Children’s HopeChest

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

For the latest news on the Adacar Carepoint in Uganda, including upcoming mission trips, capital improvements and sponsorship opportunities, please visit

www.hopechest.org/adacar

CHILDREN’S HOPECHEST

Welcome to Southside’s orphan care ministry with Children’s HopeChest!  Southside has joined with Children’s HopeChest to partner with the community of Adacar, in the Katakwi district of Uganda.  There are about 200 orphans in the program, and we currently have sponsors for about 115 of them.  Through sponsorship, the children receive food, clean water, basic health care, and discipleship from Ugandan believers in Christ.  We are currently working with HopeChest to develop a CarePoint for the children, starting with a kitchen for the feeding program and a pavilion for meeting, and followed by pit latrines, a playing field, and more.  Our focus is on building relationships with the people of Adacar to bring lasting change for the community through three stages of development, “Survive, Thrive, and Succeed.”

HopeChest is about to launch a new website with pages specific to our Adacar CarePoint.  Through this site, we’ll have regular communication between sponsors, HopeChest, and Adacar.  We’ll be able to track capital campaigns for the CarePoint, read updates written by the disciplers working with our kids each week, view a live stream of HopeChest Twitter and Facebook feeds, search the database for our Adacar kids, sponsored and unsponsored, write to our kids, make donations and set up our online giving, and view all Adacar photos and videos on Flickr and YouTube.  This site will revolutionize the sponsor experience and we look forward to sharing it with you soon.  Until the launch, please contact Melanie Dale at melanie@wakinggiants.com for information about Children’s HopeChest and child sponsorship.

You can visit the HopeChest website at www.hopechest.org to learn more.

Mission

Children’s HopeChest believes that every orphan has the right to know God, experience the blessing of family, and have the opportunity to develop independent living skills.

History

Children’s HopeChest was founded in 1994 in response to the devastating need of orphans in Russia following the fall of the Iron Curtain. These children had serious basic needs – for clothing, food, medical and facilities – but more compelling was their need for love, human interaction and care, and future hope. In response, Children’s HopeChest developed a holistic approach which meets medical, physical, educational, emotional, and spiritual needs of orphaned children and youth, in fulfillment of our mission.

Strategy

Our unique model connects churches, organizations and passionate individuals with orphanages – and now orphan CarePoints – to provide consistent help, training, and discipleship. We have taken this successful model to serve orphans in Swaziland, and more recently in Ethiopia and Uganda. Children’s HopeChest now manages individual and church partnerships with over 70 locations worldwide and provides care to over 10,000 orphans.

Who We Partner With

We partner primarily with U.S. churches and Christian communities such as blogs, online groups, book clubs, and small groups. HopeChest believes in the power of one community of believers making a long-term, transformative impact on a community of orphans. Through our Connect Communities, we desire to forge new relationships amongst Christians who desire ministry opportunities with HopeChest, but lack a participating local community. HopeChest also welcomes the partnership of schools and businesses.

What We Believe

HopeChest was founded as and remains to this day an evangelical Christian organization. Our statement of faith affirms our core beliefs and doctrine. In practice, we believe strongly in putting faith into action as an expression of our faith in Jesus Christ. In the tradition of Matthew 25, we believe in demonstrating the power of the gospel by meeting earthly needs within a spiritual context and for an evangelical purpose. Our ministry is demonstrative, hands-on, and purposeful in our faith. We have been accused by some as too Christian, and by others as not Christian enough. It is our heart to incarnate the agape love of Jesus Christ to every orphan we minister to and, in doing so, bring them into wholeness in this world and eternal life for the world to come.