Homeless Children (Foundation for His Ministry)

We rescue abandoned infants, children and disabled from garbage dumps, streets and prisons of Mexico, providing food, loving homes, daycare, Christian education, vocational training, medical care for over 40 years.

Why do we exist?

This ministry began when two ordinary people – a fireman and a housewife -  responded to a need, obeying the command of Jesus in the scriptures “…when you have done it unto the least of these, you have done it unto Me.” (Matthew 25:45).  Today, after more than 40 years, the same principles that undergirded this couple at the beginning are still in place: daily prayer, humble service, and financial integrity.  150 missionaries – both Mexican nationals and individuals from the U.S. and Canada – serve at these missions as house parents, nurses or providing construction, maintenance, and outreach.  The focus of the ministry are poor needy children – some do not have parents, others have a parent who is not able to care for them.  All are in need of food, clothing, shelter … and love.

What have you accomplished?

We have three orphanages providing homes for 150 needy children in three states in Mexico: Baja California, Michoacán and Oaxaca.  We also have supporting ministries which help the poor in the surrounding communities including a medical clinic where visiting physicians, dentists and surgeons provide life saving and life changing procedures, such as cataract surgery and cleft palate and cleft lip repairs.  All children who live in our Missions may consider it their home for life, if needed. 

We provide a home, food, clothing and education, and have supported many of our children to go on to get a college or technical school education.  We have a home for college and university students in Tijuana that houses up to 22 young people.  Some of our children have become pastors, dentists, nurses, missionaries, and involved in international relations.  We also have a Bible Institute that offers a two-year program preparing students for missionary and pastoral careers. 

Our outreach programs give food, clothing and spiritual encouragement to thousands each year. There is also a ministry to the disabled providing wheel chairs, equipment, life skills training and spiritual encouragement. And there is a day care center where 30 preschool children receive a bath, two meals and education, while their single mothers work.  Without this ministry, these children would be left alone at home to fend for themselves.

In the 1980’s many hundreds of indigenous people were brought to the Baja from the mountain areas in southern Oaxaca to work in the tomato fields.  Many of these people, far from home and their own culture, became destitute. Some turned to alcohol and drugs, and became abusive to their children – leaving them utterly alone and in fear.  We have received many of these children, providing a home of peace and safety, and much more. 

We recently received seven siblings; their father had been killed, and the mother and oldest brother needed to work.  The father had not permitted any of the children to attend school.  Now, they all have a chance to have a better life.

A little girl was brought to us; she had burns all over her body from abusive parents. She was less than a year old.  She was nursed back to health by a loving couple at the Mission who take the sickest babies into their home. Over the past five years, this couple has cared for 27 babies with special needs such as cleft lip and cleft palates (these babies receive surgery but must attain a certain weight before this can happen, and it is a very difficult, painstaking process to feed them, taking hours each day), cystic fibrosis, spina bifida, parasites, malnutrition, and abuse (bruised, broken bones, burns, neglect).  They love and care for these babies until they are well and strong enough to be taken into the orphanage homes.

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