orphan care winter 2012 defend the fatherless

“Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.” Psalm 82:3

all god’s children international our mission |

A child-centered ministry, answering God’s call to serve through adoption, orphan care and missions.

our vision |

To be a leader in empowering and mobilizing God’s people to give hope and facilitate change for children around the world. Through our programs and services we seek to provide a better life for children, within their family of origin, within their country of origin, or with a forever family through adoption. We will achieve our vision with a culture of quality, communication, honesty, ethics, compassion, and commitment.

our values |

Christ Focused Child and Family Centered Ethical • Compassionate • Transparent Integrity • Respect • Honesty Accountable

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress...” James 1:27

welcome With your help, we brought God’s love and hope to 8,157 orphans, vulnerable children, widows and community members around the world in 2011. At the heart of All God’s Children International’s ministry lies an overwhelming compassion for the orphan. While we have been blessed to serve tens of thousands of orphans over the past 21 years, the need continues to grow. The latest statistics of the Global Orphan Crisis can be found on page 18, but the real story is found throughout these pages – caring hearts reaching out and helping children in need, one child at a time. On our own, we are ordinary people. United in God’s ministry, we can produce extraordinary results. If you’re a long-time friend and supporter of our work, we gratefully thank you. If you’re learning about AGCI for the first time, we look forward to partnering with you to transform the lives of even more orphans and vulnerable children who are in need of arms outstretched in love. We encourage you to explore these pages and then visit our website for more information. We invite you to join with us in answering God’s command to “…look after orphans and widows in their distress…” James 1:27 (NIV).

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bulgaria | team creates art therapy room By Amy Coffee, Trip Participant and AGCI Adoptive Parent When I first heard about AGCI’s mission trip to Bulgaria that was focused around an Art Therapy Room my heart just about leapt out of my chest! What an innovative and exciting blessing to bring to an orphanage! When you think of an orphanage, most people’s minds go to the stereotypical image of a dark, dreary, and lonely place. But now imagine an orphanage that has been blessed by AGCI over the years and is now able to provide a healthy, light-soaked, loving atmosphere where orphans can not only grow physically but emotionally as well! That is what we were able to see firsthand. Art is a so healing and therapeutic—a way for children (and adults) to express themselves and release emotions that are hard to communicate. As Pablo Picasso said it so beautifully, “Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Most of the children in orphanages have way too much “dust” on their souls! What a privilege to be a part of AGCI’s project to bring light, healing, and ‘feather dusting’ to these precious children! Leaving the orphanage was hard, but knowing that the children now had a bright and colorful room stocked with art and music supplies lifted my spirits. We were able to provide for them hope, enrichment, and great potential for healing - what an amazing and impactful project to be a part of!! If you would like to learn more about AGCI’s orphan care efforts in Bulgaria, please visit us online at http://www.allgodschildren.org/orphan-care/bulgaria-missions.

guatemala | never give up hope We ask that you continue to lift up in prayer with us these four children still in Guatemala waiting to come home to their forever families. Please pray for each of these children and pray for their families that God will continue to give them hope and answer their prayers for justice.

Chelsea

Nayeli

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Claudia

haiti | mission trip story By Frank Betzer Development Director – AGCI As our Embrace Missions team drove through the streets of Port-au-Prince, wet and cold from the drenching rains that poured through the screened sides of our truck, a hush fell over everyone. Just moments before, we were marveling at the beauty of terraced hillsides, steep valleys, and homes perched atop one another in the mountains outside the capital. But as we passed by crumpled buildings and row upon row of tents we were reminded that our discomfort was They receive food and shelter, education and vocational only momentary. Soon, we would be back at our guest training, and an understanding of Christ’s love that is alive house and able to take shelter from the rain. We would and evident in each of them. put on clean, dry clothes, AGCI is partnering with Global Orphan Hope eat a hot meal, and sleep to create a new orphan home, Hope Village. in a comfortable bed. We Four different Embrace Missions teams have wouldn’t be wondering if our done everything from marking the foundation few possessions would be and building walls to raising the roof. This new swept away by the next rain. home will open in 2012 and provide care for Today, the Haitian tent cities 50 infants, toddlers, and children with special remain; a grim reminder needs. Everyone who has participated in this that 600,000 Haitians still effort has been moved by the magnitude of the have no place to call home moment – the sheer responsibility of stepping since the January 2010 out in faith to make a difference for some of earthquake. A tropical Haiti’s 300,000 orphans. At least for some of the rainstorm had us cringing children in Haiti who wonder, “When will at the site of water-soaked it be better?” the answer is soon, very soon. children and adults seeking shelter amidst overflowing gutters and alleys strewn with garbage and human waste. Whispers of starvation, violence, sex trafficking, disease, and worst of all utter hopelessness cried out to us from the acres of gray tents. As one of our team members, a father of three girls later expressed so movingly, “I saw myself in that place, with my little girls huddled in a tent corner trying to stay dry, and I heard them whisper, ‘When will Daddy make it better?’” Yet amidst the abject poverty of Haiti, we also experienced pockets of hope. At Faith Missions International’s Gift of God Orphanage in Port-auPrince, we were greeted by 50 joyful children who are well loved and cared for.

