Built in 1999, our two-story Glorious Children's Home is designed for neglected, abandoned and orphaned children. It can house 150 children, from toddlers to teens, and it is blessed with a staff devoted to providing them peaceful security and positive Christian discipleship.

Sister Sarojam has been the impetus behind this endeavor, impassioned by her own experience as an orphan. (Moses Paulose had chosen her as his wife, in part, because she was an orphan ... contrary to Indian custom). The children at GCH have individual sponsors in the USA, and these sponsorships are administrated by Precious Daughters, a children's ministry founded by Leslie Leland of Portland, Oregon. Sister Leslie took a team to Rameswaram, their luggage bulging with the steel components of a fantastic playground set, which now . . .

blesses the children there (see their website).

The recent Tsunami created its own wave of recent orphans, and GCH has taken children who had nowhere to go, plus providing supplemental help for children with surviving families who are struggling to provide basic necessities. We encourage families to stay together, and our ministry gives hope for them to do so.

Abandoned girls are those in greatest need in India, as they are in grave jeopardy of death or enslavement. Among the poor, the Indian dowry system engenders the discarding of girls, and sometimes they are killed at birth (femicide). The Paulose Family's youngest daughter, Grace, was just such a rescue, whom they later adopted. Our orphaned girls now have a chance for opportunities they may never have had otherwise. While staying at GCH, they (along with the orphaned boys) receive excellent schooling.

We teach these orphans to raise food for themselves in the garden, and of course, we train them to live responsibly before God. These are serving the Lord with gladness. You would have to see it for yourself to really know the joy in these children, day in and day out, and we so dearly love them.

The orphan boys are housed separately, in a one-story facility located on the opposite side of our campus from the 2-story girls home.