The Journey

Welcome!

Journey117 exists to equip influential orphan advocates through high impact Journey trips that offer informative teaching, practical experiences to serve cross culturally, and training to impact your personal advocacy for the sake of the orphan and widow.

This formative training experience progresses participants through a multi-dimensional equipping experience in orphan care and rescue. You will learn the Biblical foundation of God’s heart for the orphan, the history of orphan care through the ages, and the various approaches to rescuing the abandoned and orphaned. Your J117 "in-field experience" will immerse you in the following ministry experience:

While on your Journey, you will…

Experience first-hand various indigenous serving points relevant to widows and orphans such as battered women’s shelter, feeding programs, and at-risk youth drop-in centers.

Experience orphaning and abandonment issues first hand. Seeing kids in the streets, the slums, hospitals, garbage dumps, and red-light districts.

Visit and learn about existing Christian, secular, and governmental approaches to orphan care. Experience child-headed households, government/secular/Christian institutional orphanages and children’s villages.

Celebrate and experience the orphan care solution: The indigenous Church. Engage with Churches helping to prevent and delay orphaning, raising orphans in family-style homes, and learn how the church is helping to transition these children to adulthood.

By joining us on one of our Journey117 trips you will be better equipped to serve the orphan and widow in one or more of the following capacities:

• Joining World Orphans as a formal advocate
• Advocating informally for World Orphans in their sphere of influence
• Joining or influencing other orphan and missions organizations
• Advocating at your church
• Joining another church on staff and influence for the sake of the orphaned and widowed

Potential Journey117 team members need to:

• Be committed to the Lordship of Jesus Christ
• Have a heart for the orphan and abandoned around the world
• Be excited about partnering with local churches around the world
• Be able to provide pastoral reference from a church where you serve

Are you ready to make a difference in the life of an orphan? Are you ready to be better equipped to speak out for the abandoned and widow? Please click on the link below to take the next step to make an impact!