You can make a difference for an orphan in Haiti today. Join an Embrace Missions team or support AGCI’s orphan care work in Haiti. Learn more at

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china | love creates miracles By Erica Stillar Orphan Care and Missions Manager – AGCI Love permeates every corner of New Day Foster Home. You can see it everywhere you turn, in every preschool classroom, in every crib, on every volunteer’s face. Love is king in these walls, and the children are the evidence that love creates miracles. Each child that is welcomed into the New Day family is cared for in the most supreme way, and each little life is proof that prayer and sacrifice can accomplish so much. What makes this home so special? The difference is that each of the children that come into New Day’s foster home in Beijing are considered the “most severe” of medical cases. As government orphanages struggle to find the funding and resources to care for children and perform the necessary surgeries many children need, they contact New Day, knowing that the child will have a better chance of survival. Once the child arrives at New Day, they are instantly welcomed with a huge embrace, the loving tender care a mother would give, and the best medical care they can offer. When the child comes back to the home after surgery, they come back to an environment that is well taken care of, and full of passionate people that are ready to do everything it takes to ensure their full healing and recovery. Seeing the love that these special children receive on a daily basis makes me proud to continue partnering with this great home. I am assured that love and prayer is being poured out on each and every child, and that each and every day, love wins. For the past three years I’ve had the privilege of taking teams of volunteers to orphanages all across the globe. Each one of our partners works tirelessly to care for what we would call “the least of these.” Many of the homes we work with focus on caring for “special needs children.” The needs and issues range in degree and complexity in each country. Before I started working at AGCI I had never spent a significant amount of time with a child that had a

disability. I admit I probably had some of the same ideas, and frankly, misconceptions, that many others have when they think of children with special needs. What I didn’t realize is that these children are not just special because they have some sort of physical limitation, but they are special in the way they open their hearts and love with a complete lack of inhibition. These children are special indeed, only in a way that I would have completely overlooked and missed if I hadn’t spent time with them. They really aren’t much different than a “healthy child.” They still play like typical kids, they still laugh and smile, they still dream and hope, and they love—boy, do they love. I encourage each of you to step out in faith, to allow God to open the doors of your heart, to either welcome a child with special needs into your home through adoption, or to serve on one of our volunteer teams. AGCI has been placing children into homes for over 20 years. We consider it a great honor that over 50% of the children placed in the past year are special needs adoptions. In a world with so many children living in orphanages, we feel like it has been our personal calling to advocate for those that are so often the most overlooked and the least desirable, bringing them into loving homes that see each child for how special they truly are. AGCI is currently advocating for these two Waiting Children. These are just a few of the 1,000 children in China who wait for a loving family.

Girl, age 3 Arachnoid Cyst, Dropsy of Brain

Boy, age 2 Cleft Lip & Palate, Congenital Heart Disease

china | occupational therapy for orphans By Dr. Tara Hubbard-McCormick, OTD, OTR/L, Trip Participant AGCI and Global Occupational Therapy (G.O.T.) Orphans teamed up last September to provide occupational therapy services and training to the staff at two orphanages located just outside of Beijing, China.

