Today, Orphan’s Hope is caring for orphans with critical needs on a daily basis. While working with the charity ships Doulos and Logos II for 10 years, and in my travels since, I have been impressed by the tremendous needs of orphans around the world. It is estimated there are over 153 million orphans today. All of us need to care for these children.

While in Asia in 1997, I saw beautiful children who didn’t know where their next meal was coming from and suffered from easily treated medical issues.  I saw how a small amount of money could so significantly improve their lives and thought, “Who would not help such an orphan, if they only knew what they could accomplish for the money?”

One night, at a key point in my life, I was in the mountains praying and said to God that I would love to spend my life for Him, caring for orphans. I was two days away from taking another job and there didn’t seem any way for my vision for orphans, except for God to do a miracle. The next morning I received a call from someone I had not talked to in five months, who is a Partner of the advertising agency DKY Inc. in Minneapolis. He said God kept putting me on his heart that month and that morning in their partners’ meeting, it was like a light bulb went on in his head that He should call me and offer me a job. Without my saying anything about orphans on the call, he said they were excited about my vision for orphans, and that the job could include starting the ministry to help these children. He then said in addition, their company was willing to donate $50K of their resources towards helping make it happen! I had never talked with them about a job or coming to Minnesota, and he called on the very day I needed a miracle. It is a clear and wonderful expression of God’s compassion for these children in need and His desire to bring Orphan’s Hope into being.

Since then God has opened many doors moving Orphan’s Hope ahead with wonderful partners, staff, and volunteers. We have been able to significantly help many orphans and see them come to know the love of God in Christ. We are praying every day for partners like you who will help us make a difference in these children’s lives.

Steve Cassidy

President/Founder, Orphan’s Hope