R.U.4 Children

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Happy New Year!  We hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas.  It is hard to believe that 2012 is already here! RU4Children had an amazing year in 2011.  We celebrated 10 years of serving children around the world – thanks to our incredible partners and friends.  We feel so blessed to be surrounded [...]

When I was a young girl I met Trey McAlister and he had recently started a non-profit named RU4Children. Their mission was to help orphans in Ukraine.  I remember Trey telling me that if I was willing to sponsor an orphan, I had to make a year long commitment to that one child because I [...]

Despite all of the progress and hope we have seen, Haiti is far from where it should be. It is still a place full of turmoil, political unrest, famine, hunger, malnutrition, disease and death. According to Pastor Gerald Bataillie, “a lack of vision among leaders is one of the greatest things holding back progress. Haiti is still in a place of great change. Couple the corruption with the lack of education and Haiti finds itself in great need”.

But from my very first trip to Africa I told God that if someone asked me to do something, I would do it. If there was an opportunity to fill a need, I would fill it. With His grace and His help, it would happen because He sent ME. It’s a scary philosophy but it has birthed a new kind of boldness in me…

… Eight months later, I boarded another plane and I followed God’s directions all the way to Nairobi…

The need to provide clean water in Haiti has never been greater. Children are being hit the hardest from the recent Cholera outbreak, caused by contaminated drinking water. Once a child begins to show symptoms, the average time until death is 4 hours…

R.U.4 Children just returned from their FEED 5000 campaign in Guatemala. On this particular feeding trip, we fed and ministered the gospel to 8,000 people and and distributed 220,000 meals. We were working in the Pacific-coastal region of Esquitla, Guatemala in the city of Puerto San Jose; which was devastated by high rising flash floods. [...]

The following blog is from an R.U.4 Children team member, Jessica Morton. She gives a detailed account of her second trip in Haiti and the many activities we encountered on our latest trip.
Many of these kids have experienced loss from the earthquake and are in such great need physically, emotionally and spiritually.

The Children at the Delmas orphanage are all orphaned because of the devastating earthquake; these are children whose parents did not make it. In the hours and days after the earthquake, the children began to band together: they were alone, naked and starved