The staff of both homes provides amazing care and love to children living with special needs. It was clear that they not only provide wonderful care but are also very dedicated to provide these children with therapeutic activities and environments in which they will continue to grow and develop their motor, cognitive, and emotional skills. Unlike many orphanages, New Day Foster Home has a full therapy room with a suspension system, mats, therapy balls, climbing ladder, and a few swings. This home is staffed with therapists, doctors, and nurses that are eager to learn new methods and techniques of therapy as they have limited professional therapy training in China. The staff had modern equipment that had not been used regularly just because they lacked the training to feel adequate in its use, so to see the enthusiasm of the therapist along with the children who were receiving a whole new type of therapy was unbelievable. Words cannot express the gratitude they all showed through their laughter, smiles and singing. Harmony House, although more limited in their resources, also provided an abundance of love and care to their children. Due to lack of funds they had no therapy equipment, no therapist on staff and few if any splints, braces, and orthotics for these children; however what they lacked in resources they made up for in their amount of enthusiasm and excitement with the occupational therapy training that was provided to

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the caregivers. Training at Harmony House mainly consisted of teaching positioning, range of motion, developmental skills like facilitation of rolling, sitting, reaching, grasping, crawling, and standing. Self-care skills training such as adaptive feeding techniques for infants recovering from cleft palate and/or lip, dressing, toileting strategies and routines were also provided. I thank God for having planted this gift to work with these children in my colleagues as well as in myself because it is such a great gift to hear these children’s’ laughter, see their beautiful smiles, and see their inner personalities shine through. If you are interested in joining AGCI and G.O.T. Orphans to work with children in China this August, please contact AGCI at [email protected].

taiwan | new promise of life home By Frank Betzer Development Director – AGCI Reaching Out. In a one-of-a-kind collaboration with Taitung Christian Hospital, AGCI is extending our reach to serve the needs of orphans into the villages surrounding Taitung. The children in these aboriginal communities are in need of medical care, clothing, educational materials, and nutritional supplements. Join us in demonstrating God’s love to every child we reach.

“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14 191,000 Unborn Children Need Love and Protection. Taiwan’s abortion rate is a tragedy. According to recent estimates, the abortion rate approaches or even exceeds the birthrate. Between 30 percent and 50 percent of all Taiwanese women have had an abortion, due to the stigma associated with being an unwed mother. AGCI’s child-centered efforts in Taiwan are designed to improve life for both the unborn child and the child who is living in need. Pregnancy Support. To give hope for unborn babies and pregnant young women, AGCI is providing a birth mother home as a sanctuary while they make the decision to choose life and keep their baby or place their infant for adoption. This ministry meets the needs of young unwed mothers by providing ongoing counseling and pre- and post-natal care, as well as monthly care packages of food, clothing, and vitamins. This program seeks to ensure a better life for both mother and child. Your gift of $25, $50, $100 or more can help provide the support an unwed mother needs in order to choose life for her unborn child. Pro-life Abstinence Education. In order to reduce the abortion rate in Taiwan, pro-life abstinence education is desperately needed. In cooperation with area hospitals, schools, and the local government, AGCI is providing pro-life abstinence education in area schools. One recent presentation reached more than 1,000 young women in just one day with critically needed information about abstinence before marriage and the options available in choosing life, rather than abortion. You can provide the information and counseling a young woman needs to make a choice for life with a gift of just $50.

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www.allgodschildren.org/orphan-care.

ghana | first hannah’s hope foster care home For many women, our efforts will ensure that a mother and child remain together. In other situations, mothers who are unable to care for their child will be provided an option of international adoption through AGCI’s new Ghana Pilot Program.

He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.” Psalm 9:12

In the capital city, Accra, AGCI is opening our first Hannah’s Hope Foster Home in 2012 to serve 15-20 children from birth to three years old. This new home will continue the tradition of Hannah’s Hope, providing exceptional holistic care, love, nurturing and medical attention to children residing within our walls as they wait for permanent homes.

Ghana was named The World’s Fastest Growing Economy in 2011, but progress is quickly leaving many of this west African nation’s most vulnerable people behind; particularly unborn babies, orphans and young women.

Our partner orphan care home, Haven of Hope, serves children 4 to 18 years of age. Through expansion efforts supported by AGCI, Haven of Hope will have the capacity to care for up to 50 children.

