Church Alliance Partnership
We are working to build relationships with churches to serve their local comm unity and the children of Operation Orphan Rescue by getting the church members passionate about discipleship and serving people.
Together with the church, we collect items to furnish homes as part of Operation Orphan Rescue, provide serving and discipleship training for the benefit of short term missions to Operation Orphan Rescue sites, organize food packing events, and in return the church members are energized to do the same in their local community.
In the alliance, Change a Life Foundation supports the church in these areas:
• Food packing events (twice annually preferably)
• Short-term missions trips
• Serving and discipleship programs
• Empowering your members to serve and disciple the children and the people in the village
It’s about the Orphans
Financial contributions are greatly appreciated and accepted in association with the Church Alliance, but our true goals are to obtain the needed items for homes, work together on food-packing events, and to create an ongoing relationship between the church and the children.
By collecting the items to furnish the children’s homes together, the church family “adopts” the children within a specific home enabling them to build direct relationships with them. Often this fellowship leads to a desire to become a part of the mission work, and so the food packing events benefit the children and local church by helping facilitate and pay for the short term missions teams.
In many of the countries we serve, unstable economies make the purchase of the goods far more expensive than items are in the United States which means that there is more value in purchasing items in the U.S. and shipping them to the homes.
Short Term Missions Trips
As a part of being a Church Alliance Partner there are several opportunities throughout the year for your church to go visit the Operation Orphan Rescue Village your sponsoring. Each trip usually lasts 7 to 10 days and often times your team will get to participate in the following:
- Bible Teaching
- Bible Planting
- Jesus Film Project through Campus Crusade for Christ
- Food distribution
- Construction
- Friendship Evangelism
- Sharing your testimony at the church planted next to each Operation Orphan Rescue Village
Food Packing Events
One of the most exciting aspects of becoming a Church Alliance Partner is getting involved with the Food Packing events in your community. These food packing events are sponsored by you the Church Alliance Partner as an outreach event designed for your entire community.
Here are just a few ways a food packing event touches your community while also feeding the vulnerable orphans at the Operation Orphan Rescue Village:
- Involve your local fire station, food kitchens, Chamber of Commerce, local corporations, etc. etc. to donate and participate in the annual food packing event (Potentially donate up to 20% to local food kitchens and or hold for regional emergencies or disasters in your local community)
- Build a donor list of potential major gift donors who currently are not in your church to share the vision
- Notify your local radio stations about your food packing events and how they can donate to the event.
- Put on a benefit concert with a percentage of the ticket sales going towards your churches orphan ministry
- Form a fundraising committee to come up with fundraising ideas that are centric to your community and line up with the giftings of your church members
- Launch a t-shirt campaign to raise for the food packing events and short term missions trip (list local corporate sponsors on back of t-shirt as an idea)
Small Groups
Lastly, our Church Alliance Partnership involves implementing a 10 week discipleship program called “A Journey With Christ.” This curriculum is an option for the entire church to use and includes everyone from those who pray for your orphan ministry, people who give to the home physical needs of the orphans, participants in the food packing events, or those who sign up to go on one of the short term mission trips to the actual Operation Orphan Rescue Village.
Irregardless of your role in your churches orphan ministry we are all on the same journey with Christ. Therefore, it is imperative we encourage each other to prepare, maximize, and stick with the path Christ has set forth before us (Proverbs 3:5-6).
Please Join Us
It is because of you we are able to help these vulnerable children and widows build a future with hope for tomorrow and a life that aligns with the Word of God. We hope that you decide to join us, our mission, and continue to pray for these children and widows. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments either by phone: (918) 409-5997 or by email: blake@changealife.net or visit our website to read up to date information about all our programs: www.changealife.net.