PICTURES

 
 
CHILDREN'S HOME

This was part of the original vision - to reach out to children in need, especially to those who were living in the jails with their parent(s).

One day, whilst ministering in the jail, God spoke to Chrissy saying "Now is the time to take the children." She tried to reason that she had no facility and no workers to which He responded, "Look around you". As she looked around and saw rapists, paedophiles, murderers, prostitutues, homosexuals, etc. she realised that no situation could be worse for the children - no matter how bad the facility. That very day the police escorted the children to POC and the children's home began.

Over the years the children's home grew, and divided into 2 seperate homes - a boys' and a girls'.

The Boys' Home
The house parents of the boys' home are Pam and Martin Scott. They are both former school teachers from Wakefield, UK who, after a short visit to POC, felt called to that ministry. The boys in the home are from various backgrounds. Some are children of ex-prisoners, some are children of current inmates (one parent is even on death row), some are from tribal villages, and others are children whose parents could not afford to feed them.

The boys' home facility is owned by POC. It has recently been refurbished to a high standard, and provides a comfortable and stable environment for 25 or more children.

The Girls' Home
Rachel Hailes (Chrissy's neice) is the acting house parent for the girls' home. Similarly to Pam and Martin, Rachel came out to visit, and felt the call of God to join POC. She has a great love for the Philippino children to the extent that she has now legally fostered a young boy called Rodnie Daus. The girls also come from similar backgrounds to the boys.

The girls home facility, however, is not owned by POC but is merely rented. It sustained damage from the erruption of the nearby volcano Mt. Pinatubo. The damage was a result of the enormous weight of several feet of ash, and the accompanying earth tremours. What Pinatubo left, the termites got, what the termites left, the rats and the bats got - leaving the girls' house in a terrible state of disrepair. The girls, are happy, well-fed, well-clothed, and well-educated, however, it is now POC's priority to provide them with a more suitable home.