November 5, 2026
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Independent Christian ChurchRural India Christian MissionRural India Christian Mission serves rural India through evangelism, church planting, discipleship, children’s care, education, medical…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Rural India Christian Mission
Rural India Christian Mission — Organization Profile Rural India Christian Mission, also known as RICM, is a Christian mission organization focused on reaching the unreached with the good news of salvation through the Gospel of Christ. The ministry states that…
Rural India Christian Mission — Organization Profile Rural India Christian Mission, also known as RICM, is a Christian mission organization focused on reaching the unreached with the good news of salvation through the Gospel of Christ. The ministry states that it has served for more than five decades, since 1973, and that its founders gave their lives to helping people move from darkness to light through Christ. The mission serves rural India, with a focus on communities where evangelism, discipleship, education, care for children, widows, elderly people, and humanitarian support are needed. Its public materials emphasize Gospel outreach alongside practical service, showing concern for both spiritual formation and physical needs among vulnerable people and underserved communities. RICM’s ministry approach includes…
Rural India Christian Mission — Organization Profile
Rural India Christian Mission, also known as RICM, is a Christian mission organization focused on reaching the unreached with the good news of salvation through the Gospel of Christ. The ministry states that it has served for more than five decades, since 1973, and that its founders gave their lives to helping people move from darkness to light through Christ.
The mission serves rural India, with a focus on communities where evangelism, discipleship, education, care for children, widows, elderly people, and humanitarian support are needed. Its public materials emphasize Gospel outreach alongside practical service, showing concern for both spiritual formation and physical needs among vulnerable people and underserved communities.
RICM’s ministry approach includes planting churches through evangelizing the unreached, nurturing disciples, and developing leaders. These priorities reflect a mission strategy that begins with Gospel preaching and continues through local discipleship and leadership development. The organization also lists Gospel meetings, baptisms, street preaching, youth ministry, and Vacation Bible School as parts of its outreach and spiritual formation work.
The organization’s practical ministries include a children’s home, children’s ministry, Vedha Mini School, medical ministry, hunger relief, humanitarian work, relief work, and emergency disaster management. RICM also describes support for widows and elderly people through New Life Centre, along with day care centers and efforts connected to education, health, and rural development.
Women’s empowerment and vocational training are also part of the mission’s work. RICM lists self-help groups, small business opportunities, free computer coaching, tailoring coaching, and vocational training centers among its public ministry areas. These efforts are designed to help people gain practical skills, economic opportunity, and community support.
People can engage with Rural India Christian Mission by praying, giving through its official website, contacting the ministry through its site, and supporting its church planting, children’s care, education, humanitarian, medical, disaster relief, and vocational training work. Its distinct contribution is a rural India-focused mission that combines evangelism, church planting, discipleship, leadership development, education, children’s care, women’s empowerment, medical help, and relief ministry.
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Independent Christian ChurchKulpahar Kid Home and Christian SchoolKulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School provides residential care, Christian education, secure facilities, and spiritual guidance…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Kulpahar Kid Home and Christian School
Kulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School — Organization Profile Kulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School is a Christian ministry and educational work located in Kulpahar, Mahoba District, Uttar Pradesh, India, with U.S. donation support connected to Phoenix, Arizona. The ministry…
Kulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School — Organization Profile Kulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School is a Christian ministry and educational work located in Kulpahar, Mahoba District, Uttar Pradesh, India, with U.S. donation support connected to Phoenix, Arizona. The ministry began in 1947 when an infant girl named Sosun was given to Leah Moshier and Dolly Chitwood, the founders of Kulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School. The organization’s core focus is providing children with loving residential care, quality education, Christian spiritual guidance, and practical support in northern India. Kulpahar Kids’ Home reports that over the years approximately 800 children were received into the care of Dolly, Leah, and Linda. The ministry’s stated motto is to provide quality education, facilities, and…
Kulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School — Organization Profile
Kulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School is a Christian ministry and educational work located in Kulpahar, Mahoba District, Uttar Pradesh, India, with U.S. donation support connected to Phoenix, Arizona. The ministry began in 1947 when an infant girl named Sosun was given to Leah Moshier and Dolly Chitwood, the founders of Kulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School.
