Our Vision

The vision of Arms of Love is to establish children’s homes in developing countries based on a family model, connect those homes with local churches in each country, and equip nationals to conduct the ministry.

• Arms of Love establishes children’s homes based on a family model, where resident “houseparents” care for children with the assistance of support staff.
• Arms of Love receives children who have been permanently separated from their parents as a result of death, abandonment, and/or serious abuse.
• Arms of Love strives to meet each child’s specific physical, psychological, educational, emotional, and spiritual needs.
• Arms of Love maximizes the impact it has on the life of each child by focusing on the quality of care rather than the number of children it serves.
• Arms of Love develops each children’s home as a ministry of the local church to its own community. Each home is connected with a local church and is staffed by people who live in the surrounding community.
• Through short-term teams, long-term volunteers, and child sponsorships, Arms of Love seeks to promote local church-based missions, strengthen the worldwide body of Christ, help Christians develop a broader worldview, and stir people’s hearts toward greater involvement in missions and compassion ministry.
• Arms of Love encourages each project to work toward financial self-sufficiency, which may be accomplished through farming, other local micro-enterprise, local sources of support, and income from hosting short-term teams.

Our Values

Our foremost desire is to glorify God by demonstrating His compassion, mercy, and justice toward, and on behalf of, the children who are entrusted to our care.

We believe that:

Each child should have the opportunity to fully develop his or her gifts and fulfill the calling God has placed on his or her life.  Therefore:

• We help the children value themselves according to God’s love for them rather than valuing themselves according to how other people have treated them.
• We help the children discover their God-given gifts and talents, and inspire them to use those gifts to serve others and to serve Christ.
• We help each child recognize and realize the calling God has placed on his or her life by providing the education, vocational and other training that a child needs to fulfill his or her calling and become a self-sufficient member of his community.

Ministry to children at risk is most effective when it identifies and addresses each child’s unique physical, psychological, educational, emotional, and spiritual needs.  Therefore:

• We seek to meet each child’s nutritional and other physical needs to ensure his proper physiological growth and development.
• We employ professional psychologists and social workers to develop and implement individualized care plans for each child.
• We enroll the children in local private schools and employ teachers to individually tutor the children so they receive the best possible education.
• We maintain a very high staff-to-child ratio so that each child receives the love and attention that they previously lacked, which is necessary for their emotional healing and further emotional development.
• We provide a Christian environment for the children and encourage their spiritual development in a way that provides them with hope for the future, a desire to fulfill their potential in life, and a heart for ministering to the needs of others.

Each child is entitled to certain basic human rights, which include the right to life; the right to protection against all forms of violence, abuse, and exploitation; and the right to a standard of living adequate for the child’s physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development.  Therefore:

• We provide the children with a place of refuge - a place where the children feel safe, loved, and accepted, even by those who know their background.
• We serve as advocates for the children, always seeking to advance their best interests when interacting with the government and the community.
• We seek to help the children heal from the acts which have been committed against them and accept responsibility for the acts they have committed against others.
• We seek to provide the highest standard of care to meet the children’s physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and social needs.

Our desire is to develop each project as a ministry of the local church to its own community and maximize the long-term impact of the project. Therefore:

• We train, equip, and empower the local church and other nationals to develop, oversee, and grow the ministry.
• We provide the children with a family environment in which to grow and mature, where they are cared for by Christians of their own culture and background serving in the parental role.
• We seek to reintegrate the children into their own community rather than placing the children for adoption internationally.

Our desire is to encourage local church-based mission in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations. Therefore:

• Arms of Love is supported by a network of churches who have partnered together in support of our ministry.
• We encourage churches to become involved in the Arms of Love ministry, not only through financial support, but by sending short-term teams and other volunteer personnel.
• We seek to increase the vision, passion, and commitment of Christians to care for the poor, at home and abroad, as a natural and necessary response to having received and experienced God’s compassion, mercy, and justice in their own lives.