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Introducing Latreia International:
Extending Hope to the Ends of the Earth

The orphan ministry of Baptist Children's Home and Family Services has spanned nearly a century beginning with the founding of the Baptist Orphanage in 1918. Throughout the years, we have provided Christ-centered services to those in your Jerusalem, Judea and in Samaria. Beginning in 2012, BCHFS will go to the Ends of the Earth…and YOU are invited to come along and take part in the new program we call Latreia International!

BCHFS has begun a partnership with Arise Africa International and their Bukaleba Babies' Home, located in Bukaleba, Uganda. The orphanage is a relatively new facility which provides a home to over 50 children, age birth to 6.

In 2012, as part of this new orphan ministry, BCHFS will begin hosting bi-annual mission trips to the Bukaleba Babies' Home. YOU are needed to help us share the love and hope of Jesus Christ by ministering to the spiritual and physical needs of these precious children!
Click here to download/view the Latreia International Application Form.

2012 Uganda Mission Trips (Approximate Cost - $3,000)

• March 14-25 Mission Trip:
  Led by Carla Donoho Director of Angels' Cove
  During the March mission trip, BCHFS missionaries will have the opportunities
  to serve in the following capacities:
  • Vacation Bible School
  • Painting the New School Building
  • Hut-to-Hut Evangelism
  • Preaching in local Churches
• August 1-12 Mission Trip:
  Led by Doug Devore, BCHFS Executive Director
  Actual mission service projects are TBD for this trip.

Note: It is necessary to have a Yellow Fever immunization to travel to Uganda. It is recommended to have: Typhoid, updated Tetanus and anti Malaria medication. It is also strongly recommended that missionaries have all of their routine immunizations up to date before traveling.

Note: The maximum number of people we can take with us is 15 people,
and our traveling missionaries must be at least 12 years of age.

Tentative Trip Itinerary (typical schedule)-
Actual itinerary may vary depending on flight schedules.

• Day 1 – Fly out of St. Louis
• Day 2 – Arrive in Entebbe, Uganda, stay in Kampala
• Day 3 – Travel to Bukaleba, meet staff and children
• Day 4 – Work at Babies' Home
• Day 5 – Attend church and work at the Babies' Home
• Day 6 – Work at the Babies' Home
• Day 7 – Work at the Babies Home
• Day 8 – Travel to Murchison Falls National Park
• Day 9 – Safari and Nile Cruise
• Day 10 – Travel to Kampala, see falls or visit Rhino Sanctuary
• Day 11 – Shopping day/ fly out of Entebbe in the evening
• Day 12 – Arrive in St. Louis

Contact Baptist Children's Home and Family Services to learn more about this exciting new venture. Your prayers and financial assistance will allow us to positively affect the spiritual and physical needs of these kids. You may contact our office at (618) 382-4164 to learn more or click here to view the Application Form.

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Latreia International
A partnership between Arise Africa International and BCHFS

• March 14-25, 2012
  Mission Trip
  Led by:
  Carla Donoho
  Director of
  Angels’ Cove
  email Carla
  
  
• August 1-12, 2012
  Mission Trip
  Led by:
  Doug Devore
  BCHFS Executive
  Director
  email Doug
  
  
• Download Mission Application Form
  
  
• View video from our Fall 2011 Informational Trip to Bukaleba Babies Home

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

- James 1:27