+ NEW OFLC MISSION PARTNER ETHIOPIA, AFRICA

Children’s HopeChest Mission

With great excitement and anticipation, the leadership and staff at OFLC want to introduce you to our new mission partner, Children's HopeChest. This is a unique mission partner that all can personally engage. At Children’s HopeChest, they empower orphaned and impoverished children and their communities, called a CarePoint, through relationships that cultivate holistic transformation and sustainability. Their unique Community-to-Community model connects communities in the U.S. to this CarePoint with a high population of orphaned and impoverished children. The community OFLC will connect with is in Modjo, Ethiopia.

Aligned Mission & Values

Our Mission at OFLC, is to help ordinary people, know and share extraordinary life in Christ. This mission is not confined to our campus or locally, but globally. Ethiopia was chosen due to the amazing mission work of the Ethiopian Evangelical Lutheran church, which currently is the largest Lutheran denomination in the world. In addition, HopeChest as an organization aligns with our values, as they provide holistic redemptive compassion. 

OFLC members will personally be given the privilege, through their prayer and finances, to sponsor a child and their family in this CarePoint. The local Lutheran church also partners with HopeChest in sharing the Gospel and connect the family to a local church. Simply put, OFLC members are not just sending money to a town in Ethiopia, we are helping transform that community so that they can one day be self-sufficient, and then help another local community experience the same transformative care they themselves have received. As that takes place, we will join them in praying for spiritual transformation as well, as the local church responds to their spiritual needs.

CarePoint in Modjo, Ethiopia

When we open our launch day on May 4, you will learn more about Our Father's CarePoint in Modjo, Ethiopia. This is the community where we will directly engage with local leaders and orphans of this community, inspired by Christ's love, to empower vulnerable children and their families to break the cycle of poverty and create sustainable, thriving communities, starting with the children.

Upcoming Key Dates

As we lead into this new partnership, here are some important event dates.

+ OFLC Launch Day May 4
+ CarePoint (Modjo, Ethiopia) Opens May 17
+ Sponsor Reveal Sunday at OFLC June 22