My House MInistries
Arch Bonnema
President & Founder
Who We Are
“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
Our team
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 6:19-21 —Arch & Sherry Bonnema have taken over 300 humanitarian and short term mission trips, visiting 73 different countries. Their hearts have been deeply touched by the lives and needs they have encountered in Third World Countries around the globe. My House Ministries is their response to that tremendous need. Today there are over 15 million children who have been orphaned and that number is expected to climb to 20 million by the year 2010.
My House Ministries began as a private effort of Arch & Sherry Bonnema of Texas. They started by funding projects to restore the lives of orphans in the most desperate third world countries. The mission has grown as it has teamed up with other orphan focused organizations.
Arch bonnema
Founder and President
Sherry bonnema
Co-founder
Our Commitments
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1. Building awareness of the despair faced by children around the world and the ways in which their needs can be addressed.
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2. Providing resources that meet sustained spiritual, physical, social and emotional needs of children under our care.
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3. Sharing the message of the transforming power of Christ’s love through words and action to each child.
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4. Implementing the Biblical principle of caring for widows through involving them in our orphan care homes, when it is possible.
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5. Partnering with other organizations to maximize efficiency through specialization.
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6. Fostering development efforts that bring about self-sufficiency of individual homes and the children raised in them.
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7. Maximizing the giving power of donors and sponsors through partnerships, matching grants and auditing programs.
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1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God..
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2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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3. We believe in the deity and humanity of Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His present rule as Head of the Church and in His personal return in power and glory.
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4. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful men regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
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5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
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6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
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7. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, with equality across racial, gender, and class differences.
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Statement of Faith
>> Partner: Children of the Promise
"Imagine driving through the country side of a poor third world nation and seeing how people live without hope. Now imagine coming to a stop sign and being approached by a young mother. She asks you to take her newborn child because she is not able to care for the infant. Now imagine this scenario repeating itself 3 times in 6 days. What would you do?"
check out this website: www.childrenofthepromise.org and see one possible answer when you are willing to do something. We can all do something.
>> Partner: FaithComesByHearing.com
Faith Comes By Hearing.comChurch/ Home Model
Our mission is achieved as we provide holistic care to orphans in the context of a family-environment, through our effective church/ home model.
