Children of the World Review
Some 131 orphanages minister throughout the world in the Church of God, most of them founded and sustained by local churches or territories. Seventy-six of them have received aid from World Missions, Operation Compassion and/or the Lazarus Foundation. A renewed Children of the World emphasis will be introduced at the 2010 General Assembly to continue and upgrade the church’s care of children, and the offering will be designated for this purpose.
In preparation for the launch of the Children of the World Foundation, a board representing the Church of God Executive Committee, World Missions, Care and related ministries reviewed the accomplishments of the 2000 Children of the World emphasis, when Church of God people gave over $5 million in a General Assembly offering.
$5,181,013.75 was disbursed in the 18 months following the Assembly, with 57 percent designated for international and 43 percent for United States children’s ministries. The gifts were shared among 39 international and 23 U.S. children’s ministries. The majority of the money was assigned for capital projects―land purchase, building construction, vehicles, furnishings, and so forth. A booklet was mailed to all pastors on October 13, 2001, explaining in detail how the money was allocated.
World Missions-related projects and funding** was as follows:
Montevideo, Uruguay: $75,000
Children of the Dump, Paraguay: $100,000
Botota, Colombia: $50,000
Abandoned Girls Home, Colombia: $60,000
Karachi, Pakistan: $15,600
Ukraine (three orphanages): $150,000
Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya: $85,370
Nyamphande, Zambia: $235,000
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: $25,000
Santarem, Brazil: $50,000
Chile :$40,000
City of Refuge, Sao Paulo, Brazil: $230,000
Samaritan House, Bulgaria: $115,000
Poza Rica, Mexico : $95,000
Peru: $60,000
Ministry Center, Bulgaria: $350,000
Managua, Nicaragua: $100,000
Honduras : $38,000
Nutritional Centers (11), Honduras: $115,000
Capetown, South Africa: $30,000
Mufulira, Zambia: $100,000
Korean Children’s Home, China : $100,000
Manila, Philippines: $100,000
Romania (three homes): $25,000
Prague, Czech Republic: $100,000
Hogar Esperanza, Honduras: $40,200
Carmen Center, Honduras: $10,000
Monrovia, Liberia : $45,000
Turkana, Kenya : $72,500
Casa Shalom, Guatemala: $50,000
Soweto, South Africa: $30,000
Durban, South Africa: $30,000
Mutakura, Rwanda: $50,000
Ethiopia (three centers): $25,000
Good Samaritan, Jamaica: $50,000
PFCAL, Vietnam: $50,000
House of Hope, Venezuela: $5,000
Calcutta, India: $25,000
Yangon, Myanmar : $25,000
Total International Gifts : $2,951,670
** Information concerning the projects for which the funds were allocated is available in World Missions.
