HOPE Home Ministry Inc.
HOPE Home Ministry Inc. is a 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 children 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 & MINISTRY
We recently purchased a home for the girls! It has a large yard and plenty of space. 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.
Our Team
Anne
Leading our home since its beginning in May 2023 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!
Frank
Francis (Frank) married Anne in November 2025 and became a member of the HOPE Home family! Frank is a firm believer of Jesus Christ. And because of his love for Jesus, he has a passion for helping youth and children. It breaks his heart to see children struggle to have a meal, get basic education, and later struggle with addiction. "I see it as divine intervention to have met my wife Anne who has the same passion, and now I get to be a part of HOPE Home with her. My dream is to see children and families know the truth and be set free."
Bruce & Amber
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.
Lara
HOPE Home board member, Lara, has a passion for providing care and resources to children who have suffered trauma and encountered loss, more specifically those who no longer have family. Lara and her husband spent 15 years as foster care parents in West Virginia. During that time, they loved on over 36 children who came through their home. Their family includes 3 biological and 5 adopted children. Over the past year, God called them to serve in a different capacity and led Lara and her husband to join the faculty of Liberty University. As a Biology professor, Lara is now blessed to mentor, teach, and share the intricacies of God’s creation with the next generation of Christian scientists. “Leaving behind the ministry of foster care left a yearning that being a part of HOPE Home Ministries has filled.”, Lara said. Although not intimately tied to Africa, she serves with passion as she watches the girls flourish with the love and care they receive and is excited to be a part of the growth of this ministry!
Kelly
HOPE Home board member, Kelly, loves God's Word. Her life has purpose, direction and joy because people who cared told her the good news of Jesus' great love. Since becoming a Christian at a young age, Kelly has had the privilege to be called wife and mother. Along life's journey, there have been many joy-filled experiences including adoption. At times, life has also presented some faith-testing experiences, but Kelly has found the motivation to keep moving forward by returning to Scripture, delighting in the reminder that God remains in control and desires her always to trust him more than her eyes can see. Kelly came to know HOPE Home through founders Bruce and Amber. "My goal in being a part of the work at HOPE Home is to follow in their footsteps and of those who made a difference in my life through prayer, encouragement, generosity and pointing to Jesus."
