Mission:
To provide a loving christian family environment to traumatized children in El Salvador.
Vision:
To transform lives in El Salvador through the discipleship of children in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
What we do?
We seek to provide a safe loving christian home for children who have been abandoned and abused.
Healing Love Ministries SEEKS TO:
- Provide a safe and godly family environment where the children are loved and their rights are respected.
- Provide Christ Centered discipleship that would enable them to heal their hearts through the studying and living of the gospel.
- Walk together with the families in the healing process of the children’s heart by providing financial, spiritual, psychological and legal support.
- Provide the children opportunities to develop their gifts and abilities and become godly men and women.
- Encourage and Develop the culture of long term substitute families within the body of Christ in El Salvador.
How?
Working with local Salvadorian Christian churches to seek for Godly families that have the calling to serve as substitute families to intake these children in their own home. As they model what a family looks like, they use this opportunity to disciple the children in the gospel and point them to Jesus. Once the family has been trained and certified by the government, they become available to receive a child that has gone through early childhood trauma. Healing Love Ministries comes along side the certified substitute family to cover for the child’s food, clothing, education, health, transportation and most important their spiritual needs; teaching them to trust their lives to Jesus.
Why?
We are convinced that God designed the family structure for a reason and it has a deep effect on a person’s development into adulthood. The sinful nature in human kind has driven us away from God’s family design where instead of protecting the children, they are being abused and abandoned. When a person has gone through a trauma of abuse or abandonment in their early childhood, this can leave deep wounds that last for the rest of their life. We want to walk with these children and let them know that they are loved, not only by us but that the creator and savior of this world loves them!
When?
-In 2021: The Zepedas went through the training program given by the local Child Protection System (ISNA) to be certified as a Substitute Family.
-In 2022: The Zepedas received 3 children in their home throughout the year. The first placement was a pair of siblings ages 5 and 11 months. The second placement was a 23 days old baby.
-In 2023: We pray that more Christian Families will step up to the calling of becoming a safe refuge to abandoned/abused children in El Salvador.