While ranked the second “least failed state in Africa,” Ghana is considered to be one of the continent’s most successful governments in serving its citizens. However, day-to-day corruption is rampant. For Ghana’s orphans, this means that many face a life of human trafficking, crime, poverty and debilitating disease. Meanwhile, the country’s abortion rate is rapidly rising. Although the majority of Ghana’s 24-million people are Christian (69%), it has become very common for single young women to seek abortions rather than consider raising a child or making a plan for adoption.

With your help, AGCI can make a difference in the lives of thousands of children in Ghana. We are seeking the support of our families and friends to raise $7,000 a month which will enable us to care for ten orphans in our Hannah’s Hope Foster Home and to protect hundreds of unborn children through our Promise of Life education and birth mother counseling program.

AGCI is working to provide hope for orphans, unborn babies and their mothers. Our goal is simple: to prevent abortions by offering viable alternatives through our Promise of Life abstinence education program, outreach efforts, and birth mother counseling services. AGCI’s Promise of Life program will reach thousands of young women through our support of abstinence education classes, a weekly Christian radio program and distribution of an inspiring pro-life book written by our Ghana program director. We will also serve hundreds of mothers with pre- and post-natal care and counseling each year.

Ghana is a nation of great promise and opportunity for some of its citizens but for many unborn children and orphans there will be no promise; no opportunity, no life, if we do not act now.

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the faces of our work in 2011

transforming orphan’s lives for more than 20 years

adoptions: in-process

completed adoptions: 20 mission teams: 1 families served: 2 children served: 84 total impact: 109

completed adoptions: 16 vision team: 1 children served: 2,000 total impact: 2,016

completed adoptions: 8 children served: 160 total impact: 168

mission teams: 3 children served: 112 total impact: 112

completed adoptions: 12 mission teams: 1 children served: 268 total impact: 280

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adoption pilot program first hannah’s hope foster home new promise of life program

adoptions: in-process mission teams: 5 children served: 1,114 families served: 115 total impact: 1,129

completed adoptions: 102 mission teams: 1 children served: 3,759 families served: 995 total impact: 4,754

completed adoptions: 2 total impact: 2

completed adoptions: 1 children served: 50 total impact: 51

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ethiopia | carrying hope By Frank Betzer Development Director – AGCI

With the support of AGCI’s donors, BSOH is also “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, providing daily meals and supplies for school children, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give equipping farmers with bee hives to produce honey and much more. you HOPE and a future.’” Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) All these thoughts flickered through my mind as I settled As I walked across the steaming tarmac to our plane, into the plane. More importantly, I was focused on Hope. I was filled with anxiety. Two hours earlier I had been I couldn’t begin to imagine what he was thinking; his first entrusted with the responsibility of carrying “Hope” plane flight and traveling with a stranger who looked so from Gambela to Addis Ababa—the next step in a journey to bring a young boy closer to his forever family. different and spoke words he couldn’t understand. I had arrived in Gambela four days earlier with Almaz, AGCI’s Ethiopia director, to learn about the orphan care needs in the region. Amidst our schedule of meetings I lost my heart to the children at Brothers and Sisters Orphan Home (BSOH). In a land visited by few Americans, the children were enthralled by my pale skin and straight hair. They reveled in playing soccer with me or seeing their photos on my camera screen. Mostly, they gave great hugs.

As I tried to comfort him, I offered a prayer of thanks for Hope, whose birth mother had named him out of a desire that he would have a better life than she had known. I prayed for the staff at Brothers and Sisters and the special mothers at Hannah’s Hope, whose care for all the children is so important. Lastly, I prayed for his forever family, the loving couple who had begun preparing for this young boy months earlier. In Addis, one of the special mothers from Hannah’s Hope was there to embrace him with hugs and words of comfort. Before I knew it, he was out of my sight. Sadly, I left Addis the next day and was not able to see Hope again. For weeks afterward, I continued to pray for him and his forever family. Months later I received an email from an adopting family. With the exchange of just a few details, I knew I was meeting Hope’s father, via email. I look forward to a day in the near future when I will be able to see Hope, again.

As the Region’s first and only orphan home, BSOH has profoundly impacted the 15 infants and children in their care as well as the greater community. We visited a corn field where BSOH helped start a women’s farming cooperative. They rented the region’s one available tractor to till the soil and replaced the traditional sharpened sticks with metal hoes. The results were staggering; the women’s field was almost a foot in height while the neighboring field was only four inches high. These women will have enough food to feed their families and earn money for other necessities.

