Nov 26, 2003
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Welcome to Acres of Love
Acres of Love provides care, love and hope for abandoned and HIV positive babies and children. Through our homesthese unwanted children receive the highest level of care to attain their full potential.
Acres of Love in Calvary Chapel Missions magazine, Winter 2006 Harvest of Hope
From death to life
CC Santa Barbara partners with a South African ministry dedicated to serving abandoned and HIV/AIDS infants and children.
…On the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born.
And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you… “Live!” I made you thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful.
Ezek. 16:4-7a
Spreading like a deathly shadow through South Africa, HIV/AIDS has left thousands of children orphaned or victimized in horrific ways. The Lord Jesus Christ is using His church to rescue many of these innocent children from a cruel, hopeless fate.
CC Santa Barbara recently opened a Christian family home in South Africa with eight babies and children abandoned or orphaned because of HIV/AIDS. The church partnered with Acres of Love, a ministry dedicated to reaching some of the 750,000 orphans and abandoned children in South Africa affected by HIV/AIDS. Read More...