North Carolina ministry by Harvey

Submitted by chiuoan on Sat, 10/17/2009 - 1:41pm.

Global Outreach

Tom & Ann Harvey (WEC/Rainbows of Hope):

At present we are in about 15 countries worldwide. The Children in Crisis branch of the ministry is relatively new (started in 1996) and we have open doors to begin in 55 more countries in the coming years. We are based in South Carolina, but we train and send and bring teams to all our projects worldwide.

We reach out to children in crisis situations: Street Kids, Child Laborers, Abandoned Children, Sexually Exploited Children, AIDS Orphans and HIV Positive Children, Child Soldiers, Children of War, etc.

We reach out to these children through evangelism, meeting their needs in food and shelter and education and prayer. We aim always to work through local churches, or where there is no church, with local believers first. We provide training and missionary help.

We mostly see this through children and youth who are in crisis or at risk, coming to faith in Christ, becoming part of the body of Christ, churches forming where there was no church before, and seeing the healing of trauma, healing of wounds, and healing of soul to such an extent that many of these kids become healers and rescuers and evangelists themselves.

By always working through the church, we help to set up projects that can be duplicated in that particular culture. Other fellowships and churches are then able to set up similar projects (drop in centers, night shelters, vocational training centers) that bring the children into the church. Healing comes from the presence of the Lord and through worship and therapy, children’s lives are changed and churches are strengthened.

We so much have appreciated all the love and support and prayer that Mount Hope has been for us over the years. Presently our need is for projects to have firm foundations. We find ourselves in a position where we train new workers to work with traumatized children, and send them out. A few times a year, Tom will visit a new or emerging project, meet with the missionaries who are already in place, doing evangelism and church planting, and through them, get to know the most needy children, and their situations. We need protection in travel, good communication and likemindedness with local church leaders, and vision for the missionaries.

For more info on the Harveys, see www.AnswersTom.com. For info on Rainbows of Hope, see www.wec-int.org/rainbows.