The Home of Innocence
The Home of Innocence will be a transitional home in which we will bring children in off the streets, through the feeding program run by ANLM, and for 6 months to one year we will provide medical care for them, love on them, pray over them, counsel, train, and prepare them for life in a permanent family. At the same time as we are ministering to these children we will, in partnership with ERM, be loving, training, counseling, and preparing a widow to become this ex-street child's parent. When both the widow and orphan are ready to become a family we will then facilitate an adoption. After the adoption is complete, we will continue to provide support as needed to insure these new families succeed in every way. We foresee this home being able to house up to 10 children at a time and will allow us to continue to do all that we can to work towards our goal of someday seeing that every child has a home.
The story behind the name?
One of the first children brought into the Kanombe Children's Home was named Innocent. Like many of the children on the streets Innocent was sick. After being in the home a little while he became very sick and we had to take him to the hospital. Unfortunately Innocent did not recover. But we praise God that Innocent died in a hospital bed knowing that he had a family that loved him, knowing that his heavenly father was waiting for him and that he would be missed. That was a tough few weeks while Innocent was sick, and a very tough day when he died, but when I think of the alternative, the what if we had not started the Kanombe Children's Home? I rejoice that we obeyed the calling of God. I know that if we had not, Innocent would have died on the street with no one knowing his name or caring that he lived or died. He would not have known that he had a heavenly father that loved him and a savior that died for him. He would not have had a family that would miss him and believe me when I say that we do.