Gambela is the smallest of Ethiopia’s nine ethnic regions, encompassing an area about the size of Vermont. It is a land of lush tropical rainforest with mangroves and swamp grasses. 12

ethiopia | hedase elementary school In early January, an AGCI Embrace mission team led by Dan Wilson, retired Seattle Mariners catcher and vice-chair of AGCI’s Board, and his wife Annie, traveled to Addis Ababa to start one of the largest orphan care community construction projects AGCI has ever undertaken. Hedase Elementary School: Hedase, which means “renewal” in Amharic, was named with the hope that through improved education, Ethiopian children will have a better future than previous generations. Admittedly, the 1,300+ students at this K-8 school have a chance of being part of a better future than most Ethiopian children. According to statistics from UNICEF, they have already beaten some very tough odds:

Making a Difference: In less than a week, the 17-person AGCI team provided the more than 1,300 children at Hedase Elementary School with: • Soccer Field – leveled, graded and surfaced • Basketball and Volleyball Courts – leveled, graded, and surfaced • Sports equipment and school supplies

• Nearly 1 in every 10 Ethiopian babies die at birth • Of the 9 infants that survive, another child will die before reaching the age of five • Only 36% of Ethiopian children will ever go to school However, these children are from one of the poorest neighborhoods in Addis and are still at great risk. Because of poverty and disease, only 18% of all children in Ethiopia stay in school to grade five. Sadly, like most schools, Hedase’s classroom building is relatively new but the students and teachers lack even the most basic infrastructure and resources.

The team also started construction of: • New Restroom Building with eight new latrines – four for the boys and four for the girls • New Library Building

Challenges at Hedase:

These two projects will be completed over the next several weeks by our Ethiopian contractor and as funds become available.

• Inadequate Sanitation – A corrugated metal shed hides the school’s one hole in the ground that more than 1,300 children use each day. • Limited Educational Resources – The library has only a handful of textbooks, reading materials and other resources. These few items are threatened by the wet season rains and rodents because the building is so dilapidated. • Inadequate Sports and Play Fields – Hedase has plenty of open space around the classroom building but the fields are rough and rocky ground that makes any form of organized play or sports almost impossible. In the wet season the ground becomes a muddy swamp; in the dry season large rocks create dangerous obstacles. There is no equipment for the children to use like soccer balls and nets, basketballs and hoops, and toys for the younger children. 13

Through the generous support of AGCI donors, more than 75% of the funds needed for this project have already been raised. But an additional $10,000 is needed to complete the project. If you would like to help a vulnerable child have the opportunity for an improved education and a better future, please donate today. Learn more about the Hedase Elementary School Project. Visit AGCI’s blog to read daily reports from the team and other updates at www.allgodschildren.org/blog.

ethiopia | micro business start up grants What began as the faithful efforts of one Ethiopian widow, Rachel, to provide for her son has grown to become the hope of hundreds of women. AGCI’s Micro Business Start Up Grants provide widows and orphaned young women in the Tigray Region and Addis Ababa the skills and financial support to begin their own businesses and pass on their knowledge to other women in need. In just two years the program has grown from 13 women operating two hair salons and one bakery to include hundreds of new micro businesses that involve baking, basket making, embroidery, bead work, and more. Depending on the business, grants range from about $420 to $650 (the equivalent of a year’s income to 18 months’ income in Ethiopia.)

As one widow recently shared with us when she learned about the Micro Business Start Up Grants: “Our family has only survived because of good, generous people in America. I am forever grateful and praise God for them. But I don’t want my children to grow up depending on their help. Today, you give me hope that I can provide for my children and that they will have a future. They will learn to care for themselves and for their children, too. Please tell the people who have made this possible how thankful I am and that I pray for them.” Our passion is to empower Ethiopia’s widows and orphaned young women by providing the opportunity to become self-sufficient and the skills to raise their children to be self-sufficient, too. Help us raise $80,000 to provide grants for 150 additional women’s businesses including rent and utilities, equipment and materials, and financial training.

rwanda | acres of hope Ten Talents International (TTI), an AGCI orphan care partner, is currently in the process of developing a piece of property called Acres of Hope. The plan is to build four transitional homes as a safe haven for street children on the seven and half acre property. Currently, TTI operates Home of Innocence, a home that houses 16 boys that have been rescued off the streets of Kigali. The additional transitional homes on Acres of Hope will be modeled after the Home of Innocence, a home that children are brought in off the streets and stay for six months or up to one year. During this time the staff of TTI love on the kids, take care of their medical needs, pray with them and over them, counsel them, enroll them in school, and prepare them for a life in a permanent family. At the same time that these street children are being ministered to, TTI looks for families to place them in permanently.

