphans at a higher level but will allow for community children attending these same schools to likewise improve their actual knowledge base. In all that we do, God’s Kids strives for excellence in obedience to God’s Word.
G OD ’S K I D S 2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0 A N N UA L R E P ORT
Our Ministry in
India A ministry partner, India’s Kids supports two orphanages in Northern India. They are both located in Ukhrul District, (Kalapahar) Manipur, India. India’s Kids provides the funding and makes regular personal visits. God’s Kids provides the administrative support and has participated in funding construction projects.
Jacob’s Well Children’s Home:
Mercy Children’s Home:
Director: Careson Sara
Director: Rev. Deepak Bardewa
Number of children: 42
Number of children: 30
COMPLETED JACOB’S WELL PROJECTS:
COMPLETED MERCY HOME PROJECTS:
• • • • • •
• • • • • • • • • •
Ceiling installation Yeoman School building Clean water piping, pump and basin Solar electricity upgrade Mattresses, blankets, mosquito nets Warm clothing for each child
Constructed kitchen drainage Renovated water storage tank Replaced bathroom buckets, cups, kitchenware Installed bamboo fence around property Bought school backpacks Obtained additional water supply Bought new mosquito nets Obtained bibles for all kids Conducted memory verse competition Conducted IQ testing
G OD ’S K I D S 2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0 A N N UA L R E P ORT
Our Ministry in
Liberia In Liberia, West Africa, God’s Kids supports fourteen orphanages that are home to about 900 children. A Liberian pastor, John Kpewoan is our national director in Liberia. He personally runs an orphanage, The Lord’s Prayer, and he supervises thirteen others on our behalf. Each orphanage has its own home director and staff but John oversees them for us, manages all funds, visits often and advises our International office of all needs for the fourteen homes. John is our point of contact for all reports and photographs as well. In July 2009, during a routine visit to Liberia we discovered a challenge with our two year old education program. This was confirmed in October 2009 when a retired college professor and one of our staff performed a series of assessments in basic reading and math skills. The results showed a discrepancy between the grades we had been getting and actual skills learned. With the permission of the Liberian government, an American teacher has moved to Liberia. Her three year mission is to train up master teachers who will not only educate our orphans at a higher level but will allow for community children attending these same schools to likewise improve their actual knowledge base.
Liberian Orphanages:
Completed Projects:
Amazing Grace Anna Enoch Calvary Mission Children Relief Children Rescue Ctr Christian O and A Fairfield Baptist
• • • • •
Hebron Home The Lord’s Prayer Monrovia Training Academy Mother Victoria Thomas New Hope Orphanage Phebe Grey Sis Iye
Hired/placed American teacher Installed swings at all locations Installed see saws at all locations Facility repairs as needed Fun and game items (soccer, etc.)
G OD ’S K I D S 2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0 A N N UA L R E P ORT
Our Ministry in
Mexico God’s Kids supports an orphanage in Tijuana with several ministry partners. God’s Kids provides both financial and administrative support. We also support six feeding centers and an orphanage for disabled children in Mazatlan, Mexico. Everyone thinks of Mazatlan as a tourist area, and it is, but just a few miles inland from the ocean one sees a very different Mazatlan.
Casa Hogar Belen:
Amistad Familiar Mazatlan:
Director: Antonia Barajas Pena
Director: Pastor Carlos Marinelarena
Number of children: 186
Five feeding centers feeding about 300 children daily and one orphanage for disabled kids.
COMPLETED PROJECTS:
Our presence in Mazatlan is different from our normal ministry. Founded in 2003, the feeding centers provide meals up to twice daily, a safe place to do homework and to play and of course Bible studies and worship. The kids then go home to their single moms who know their kids were safe and well cared for during the day.
Laundry room constructed through the support of a family business.
We have also participated in construction projects such as room additions and restrooms.
