We are two hearts beating as one, two hands with one heart, reaching across the ocean for the love of God's children.

Bishop John K. Yambasu, Child Reintegration Centre Founder

OUR MISSION

​Forming trusted partnerships to transform communities and to serve vulnerable children and families through support for education, health care, and spiritual mentoring.​

OUR VISION

​We believe that we can make a difference, that collaborative efforts to serve the most vulnerable will one day transform the world, and that all people will live in strong, nurturing communities where children and their families can fulfill their God-given potential through good health and education.

HELPING CHILDREN WORLDWIDE

​builds trusting relationships with mission sustaining partners, and collaborates with international program partners to transform communities and tackle the greatest barriers to sustainable futures: poverty, disease, illiteracy, and despair.

We partner with local leadership to strengthen communities in Sierra Leone, one of the poorest countries in the world, by supporting programs that provide vulnerable children and their families with opportunities for education, health care, and spiritual mentoring. 

Two of the programs HCW underwrites, the Child Reintegration Centre (CRC) and Mercy Hospital are especially focused on education, family stability, maternal health, infant survival, and childhood nutrition.  

HCW provides life-changing care for thousands of children and their families by supporting the CRC and Mercy Hospital through financial underwriting, training, technical advice, and long term and short term mission teams.   

Join us today to transform lives and communities!

2020 Impact Statement & 2019 Annual Report now available

The 2020 Probity-Peterson Golf Tournament was a success! View photos online. 

Remembering Bishop John K. Yambasu, CRC Founder

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CRC Alumni Johanese Baun remembers the life of bishop Yambasu."To God be the glory. You will forever be missed by our UMC Family, the Yambasu Family, the CRC family, friends, and colleagues. And you will forever live in my heart." Follow the link in the bio for more.

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"He dedicated his life to improving the lives of others. He was the best example I knew of servant leadership. Although he had many responsibilities and positions of power, he never forgot about caring for the people in his life. He often rearranged his busy schedule in order to be available for important events. He made it a point of duty to be available for my engagement and performed my wedding ceremony himself." Mohamed Nabieu a CRC alumnus reflects on the passing of Bishop Yambasu, to read more follow the link in our bio.

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"We are two hearts beating as one, two hands with one heart, reaching across the ocean for the love of God's children." Bishop John K. Yambasu Bishop John K. Yambasu, Resident Bishop of the Sierra Leone Area of The United Methodist Church and founder of the Child Reintegration Centre, has tragically died in a road accident this morning in Sierra Leone. Just last month the CRC joyously celebrated 20 years since Bishop Yambasu appealed to fellow Christians in the US to come to the rescue of thousands of children left homeless by the civil war, and the mission of the CRC was launched. "Bishop Yambasu was a kind, insightful, courageous, and gifted leader, befitting of an ardent follower of Christ. He was generous with his life, devoting it to the care of God’s people, the widow, the orphan, the sick and the ill-treated. Those of us who were blessed to walk even a short distance of his journey alongside of him know how deeply he trusted in the goodness of God and the faith he held in the United Methodist Church and the tenants of Christianity. He worked tirelessly to bring hope and healing to a wounded world, traveling far and enduring much to lend his voice to bring the peace of heaven to earth. He wasted nothing of the life he was given. His presence will be missed throughout the world," HCW Executive Director Melody Curtiss said. Bishop Yambasu was born in Bo, Sierra Leone and received his primary and secondary education at United Methodist mission schools in Sierra Leone. He earned a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Njala University, and completed his Master of Theology degree at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Bishop Yambasu leaves behind his wife Millicent, and their five children, Rebecca, Adima, John, Emmanuel and Elizabeth. Bishop Yambasu's legacy will live forever in the thousands of children and families rescued from extreme poverty and despair by the CRC. He was indeed "father to the fatherless." We mourn with his family and all those whose lives were forever changed by knowing this Godly man.

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