Our Orphanage In India
A safe home where children are loved, educated, and raised to know Christ.
International Sanctuary Ministries cares for children who have lost one or both of their parents, lost stable family support or face extreme hardship. Some kids come from families of abuse or neglect. Our orphanage provides a safe home, daily care, education, and Christian guidance, giving each child the opportunity to grow in a loving environment alongside their many new brothers and sisters.
How Our Children's Home Began
The Children’s Home began through a relationship between supporters in the United States and a local evangelist in southeastern India named Isaac. While serving churches and villages in his region, Isaac regularly encountered children living without stable care or consistent support. When asked how a small amount of available funds could best be used, his answer was simple: help children.
In 2005, a small group of Christians in the United States partnered with Isaac to establish what was then called Sanctuary Home for Children. Isaac and his wife, Mary Margaret, welcomed the first five children into their own home, providing daily care, stability, and Christian guidance. What began as a small act of faith quickly revealed a much greater need.
As sponsorship support grew, more children were welcomed and a dedicated facility was eventually obtained. Over time, additional needs became visible — widows needing care, villages lacking resources, and opportunities for evangelism — and new ministries developed alongside the orphanage. As the work expanded, the organization became known as International Sanctuary Ministries, though the Children’s Home remains the foundation from which everything else grew.
When changing government regulations threatened many small Christian orphanages, the existing buildings no longer met new requirements. At a critical moment, God provided through donors who made it possible to purchase five acres of land and build new facilities for the Children’s Home. More recently, additional support has allowed construction of a new building that will serve both as a school and a boys’ dormitory, continuing the growth that began with just five children.
Life at the Children's Home
Children at the Home live together in a safe, family-like environment where their daily needs are consistently met. They receive regular meals, clean clothing, medical care when needed, and the stability many had never experienced before arriving. Older children help care for younger ones, and staff members serve not only as caregivers but as mentors and trusted adults in their lives.
Education is a central part of life at the Home. Children attend school on campus, giving them opportunities far beyond what many previously experienced. Time is also set aside each day for study, play, and personal development, helping children grow in confidence and responsibility.
Faith is woven naturally into daily life through prayer, Bible study, and Christian fellowship outside of school hours. Children grow up hearing the message of Christ’s love while living in a community shaped by compassion, service, and hope.
The Children’s Home is more than a place to live — it is a place where children grow, belong, and prepare for the future.
A Passport Out of Poverty
Our school is an English-medium school. Many people might not understand this, but it is a difference that can completely change a child’s future in India.
Before our school began, our children attended local government schools serving poor and low-caste communities around them. Classrooms were overcrowded, resources were scarce, and students sat on the floor because desks were unavailable. With too many students and too few resources, meaningful learning was difficult to achieve. School offered little hope of changing kids' futures and simply led back to the same poverty their families had always known. Education existed, but opportunity did not.
Our school teaches in English — something not otherwise available to children from poor and low-caste backgrounds. In India, English education often determines access to higher education, skilled employment, and opportunities far beyond a child’s village. What was once closed to these children is now within reach. They are not only learning to read and write; they are gaining the tools needed to step into a different future.
Today, our children learn in structured classrooms with desks, books, and teachers who know them by name. They study in a stable environment where learning is expected, encouraged, and supported. Instead of falling behind or being overlooked, they are growing in confidence, discipline, and hope — discovering abilities many never had the opportunity to develop before.
Education alone is not the goal. We believe every child is created with purpose and value. By providing both education and a Christ-centered environment, we seek to prepare these children not only for better opportunities in life, but also for lives shaped by faith, character, and service to others.
For these children, school is no longer simply a place to pass the day. It has become a pathway toward a future that once seemed impossible.
Help Educate and Shape a Child's Future
Sanctuary Ministries depends on faithful partners who believe in giving children not only care for today, but opportunity for a lifetime. Your support helps provide teachers, daily instruction, school supplies, and a stable learning environment where children can grow academically and spiritually.
Whether you give monthly or make a one-time gift, you become part of what God is doing through this school.
Give to Support the School
Your partnership makes this education possible for every child we serve.
Monthly giving provides steady support for teachers, utilities, and daily school operations as the ministry grows.
You may also give a one-time gift of any amount.
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International Sanctuary Ministries
PO Box 2238
Abilene, TX 79604
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