PROJECT #222
Building a Home
for At-Risk Children
Dear Friend of World Mission,
The Santiago Partnership is a home for at-risk children established in 2012 by Covenant missionaries, Joel and Kim
Delp, in partnership with the Covenant Church of Ecuador (IPEE). Santiago means Saint James in Spanish, and it was
from the book of James that the IPEE found its inspiration for this partnership. James implored the church to “look
after orphans and widows in their distress” (1:27, NIV).
The mission of the Santiago Partnership is to care for court-appointed children who come from situations of
abandonment, abuse, or otherwise broken homes, and those freed from human trafficking or forced labor. Once fully
staffed, the home will employ a psychologist, social worker, and a lawyer who will be working with each child and their
family. The home will provide for the children’s spiritual, social, emotional, mental, physical, and justice needs, while at
the same time working with families toward the goals of transformation and eventual reunification when possible.
Construction on the first of two homes is well underway and, when completed, each home will provide care for up to
eight children. A medical clinic within the home will provide much needed care not only for the children, but also for
members in the local community who may otherwise not have been able to afford or have access to medical and dental
care.
FOWM Project #222 seeks to raise $40,000 to complete the home by the end of 2015 and provide start-up funds for
the second community-based home. Your gift will provide stability for many children growing up in desperate and often
dangerous situations. Please give generously and support the Santiago Partnership as they work to transform young
lives.
In Christ,
Curtis D. Peterson, executive minister of serve globally
Thank you for
your prayers and
financial support.
PAYMENT INFO
Thank you for your prayers and financial
support. Please make checks payable to the
Evangelical Covenant Church, designated
FOWM. See reverse side for more giving
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TESTIMONIES
BUILDING A HOME FOR AT-RISK CHILDREN…
Pastor José is the pastor of Iglesia Imanuel, the church that the Santiago Project is partnering with in the
construction of the first home. Recently, he became aware of a family with newborn twins. When he went to visit
them, he was shocked by the conditions they were living in. The newborns were sleeping on the dirt floor with a
thin blanket, because the family had nothing else. Pastor José reflected that most animals live and sleep in better
conditions than where these newborn babies were. Pastor José said, “We need help!” IPEE does not yet have the
resources to support a family like this, but when the clinic and the home are up and running, their goal is to have
more resources available to aid a family in this kind of situation.
The need for this home is great and the community is excited for the hope these new walls will provide for so
many children. Already the local Covenant churches have held multiple mingas, or
workdays where many people come together and provide the labor
needed. Kim Delp, Covenant missionary, was extremely touched
one morning as they arrived to the construction site to see local
women wearing their babies on their backs as they carried
many pounds of dirt, bricks, and rocks preparing to lay the
cement floors. You may not be able to carry the rocks
with those women, but you can walk alongside them
by generously supporting FOWM #222.
FIFTY YEARS OF FOWM...
We celebrate fifty years of Friends of World Mission, and stand in amazement at how God has used our gifts
to impact so many in the world. In 1978 FOWM launched its fifty-third project to help support the China
Evangelical Seminary in Taipei, Taiwan, in response to a quickly growing church that needed better trained
pastors. The ECC was a charter member and provided the school with a missionary residence. In 1976,
China Evangelical Seminary (CES) built a seven-story building with classrooms, dormitories, library, chapel,
offices, and a dining hall. FOWM helped to support the building of this seminary that is still used today to
help train influential Taiwanese church leaders like Pastor Nathen Chang.
Pastor Chang was a young seminary student at CES when he was invited to speak at a newly formed
Hsintien Covenant Church in the late seventies. After graduation from CES, he was invited to serve as their
senior pastor. The church has steadily grown over the past forty years becoming the largest Covenant church
in Taiwan, averaging 3,000 in attendance by 2010. The church has started more than 25 branch churches
in Taiwan and has ministered to the poor and needy in both Taiwan and mainland China through their
New Hope Foundation. Pastor Chang became a regular and beloved speaker on both radio and Taiwanese
television. He has even given back to the school by serving as a visiting professor and impacting the next
generation of Taiwan’s pastoral leaders.
Your regular gift to FOWM projects really makes a difference. You can also endow your annual support through your estate plan. Contact our
partners at Covenant Trust Company, (800) 483-2177, to learn more. To make your gift today, please fill out and return the bottom portion of
this letter in the enclosed return envelope, or mail to: The Evangelical Covenant Church, Attn: Friends of World Mission, 8303 W. Higgins Rd.,
Chicago, IL 60631. For more information, visit CovChurch.org/fowm.
YES! I want to help through Friends of World Mission.
I will give generously to the the Santiago Partnership.
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WAYS TO GIVE...
• Give online at CovChurch.org/donate
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• Monthly donations at CovChurch.org
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