With an estimated 7,000 street children living in Rwanda, the need is overwhelming. One of the greatest areas of need is a girl’s home. As Home of Innocence is a home exclusively for boys, TTI has to turn girls away with no place to recommend to them that will be safe. For this reason, the first transitional home built on Acres of Hope will be for girls and infants, with room to house up to 16. With each home TTI builds on Acres of Hope, they will be able to place about 16 of these vulnerable children into loving Godly families each year. In five years, that would be 80 children that would go from being an orphan with no hope, to being a loved child with endless possibilities. Acres of Hope truly is a hope-filled promise to children in need of the love of a family. Construction is scheduled to begin this spring and the total funding required for this project is approximately $60,000. If you are interested in helping AGCI partner with Ten Talents to build this safe home for girls and infants, please donate online at: www.allgodschildren.org/help-orphan. 14

consider a mission trip 163 Million Reasons to Go “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this, to look after orphans in their distress.” James 1:27 At All God’s Children International, our Embrace Mission trips are centered on caring for the orphan child through a holistic approach of loving children individually, changing their living environment, and improving the surrounding community. There is no greater way to embrace the needs of a child than by extending your own hands. Join one of our Preplanned Individual Embrace Missions trips this year. Dates are listed below.

2012 dates dates 2012

country country

trip type type trip

estimated price estimated

mar-may may 24-28 jun 9-18 jul 13-22 aug 2-11 aug 17-26

RWANDA HAITI BULGARIA ETHIOPIA RWANDA CHINA

Group/Family Individuals Individuals Individuals Individuals Individuals

$1,450 + airfare $770 + airfare sold out $1,650 + airfare $1,400 + airfare $1,450 + airfare $1,250 +airfare

If you would like to schedule a group or family trip or would like more information, please contact AGCI at (800) 214-6719 or e-mail our missions department at [email protected].

a Free r o f p u n to sig s Webinar n o i s s i M Embrace site: visit our web rg/webinars .o n e r d il h c s d www.allgo

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2011 giving On behalf of all the ch ildren and families arou nd the world that we are honored to serve, than k you for your generous supp ort. Your support is es sential to our ability to answ er God’s call by transfo rm ing the lives of orphans th rough adoption, orph an care and missions – one ch ild at a time. Due to space limitatio ns, donors listed are AG CI Sponsors (s) and/or co ntributors of $500 or more in 2011. All God’s Chi ldren International is very grateful for support fro m all of our contribut ors.

Jeanette Foote (s)

Paul & Shelley Johnson (s)

Mike & Meg Foster (s)

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Child Aid International

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Your gift—each month, quarter, or at any time of the year—will change lives physically, practically, and spiritually. The reward for that is powerful and eternal. When you commit to a pledge, you are giving both to the immediate needs of children all over the world, and to the long-term sustainability of our homes. take the next step Become an Orphan Care Sponsor by filling out the form below and sending it to:

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By taking part in an Embrace Missions trip, you will have the opportunity to personally be a part of the orphan care programs you support. As we connect both of these life-changing ministries together, we will share God’s work with God’s people in a new way. Now you can go and be His hands and feet, working with us as we help orphans and others in need around the world.

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AGCI and your church can join together to make a difference in the lives of children in need. We can send an AGCI representative to your church and tailor the presentation to meet your church’s needs and vision. Our purpose is to teach believers what they can do, equip them to be advocates, and enable them to be a voice for the voiceless.

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Orphaned children all over the world are waiting, hoping, and praying that they will become dear to someone—that somewhere there will be one special family that finds delight and great joy in welcoming them home! Each one waits expectantly, with a hopeful heart, for a family to come. You could be that parent through our adoption program. Contact our Inquiry department ([email protected]) today for more info!

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