G OD ’S K I D S 2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0 A N N UA L R E P ORT
Our Ministry in the
Philippines 2010 marks five years that Village of Hope has been ministering in Bohol, Philippines. Directors Mike and Jeanette Propp went there to establish a Bible college and found that God was leading them to also minister to orphans in the area. They constructed the facility from the ground up. The Village campus presently has four operational homes. Each home has 10 kids and a set of house parents. The concept gives the children an environment that more closely resembles living with a large family as opposed to the traditional format of a barracks style facility. God’s Kids has been blessed to partner financially and administratively with the Village of Hope. Directors: Mike and Jeanette Propp Number of children: 40 (10 per each of four homes)
G OD ’S K I D S 2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0 A N N UA L R E P ORT
Our Ministry in
Thailand Our presence in Thailand is along the Thai and Myanmar (Burma) border. Most of the children are from a people group called the Karen (pronounced Ka-Rehn). The Karen are frequently the victims of violence in their homeland and many of these children lost their parents as a result.
Huay Mah Lai (pronounced Why-Ma-Lie) Children’s Home: Directors: Paw Lu Lu and Nan Doe Number of children: 28 Paw Lu Lu and her husband Nan Doe are of the Karen people who had to flee their native Burma. They have a special love for their fellow Karen refugees which led them to found a Safe House for the mentally ill, sick, disabled and those with terminal illnesses. The orphanage was founded later to take care of the children of these Safe House adults who could not care for them. Later the orphanage took on children who had lost one or both parents to killings in Burma. These refugee children frequently face the possibility of repatriation, which puts them at high risk. Captured boys are often used as human mine sweepers and girls face other atrocities at the hands of their captors, being sold into the sex slave trade. COMPLETED PROJECTS: A smooth and successful hand off from an American missionary to an Australian who helps us oversee operations and keeps us up to date on the local environment. The outgoing missionary is Christopher Mills, who ministered in Thailand for several years. His primary mission was in support of the mission of his California church but he graciously helped God’s Kids. We are very grateful to Chris for his faithfulness and willingness to go the extra mile (literally many miles) for God’s Kids.
G OD ’S K I D S 2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0 A N N UA L R E P ORT
Every 14 seconds another child becomes an orphan. There are more orphans in the world – 143 million – than the entire populations of Canada and Mexico combined, and that number is predicted to continue to rise for at least another decade! Extreme poverty, conflict, and disease – especially AIDS – are the largest contributing factors in the growing world orphan crisis. AIDS has hit sub-Saharan Africa the hardest, devastating children, families, and the entire continent. According to UNAIDS/WHO 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update (http://www.unaids.org/en/CountryResponses/Regions/SubSaharanAfrica.asp) Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region most heavily affected by HIV. In 2008, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 67% of the HIV infections worldwide, 68% of new HIV infections among adults and 91% of new HIV infections among children.
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”
JAMES 1:27
G OD ’S K I D S 2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0 A N N UA L R E P ORT
A word on
Operational Philosophy God’s Kids has inherited a philosophy of operational openness from its founder, Dion Quinn, that is both simple and freeing. In the continuum of options available for any operation there is a line that separates right from wrong. The objective is to insure that you remain on the side of right. In reality it is complicated by the fact that there is normally a gray or fuzzy area on the side of right so that the separating line is not always clear. Dion’s and thus God’s Kids philosophy is that God’s Kids be completely on the side of right. It’s simple. And it is wonderfully freeing.
— Hayne Baucom, Chairman of the Board
board of directors
Hayne Baucom
Dion Quinn
Nancy Tichy
Chairman of the Board
Founder, God’s Kids
Director
George Tillery CEO
Nuclear Engineer, Retired Founder of Donor Automation, Inc.
CEO, MSI HVAC
Center for World Mission – Inland Empire
A-Z Bus
Ben Rasberry
Ruth May Siegrist, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant
Professor of Education
Charles Feenstra Board Member
Management Action Programs (MAP)
Emeritus
Charles Feenstra Dairy LLC
G OD ’S K I D S 2 0 0 9 / 2 0 1 0 A N N UA L R E P ORT
giving orphans hope
2009/2010 ANNUAL REPORT
