Giving Tuesday

provide a safe place

for vulnerable teens

This Giving Tuesday, we are asking our community to pray about giving the same dollar amount to our teens as you will pay for your utilities this month. Keep your lights on, and theirs, too! 

Our goal is to raise $20,000 to cover utilities for all four homes this winter.

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Some houses do not feel like homes. They lack love, safety, provision, and more. The Transitional Living teens we serve in Moldova come from vulnerable living situations–stuck in the cycle of poverty and put at risk of human trafficking. When they enter our program, they come home.

JMI’s Transitional Living homes offer a safe place for teenagers to continue their education and participate in English lessons, life skills classes, computer classes, and Bible studies. They are cared for in a family-like environment with the guidance of our houseparents, social workers, psychologists, and nurses.

Within these walls, the Gospel transforms teenagers who once felt abandoned and forgotten. They graduate from the program and move out into the world as hopeful, successful young adults. Today, they are mothers and fathers, business owners, mentors, and even JMI employees.

Most of you in our JMI community know, or can imagine, how costs add up when caring for children in the U.S. This is also true in Moldova, where 10-13 teens live in each of our four homes year-round.

Sponsors play a vital role in supporting these teens by covering their individual expenses, but we need help keeping the lights on, maintaining expert staff, and funding routine maintenance. Will you pitch in? 

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Why Vulnerable Teens?

Moldova is one of the smallest and poorest countries in Europe, with one of the highest percentages for human trafficking. Justice & Mercy International focuses on those who are at the highest risk: vulnerable teenagers. In our Transitional Living program, these teens come and live in homes where they are cared for in a family-like environment with the guidance of the house parents. They can continue their education, meet with a social worker, receive love and support from JMI staff, and participate in English lessons, life skills classes, computer classes, and Bible studies. Over the last 15 years, many teenagers have graduated from the program. They once were abandoned, orphaned, and abused, but today, they are mothers and fathers, business owners, mentors, and even JMI employees. God is using this program to change the lives of these precious teenagers. JMI’s most intimate and high-impact work occurs in our Transitional Living homes, where around 50 teens live throughout the year. Transitional Living sponsorships cover the teens’ individual needs, but each of the four homes costs an additional $88,000 for staff, maintenance, and utilities.

“Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.” Ps. 82:3

JMI’s Mission

Justice & Mercy International exists to create Gospel-centered life change for the poor, the vulnerable, and the forgotten. In Moldova, we prioritize caring for children and teens who are at risk of human trafficking. In the Amazon, where 80% of the population is unreached, we train and equip jungle pastors to bring Gospel transformation to one of the most remote places in the world.

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