The organization’s core focus is providing children with loving residential care, quality education, Christian spiritual guidance, and practical support in northern India. Kulpahar Kids’ Home reports that over the years approximately 800 children were received into the care of Dolly, Leah, and Linda. The ministry’s stated motto is to provide quality education, facilities, and love.
Kulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School serves children and students in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, India, including Kulpahar and the wider Mahoba District. Kulpahar Christian School describes itself as serving children in northern India since 1948, with Hindu, Muslim, and Christian children and staff learning and working together. Public nonprofit listings describe the ministry as supporting a school and home for more than 400 children in the Uttar Pradesh region.
The organization operates through the Kulpahar Kids’ Home, Kulpahar Christian School, hostel life, worship facilities, educational programs, and community outreach projects. The school year runs from April 1 to March 31, and school days begin with morning assembly in the chapel building, including songs, responsive Bible reading, prayer, the Lord’s Prayer, and patriotic elements such as the national anthem or pledge. Kulpahar Christian School operates under The Church of Christ Mission as a religious society under Act XXI of 1860.
A distinctive part of Kulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School is combining residential care, school instruction, Christian formation, and secure facilities on a large mission campus. The ministry reports 32 acres divided into three compounds with 24-hour security, including girls, hospital, and school compounds. Its facilities include staff housing, classrooms, a computer lab, a spacious library, playground areas, generators, and other support spaces used for daily care and education.
People can engage with Kulpahar Kids’ Home and Christian School by praying, giving by check or money order through the U.S. donation address, contacting the ministry by email, or learning more through the official Kids’ Home and school websites. Support helps sustain the children’s home, Christian school, facilities, education, and ongoing care for children and students in Kulpahar.
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Independent Christian ChurchJochebed’s HopeJochebed’s Hope serves children, students, families, and churches in Indonesia through education, housing, vocational training, church…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Jochebed’s Hope
Jochebed’s Hope — Organization Profile Jochebed’s Hope is a Christian nonprofit ministry based in Fremont, Nebraska, serving children, students, families, churches, and communities in Indonesia. The organization describes its work as sharing the love of God and transforming lives through…
Jochebed’s Hope — Organization Profile Jochebed’s Hope is a Christian nonprofit ministry based in Fremont, Nebraska, serving children, students, families, churches, and communities in Indonesia. The organization describes its work as sharing the love of God and transforming lives through education, training, and empowerment. Its ministry is rooted in long-term relationships that grew from Christian mission work in Indonesia beginning in the 1960s. The organization’s core focus is providing children and students in Indonesia with food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education access, vocational training, and Christian encouragement. Jochebed’s Hope serves children who would otherwise have limited access to schooling and basic care, while also investing in adults and church leaders who can strengthen their own communities. Jochebed’s Hope serves Indonesia,…
Jochebed’s Hope — Organization Profile
Jochebed’s Hope is a Christian nonprofit ministry based in Fremont, Nebraska, serving children, students, families, churches, and communities in Indonesia. The organization describes its work as sharing the love of God and transforming lives through education, training, and empowerment. Its ministry is rooted in long-term relationships that grew from Christian mission work in Indonesia beginning in the 1960s.
The organization’s core focus is providing children and students in Indonesia with food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education access, vocational training, and Christian encouragement. Jochebed’s Hope serves children who would otherwise have limited access to schooling and basic care, while also investing in adults and church leaders who can strengthen their own communities.
Jochebed’s Hope serves Indonesia, with primary work on the island of Nias and additional support in Jakarta on the island of Java. Its children’s home and dormitories are located in Gunungsitoli, the largest city on Nias. The ministry also supports work in villages and congregations across Nias, where some communities remain geographically isolated and face limited educational and economic opportunity.
