New Life at El Espino

A number of teenage guys from El Espino detention center in El Salvador found new life in Jesus Christ in December 2011. See some of the pictures below from before, during, and after their baptisms!

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Tags: baptism, salvation

Mission Team Camping Out in Genesis

On January 8, 2012, Mission Team ministry started conducting a camp in Genesis for 22 days. Mission Team is a local ministry that helps form missionaries. The team consists of 15 young people in total, 4 girls and 11 boys. They actually set up camp within the grounds of Genesis and are staying in the orange building to help renovate and clean the facility and land. Some of the activities they are participating in include:

• Various jobs on the Genesis campus for 8 hrs/day (cleaning bathrooms, cutting grass with machetes, cleaning the kitchen, etc)
• Evangelistic ministry within IHNFA government centers
• Evangelism around the Genesis Center

The Orphan Helpers team developed spiritual activities for Mission Team to participate in at Genesis during their stay including devotionals, teaching, and fellowship. Mission Team covered all their expenses in full to perform this ministry and are full in spirit to be there helping out. What a blessing!

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Tags: camping, facility, IHNFA, Mission Team, missionaries, renovate

The Delight Your Donations Bring!

Thank you to all the donors and supporters of Orphan Helpers for continuously donating items to us. The many donations, such as the clothing, hygiene products, shoes, food, diapers, and medical supplies pictured below, are sent directly to the children in-country and put to great use. Below, you will see the delight your donations have brought to the young women and children living in our Mujeres Adolescentes Orphanage. You are blessing and making a difference in the lives of many!

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(Special shout-out to Amanda Forasteros’s mission team from Beavercreek Church of the Nazarene for donating the apples and some of the other items pictured!)

Tags: Beavercreek, donation, gift, give

Spring of Water Welling up to Eternal Life

Recently, the water well at the Genesis Center was cleaned and restored with a new pump and motor. The well will provide water to the three nearby centers: El Carmen, Nueva Esperanza and Genesis. In the coming days, we will carefully review the tanks at El Carmen and Nueva Esperanza to achieve better performance and also change the wiring of the well.

Check out the below pictures of progress being made at the well at Genesis in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

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In John 4, Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at the well, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Tags: Jesus, John 4, tanks, water, well

Celebrating Gerson’s Graduation!

In February 2011, Gerson José Cruz Améndola initiated the first year of his college preparatory classes for a Bachelor of Science and Art. Then, on December 17, 2011 at the IHER school facilities, Gerson finally graduated from high school! Orphan Helpers staff member, Hareld, was Gerson’s primary educator and mentor throughout his studies.

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Gerson was born in Villa Nueva, Cortés on June 7, 1992. He is now 19 years old. Please read is his touching testimony:

“Because I was an accomplice to a felony, I was sent to Orphan Helpers’ pedagogical center, El Carmen, located in San Pedro Sula. I came to El Carmen on November 12, 2009. Since that time, God began to help me in a very special way. The day after I was placed in my module at El Carmen, I attended our devotional where the pastor made the call to accept Christ as the savior of my life. It was then that I fell at the feet of Christ. There after, God used me to preach to other youth and Bible study.

Tags: Bible Study, degree, education, graduation, halway home, mentor

Thank You for Supporting Orphan Helpers

Because of you, we are able to reach thousands of children with the love of Christ. Here is a very short video clip of the girls we helped from the Hope House in El Salvador saying “Thank You Orphan Helpers!” Even though we recently closed this halfway home (7/31/2011), the teenage girls left the house transformed by the love of Christ. You helped make this possible!

Thank You Orphan Helpers from Orphan Helpers on Vimeo.

Tags: El Salvador, Hope House, Thank You

¡Feliz Navidad!

“To YOU the helpless commits himself;
you have been the helper of the fatherless.” Psalm 10:14

Over 1,500 children in Central America have committed themselves to you.
You have truly exemplified the meaning of this Christmas season through your selfless love and service. Thank you for partnering with us in this ministry.
Merry Christmas!
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Tags: Central America, fatherless, helper, Merry Christmas, Psalm

Christmas Cheer

In each center where Orphan Helpers works, we are starting to celebrate Christmas with each one. Our staff provide a small snack and celebration and present the children with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Here are some pictures of the children at 21st of October orphanage in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

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Tags: celebration, Christmas, Jesus Christ, snack

Horticulture Project

The CISNA (boys) orphanage in Soypango, El Salvador has recently engaged in a new Horticulture Project.  Orphan Helpers strives to instill useful vocational training in each orphan to contribute to later success in their lives.  This project offered useful training in horticulture.

The project was initiated with the selection of the land to create the nursery.   For selection of the land, Engineer Mario Castro and executor of the plantation, Ricardo Antonio Ticas were consulted.  Once the land was decided upon, Engineer Mario Castro directly supervised ten young boys from the orphanage.  The ten boys that participated in the gardening project were orphans Genaro Lara, Jonathan Cruz, Jose Simon Duran, David Acajabon, Kony Orellana, Armando, Brayan Caceres, Manuel Alfonso, Julio Ayala, and Franklin Tomasino.

Tags: garden, harvest, horticulture, land, seed

So Proud of our Graduates!

Every November, graduations are held at many of our centers. On November 30th, at Casitas Kennedy orphanage, we celebrated our kids who graduated from their grade in basic education classes or from vocation training classes. Please join us in praising God for their successes!

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Tags: graduations, school, success