HOPE Home Ministry Inc.
HOPE Home Ministry Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit established in the United States but working in the most vulnerable places. We have zero overhead with 100% of all support and donations going directly to our current home in Africa. Our dream and prayer is to open more homes for vulnerable girls in the most at-risk places around the world.
"No one whose hope is in You will ever be put to shame."
Psalm 25:3a
Mission
Our mission is to provide needy and vulnerable, school-aged girls with a safe and loving place to live where opportunities are given to help them realize their full potential in Christ. We desire for them to glorify Christ in their lives by helping them to discover their gifts, enabling them to provide for themselves and be productive within their community.
Our HOME
Our current home is in rural Kenya. Our ministry is focused on girls who can’t stay in school because of poverty or the loss of their parents. Girls in these situations are often faced with providing for themselves, most often through prostitution, but our ministry provides a safe and loving home, as well as necessities like clothing, food, education, and dental and medical care.
Our ministry is run like a home where the girls are cared for, loved, and cherished. They come home from school and are helped with homework, they gather around the table to share a meal every night, they do daily devotions and pray with one another, they play together every Saturday, and attend church together every Sunday. They also serve in various outreach activities through the church for the elderly and children in their community. They are a family.
Team
Anne
Leading our home is Anne, a wonderful young Kenyan woman who loves the girls like they are her own. The girls adore her and call her "Aunty Anne". She has personally experienced trauma and poverty just like our girls, but God has healed her and has empowered her to walk with others in the healing process that comes from knowing Jesus. She believes that when girls are taken care of, loved, and safe, they can change the world. She has lived in a male dominated society and has seen girls being taken advantage of. Girls have been considered of less importance than men and have less potential, and that is the narrative she is working to change with the help of Jesus!
Ministry co-founders with Anne are Bruce and Amber Althouse. They have served as missionaries for over 15 years, filling urgent/emergent needs in different areas around the world. After returning to Kenya several times to serve at Rift Valley Academy (a boarding school for missionary kids), they felt God was calling them to start HOPE Home Ministries and serve the most vulnerable in Kenya. HOPE Home Ministries was born in May 2023 when Bruce and Amber rented a small apartment for Anne and 3 girls. Less than a year later, God has provided a home for Anne and 11 beautiful girls! Bruce and Amber currently live and work in Pennsylvania and visit Kenya regularly. Bruce is a pastor and special education teacher, and Amber is a surgical technologist.
Bruce & Amber
Hope Home board member, Amy Oakley, has a heart for bringing meaningful change to the oppressed in Christ’s name. She has served as an ambassador for Mercy House Global and advocates for adoption and fair labor practices throughout the world. As Desmond Tutu stated, “There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” Working with Hope Home Ministries provides the opportunity to change the lives of the girls in Christ’s name and keep them from falling into the river. Amy is a wife and mother to four amazing boys. She has worked in project management for close to 20 years. She feels that her business knowledge and God-given passions make Hope Home Ministries an excellent place for her to use her gifts.
Amy Oakley
HOPE Home board member, Jan Hemphill, has a passion for Kenya that started ten years ago when her oldest son, Taylor, and his wife began serving at the Rift Valley Academy (RVA) in Kijabe, Kenya. Her son introduced her to Pastor John Karanja who started the Mutiini Church in the Rift Valley near Maai Mahui. When she became involved at the church she met Anne, and she helped her implement many programs at the church. Jan knew of Anne’s dream to help girls in the area who were struggling for various reasons, and later she was introduced to Amber who had the vision to come alongside Anne and start HOPE Home. Jan was born, raised, and still lives in North Carolina. She has been married to her husband, Rick, for 51 years, has six children who are all married, and has 22 grandchildren. She feels extremely grateful to the Lord who has blessed her family immensely! She taught kindergarten for 20 years and is now working part-time as an elementary librarian at a Christian school. Her faith and family are the most important parts of my life. She feels the Lord led her to Kenya and has continued to bless her so that through Him she can do His work.“I am very proud to be a part of HOPE home and watch the lives of these girls be changed forever.” - Jan
Jan Hemphill
