Working with Buckner International

  • To carry out our mission, we collaborate with Buckner International, a global Christian ministry based in Dallas, Texas, that seeks justice for ‘the least of these’ by providing care and resources for orphans and at-risk children in the United States and more than 50 countries around the world. Through international orphanage support, humanitarian aid, short-term missions, foster care and adoption, Buckner has made a lasting impact in some of the world’s most poverty-stricken and socially desperate countries. For more than 128 years, Buckner has been a progressive leader in the movement towards justice for orphans and widows. Today, Buckner works in an advisory role with many international governments to educate leaders on children’s issues and create new legislation ensuring lasting changes for at-risk children. Buckner also challenges Christians everywhere to go on mission in support of children, be a significant change agent in their lives, and do more personally on behalf of orphans and at-risk children. 
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Who We Are

Go Therefore Orphan Ministry is committed to providing the spiritual and physical needs of orphaned children throughout the world by living out the Good News of the gospel according to James 1:27, "Pure and faultless religion is this...to look after orphans and widows in their distress."

 

A Call to Serve Children

Tim and Theresa Oloffson , Founders
Go Therefore Orphan Ministry

 

What started as a mission trip to a faraway country has ended up being a call on our lives. Go Therefore Orphan Ministry is a call to provide both the physical and spiritual needs of orphans throughout the world and, specifically, Romania.

 

The needs are great, but so is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It is the power of the Holy Spirit that we will rely on to minister to these precious children. The Bible mentions how we are to take care of orphans more than 60 times.

 

James 1:27 says, "Pure and faultless religion is this...to look after orphans and widows in their distress,” while Matthew 28:19 says, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

 

The combination of James 1:27 and Matthew 28:19 have motivated us to live a life that provides HOPE and LOVE to orphaned children. Go Therefore Orphan Ministry will move forward with these two verses as our inspiration to provide the hope that God’s children all over the world deserve.

 

To help us in our quest to provide more for children, we’ve teamed up with Buckner International, a global Christian ministry that seeks justice for ‘the least of these’ by providing care and resources for orphans and at-risk children in the United States and more than 50 countries around the world.

 

They’ve been providing mission trips, orphanage support and humanitarian aid in Romania since 1997 and, with their help, we hope to support Romanian orphanages by providing the necessary funds to create a Buckner Transitional Program that will be a bridge between residential care and independent life for these precious children.

 

While Go Therefore is our call to serve, I invite you to make it yours, too. We offer other ways for you to help, including raising humanitarian aid through Shoes for Orphan Souls, going on short-term missions with us and connecting with children on their birthdays.