Twelve years ago, pastor Libni Gasca Montenegro founded a small church in a lower-middle-class neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia.  He started the church by going door-to-door talking to people, eventually forming several small groups of discipleship and prayer.  In the meantime, he was driving a taxi to pay for his personal expenses.

One Sunday, Libni was preparing the small meeting room for service with two other Brazilian missionaries.  Time passed and no one was coming to the service.  As he says, “It was like everyone collectively had decided not to come to church.”  The discouraged missionaries said “lets just pray and call it a day.”  However, Libni felt God telling him, “The service isn’t for others; it’s for me.”  Instead of leaving they continued on as planned and after a half an hour of worship music, several young kids came to the door.  They were kids who lived in a shack by a large sewage drain not too far from the church. They asked Libni, “Do you guys talk about Jesus here?”  “Yes we do,” replied Libni, and that day they held a church service for those 5 or 6 street kids.  From that day fourth, his church The Christian Movement of Plenty has never been empty again.  Libni shares that story with others as an example of God calling us to be faithful in serving “the least of these” first and foremost.

Following that calling, the church’s mission is to build a ministry that helps those in greatest need and those in greatest risk of abuse. For that reason, we started the foundation Children’s Outreach Ministries. We decided to focus our mission first on girls under the age of 12 who come from extremely poor and abusive homes, at high risk of sex trafficking. Some of the girls have lost their parents to violent murders, and others have simply been abandoned. Please join with us in giving these girls the loving support they need.