At this time the primary purpose of RHM is to care for orphans, destitute children and widows, through Christ meeting their physical and spiritual needs. We're committed to help the children until they get settled in life, whether that be in ministry, family, job or whatever else the Lord may lead them into. The secondary purpose of RHM is to help poor ministers and ministries and fulfill their God-given call in life. Please read below for more understanding of the main purposes of Right Hand Ministries.
1. We currently are the primary support for an orphanage in southeast India called HOPE (visit the HOPE website for lots of info). HOPE began in 1998 and now has over 30 children. It also feeds 30 or more widows through what is called the HOPE Manna Program, some of more needy widows staying at the HOPE orphanage. Most children's homes or more like institutions helping needy children in some way until they reach a certain age, and they either get a job or are sent back to their native villages. HOPE is run as a family, and we're committed to the children as such. Pray about assisting us through your finances so that we can care for more orphans and widows, and help them to be all God would have them to be.
* A side note: If you are seeking the Lord about giving to an orphanage, you want to make sure that it is a true orphanage, as there are many organizations that call themselves an “orphanage” that are actually what is called a hostel. A hostel in India (this is probably also common in other nations) is a place where generally poor people send their children during the school year to get an education. A hostel may be funded privately or by the government, so the parents don’t have to pay anything for their children to stay there (many villages have no schools). Although it may be a commendable work, a hostel is by no means an orphanage, as the children usually have families that they return to on holidays and during the summer.
2. There are many gifted and God-fearing Christians in the small towns and villages of poorer nations, who have no “connections” with people from the western world or with the more wealthy believers of their own nation. For the most part the people in their congregations are very poor, so the offerings barely even support the local pastor and his family (often not doing that sufficiently). My friends, this is not an isolated problem found here and there; this is the norm in the poor villages and small towns of the world! As a result, there is little opportunity for these believers to further the Lord’s work through Gospel literature, showing Christian films, helping the orphans, widows or other poor. The average congregation, though faithful to serve Him, struggles to even have the funds to build or repair their thatched-roof church. This is one of the things that the Lord has laid upon our hearts, to be a channel of assistance for some of the many gifted believers who love the Lord, but who have no means to do all the things that they desire to do for His glory. Our desire at RHM is that the Great Shepherd, the One Who hears the cries of His servants, would divinely guide us to these servants whom He would want us to help. “The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in due time. You open Your Hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing” (Ps.145:15-16).
VISION:
To see multitudes of poor orphans, widows, ministers and ministries better equipped both financially and spiritually so that they can do and be all the Lord has created them to do and be. That each one would hear Him say "Well done, My good and faithful servant" on that final Day. And that the Body of Christ in the West would come to a greater understanding of their responsibility and opportunity to help our poor brothers and sisters fulfill the call of Jesus in their lives, having the same Spirit of love as the Macedonian churches in 2Corinthians 8:3-4: "For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord, begging us with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints."
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