How to Become a Sponsor

The fact that you've chosen to come to this page may be ample evidence to you that you are interested in being a part of the iCARE Ministry of the Shenandoah Presbytery and the Illubabor Bethel Synod, in Ethiopia.

Prior to determining if you wish to be a sponsor it is important for you, or your organization, to fully understand what commitment you are making and what the guidelines for sponsorship are. Please read carefully all of the links to the left under "Guidelines." These guidelines are important and necessary. If you complete an application you will agree that you have read and agree to abide by these guidelines in the interest of all the children at the Gore Home.

Often, including at the time of this writing, we do not have a need for additional sponsors. At this time, we are limited to sponsoring 50 children and we have 50 sponsors.

Currently we needd sponsors for 8 new children.

If you or your group are interested in sponsoring a child, please complete the application, linked below, and mail it to the address indicated on the application. Your name will be put in a pending list of possible sponsors. When an opportunity for a new sponsorship becomes available and a new sponsor is sought, the steering committee will pull from the list of existing and pending sponsors.

You may also support this ministry in two other important ways:

1. Pray for the children, the sponsors, the leadership and staff of the Gore Home, the iCARE Steering Committee, and the ministry as a whole. 

2. You may contribute to the "Gore Home Discretionary Fund." This is a fund maintained in Presbytery that is used for special projects, sponsor information and other special needs of the sponsored children.

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"These guidelines are not in place in an effort to be politically correct, stylish or for any reason other than that they protect the children."

Two other ways you might support this ministry
1. Prayer
2. Contribution to the "Gore Home Discretionary Fund"