UPDATE 1/1/2025
These children are still going hungry.
They have shelter now, BUT very few have donated (on here or reaching out to me personally) the past few months.
PLEASE consider starting this new year by giving to feed these dear ones.
Myself and a few others are doing the best we can, but this is bigger than us alone.
UPDATE 9/4/2024
The children have temporary safe housing, BUT there is not enough food!
Two small private donations have been offered, plus the few hundred we have raised here on gofundme, and I have exhausted my own resources, but otherwise the children are going hungry. Please consider giving
8/27/2024 UPDATE: PLEASE SHARE!
Sam and his 110 children were in hiding until another pastor, two days ago, offered temporary safe housing. They are safe for now, but we are still in desperate need of food!
Once the children were safe, Pastor Sam surrendered himself to the authorities. His wife, Sharon was released. Sharon subsequently sold their furniture in order to pay for Sam's bail....Sam is free for now, and busy again trying to solve this tragedy, or at the very least to find food, and permanent shelter for his children until hopefully they can all be returned home.
DESPERATE NEED
110 orphans in danger of being returned to the
perilous streets of Kenya.
$13,580 is needed to keep them safe for the next 6 months, until hopefully a way will be found to bring them back home.
8/27/2024 UPDATE:
Sam and his 110 children were in hiding until another pastor, two days ago, offered temporary safe housing. They are safe for now, but we are still in desperate need of food!
Once the children were safe, Pastor Sam surrendered himself to the authorities. His wife, Sharon was released. Sharon subsequently sold their furniture in order to pay for Sam's bail....Sam is free for now, and busy again trying to solve this tragedy, or at the very least to find food, and permanent shelter for his children until hopefully they can all be returned home.
ORIGINAL POST:
Blessings Hope Center is the only home many of these children have ever known. Pastor Sam is the only father they have known. (Sam rescued them from the streets, where they were abandoned.)
It is a huge challenge to feed, shelter, clothe, and educate 100s of children. But for 13 years Pastor Sam and his team have faithfully worked day in and day out, to give these children a home that they so desperately need.
BUT NOW, due to some great financial difficulties (a "trusted" person fled the country leaving a financial mess in Sam’s lap), and because of one heartless government official, the school has been closed, with the promise of jail for Pastor Sam until a debt not belonging to him is paid.
Here in the states, we have been scrambling to raise money to help. But because we came up a few hundred dollars short of the deadline, the school was closed without compassion for the children, and with no mercy for Pastor Sam.
Sam has been desperately trying to find temporary housing for the children, before he turns himself in to the authorities. The youngest of the children have been placed in various homes.
110 children between the ages of 9 and 13 still have no place to go. Another orphanage school has offered to take them IF we can pay the initial registration fee of $1,580, and then $2,000/mo thereafter.
There is no government help for children in Kenya. In fact just the opposite, these dear children are often treated as garbage to be left on the streets.
I hope you will find it in your heart to help us protect these children from their hearts being broken once again, and from being returned to the streets, and the dangers that await them there.
NOTES:
**While Sam is toiling night and day to try and find safe housing for his children, authorities picked up his wife Sharon and are holding her in prison, to make sure that Sam surrenders himself when the children are safe.
**The 110 children have been in hiding, and not eaten for several days - we were able get food to them today.
** EVERY Penny counts......$1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100
It all adds up. Working together! we can reach this seemingly impossible goal.
Thank you!
To learn More About Blessing Hopes Center, visit this link.
https://www.connieruthchristiansen.com/africanchildoutreach
The link will also tell you more about me (Connie), and about how I came to meet Pastor Sam and his many children.
Feel free to email me (Connie) your questions or concerns, via the link provided here on gofundme, or via the link on my website.
Blessings!
~Connie
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