The organization operates through several connected programs. Its children’s home in Gunungsitoli provides housing, food, clothing, medical care, and school access for elementary through high school students. Its dormitory program provides free housing and a monthly stipend for upper-high school and college-aged students who move into the city to continue their education. In Jakarta, Jochebed’s Hope supports Connor’s House, a children’s home where children receive housing, food, clothing, medical care, and education.
A distinctive part of Jochebed’s Hope is combining child care, student housing, vocational training, church support, evangelism, and leadership development in one long-term ministry strategy. Its vocational training programs have included hair cutting, motorcycle repair, and sewing, with the sewing program described as the most regularly scheduled. The ministry also supports Churches of Christ on Nias through traveling preachers, roof-replacement assistance, and church leadership training.
People can engage with Jochebed’s Hope by donating, subscribing to updates, following ministry stories, supporting the Vanilla Project, purchasing available products when offered, praying, or contacting the organization directly. The Vanilla Project began as an effort to help create job opportunities by connecting vanilla grown in a mountain village on Nias with potential buyers in the United States. The organization states that designated funding covers operating costs so that 100 percent of donations go to supporting those served in Indonesia.
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Independent Christian ChurchCookson HillsCookson Hills provides home, school, and therapy for children ages 5–17 who need stability, trauma-informed care,…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Cookson Hills
Cookson Hills — Organization Profile Cookson Hills is a Christian children’s home, school, and therapy ministry serving children who are at risk. Since 1957, the organization has provided a nurturing home, quality Christian education, and therapy services in a safe,…
Cookson Hills — Organization Profile Cookson Hills is a Christian children’s home, school, and therapy ministry serving children who are at risk. Since 1957, the organization has provided a nurturing home, quality Christian education, and therapy services in a safe, trauma-informed environment. Its work is shaped by a vision to raise up healthy individuals who are empowered to positively impact future generations. Cookson Hills is located in the rural Cookson Hills region of Northeast Oklahoma, with its campus in Kansas, Oklahoma. The ministry serves children ages 5–17 from across the United States who have experienced challenges such as family instability, school truancy, homelessness, poor peer relationships, abuse, or neglect. Children are privately placed with the consent of a parent or…
Cookson Hills — Organization Profile
Cookson Hills is a Christian children’s home, school, and therapy ministry serving children who are at risk. Since 1957, the organization has provided a nurturing home, quality Christian education, and therapy services in a safe, trauma-informed environment. Its work is shaped by a vision to raise up healthy individuals who are empowered to positively impact future generations.
Cookson Hills is located in the rural Cookson Hills region of Northeast Oklahoma, with its campus in Kansas, Oklahoma. The ministry serves children ages 5–17 from across the United States who have experienced challenges such as family instability, school truancy, homelessness, poor peer relationships, abuse, or neglect. Children are privately placed with the consent of a parent or guardian when the family is seeking placement and support.
The organization’s model combines home life, education, and therapy. In the residential program, children live in family-style homes with married Christian houseparents who are trained in trauma-informed care. Houseparents provide stability, daily structure, encouragement, and life-skills support while walking with each child toward personal goals and growth.
Education is provided through Cookson Hills Christian School, a year-round, K–12, ACSI-accredited Christian school for children placed in the ministry’s care. Teachers work with houseparents, social workers, and other staff to provide Christ-centered, holistic education with academic support, personal guidance, and practical life tools. The school serves students who may need additional structure and support to engage learning with confidence.
Therapeutic care is also central to the ministry. Cookson Hills provides weekly counseling, horsemanship, and Equine Therapy using the EAGALA model. These services are designed to help children process trauma, build trust, develop emotional skills, and see their past through a new lens. The organization also notes that family counseling may be offered at the discretion of a child’s therapist.
People can engage with Cookson Hills by referring a child, praying for children and staff, giving financially, joining the mailing list, serving through mission trips, using VBS mission resources, volunteering labor, purchasing ministry merchandise, or supporting the ministry’s needs list. Cookson Hills is primarily funded by individuals, churches, foundations, and businesses and states that it accepts no direct government funding.
