World Orphans was founded in 1993 to help churches care for street kids in Nicaragua. Since then our model has changed and evolved as we’ve learned about the orphan crisis and its causes around the world. Currently we operate in 9 countries including Guatemala, Ethiopia, and South Africa where Castle Oaks is partnered with Christian Life Centre church.
Our primary focus is to equip churches to be able to empower and preserve vulnerable families and children. While we do have some legacy projects that continue operating our current model can be summed up in two key areas, Family Preservation, and Church Partnership. Our Family Preservation, or HBC program (home based care), provides physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and economic empowerment opportunities for families experiencing extreme poverty and brokenness. The HBC ministry is carried out by a committee of volunteers from the local international church. Each local church is partnered with a US church who’s primary responsibility is to encourage them, build relationship with them, visit them, and provide funding for the church to execute the program in their community. In this way Church Partnership is the primary way for us to provide wholistic care to the vulnerable families in each of the HBC ministries.
Castle Oaks has been an incredible supporter of World Orphans over the years through the partnership with Christian Life Centre, supporting WO staff members, and hosting Aaron Boyd, who visits annually during the WO Worship and Justice tour. There are additional opportunities to explore World Orphans by taking a trip with us to South Africa or somewhere else in the world we are at work, participating in Worship and Justice home shows, and supporting our collaborative efforts with Wellspring at the Castle Rock Collective where products made by artisans from the international churches we work with are for sale.
Contact Info: Feel free to reach out to Chris Turpaud or Chris Schneider if you have a desire to learn more about what it is that we do. We have both been long time attendees of Castle Oaks and love our community and our work with World Orphans!
