JUNE 2023: Pastors Dominic and Charity started a bible study in their home. Not only did the bible study quickly grow in to a church of 60, they noticed a gaping community need – school age children milling around the streets during the day, many joining gangs and doing drugs, mainly because they had no money to attend a school.
DECEMBER 2023: Dominic and Charity launched the Child Healing Center, simply as a place for children to come into a safe environment, receive education, a daily lunch, and moral and spiritual direction. This was the beginning. A drop-in center for the street kids in the neighborhood.
JAN-JUNE 2024: Pastor Aaron was invited to visit Gorom Refugee Camp on the outskirts of Juba. This camp of 18,000 refugees are mainly Muslims from Khartoum and Darfur, fleeing civil war in Sudan. In response to the pleas of the women in the camp, the Foursquare churches in the area began to bring in food and pray for the sick. In June, 2024, Mama Miriam, the camp leader for women and children, visited our Child Healing Center in Juba and immediately offered to give Foursquare 60 of the war orphans from Sudan.
TODAY: There is a boys home (with Pastor Dominic as the director) and a girls home (with Bishop Charles as the director), with 66 total children, most of them war orphans from Gorom Refugee Camp, with a handful of orphans from the streets of Juba. Marysville Foursquare Church is the U.S. organization responsible for fundraising and budgeting - this means there is no overhead costs in the U.S. 100% of donations go directly to the Child Healing Center.
(The Child Healing Center is a registered NGO in South Sudan. Each child is has their identity and story verified by UNICEF, Committee for Refugee Affairs, and the government of South Sudan. 100% of every gift goes to The Child Healing Center.)
To give a one time gift to the Child Healing Center click
here and select South Sudan: Child Healing Center.
For questions about the Child Healing Center, or to inquire about a future trip to South Sudan contact
aaron@m4church.com
