Falco Children’s Village Newsletter
June 2025
Falco’s Children Africa, Inc.
Jerry and Valerie Backus
Greetings to all our dear families and friends—both near and far!
We are mailing you our last newsletter by mail that we sent several weeks ago by e-mail since we do not have your e-mail address. May we please ask you to send us your e-mail address so we can keep you up to date electronically?
Will you please send us an email to: Info@FalcosChildrenAfrica.org
Thank you very much for helping us. Will you please share how we can pray for you?
We are overjoyed to be back home at Falco’s Children’s Village after spending eight wonderful weeks in the United States. While we deeply missed our children here, our time with many of you was truly enriching and full of love. Thank you for your warm hospitality and encouragement!
Our journey wasn’t without its challenges. We experienced several unexpected travel delays, our 2005 Honda has been a challenge with 370,000 miles, but both times we had trouble with the engine we were close to a repair shop, but $2,500 was cheaper than buying a new one. Thankfully, we were never left stranded without nearby help—praise God for His constant protection. Additionally, we faced a family medical emergency involving a cardiac issue, but we are grateful to report that our loved one is now stable and recovering.
Our current budget for June has reached $27,000, primarily due to school fees, food, medical costs, staff salaries, and essential operations. All the boarding students are coming home for four weeks, and we will be sending them their food back with them for the next quarter. This is significantly higher than our usual monthly needs, but we trust God will move hearts to help. If you are able, would you consider contributing to help us meet this urgent need?
While we were away, the children missed us dearly—and we missed them too. In our absence, three new little ones joined our growing family, including a precious newborn baby girl named Angel, whose mother sadly passed away during childbirth. Baby Angel is now thriving in our care, and we ask you to join us in welcoming her with love and support. She needs medical attention, formula, diapers, clothes, and warm sweaters for the cold season. We also received two more children that their mother was not taking care of since they were living on the streets by themselves.
 
Angel Baraka and Glory
Speaking of winter, we are in the southern hemisphere, so it is winter here now and the temperatures have dropped, and while most of the children are doing well with only mild colds and runny noses, they are in need of warm clothing—especially sweaters. We are so thankful to God for keeping them healthy and protected.
A Special Appeal: Continuing Education for Our Graduates
At Falco’s, we care deeply about the long-term success of every child entrusted to us—even after they reach the age of 18 and are formally discharged from our orphanage program. This year, we have two exceptional young ladies who have grown up with us and are now pursuing their dreams of higher education.
One of them is Riziki, whom we received into our care when she was just two years old. Orphaned at a young age, she was raised briefly by her grandmother under very difficult conditions. Sadly, due to extreme poverty, her grandmother turned to selling alcohol to survive. Riziki fears returning to that environment. She says that without help to continue her education, her only option would be to return to help her grandmother sell alcohol—just to survive. Often, they only manage one small meal a day and live in extremely poor accommodations.
We are determined to offer her a brighter future.
Riziki has shown great promise, resilience, and faith. She dreams of completing her advanced studies and becoming someone who can not only support herself but lift her family out of generational poverty. The cost for each of these young women to continue school through the rest of the year is $1,500.
We have contributed what we can, but with over 120 children under our care, our resources are stretched thin. Would you prayerfully consider helping us sponsor Riziki or another young woman like her to continue their education in July? Together, we can help them step into a bright future filled with purpose and hope.
Looking Ahead: 2025 Goals
As we continue through 2025, we’re excited to share some of our dreams and goals with you:
1. Expanding Our Livestock
We hope to grow our livestock to help feed our children and create a sustainable source of income. We currently have bulls, milk cows, goats, sheep, and chickens—but we need more in order to both feed the children and generate income through sales. Would you consider helping by Buying an animal? We raise the bulls for meat for the children, and one bull is approx.$150 and $750 for a Milk Cow, and $100 for Milk Goat. We also want to buy an egg incubator so we can hatch our own chicks, and it will cost approx. $450.
2. Strengthening Our Farming Efforts
Our farm continues to produce maize, corn, cabbage, green peppers, lentils, beans, and more. However, we’re limited in how much we can grow due to a lack of seedlings and farm supplies. We dream of being able to fully supply our children’s food needs and also sell the surplus to support the Village.
We’ve harvested this week an abundance of sunflowers, and we’re excited to produce sunflower oil from this blessing. We will be harvesting maze next week. Thank you for the seeds you’ve already planted—your love and support are bearing fruit!
 
Harvest of Sunflower Seeds Very Large Sunflowers
We are so grateful for your prayers, your financial support, and your love.
Whether you’ve traveled here or supported us from afar, you are part of this journey, and we couldn’t do it without you. As Scripture reminds us:
“Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” — Galatians 6:9
It is harvesting time—and thanks to your help, we are reaping a harvest of blessing.
A Word from Our Hearts
As administrators of Falco’s Children’s Village, we realize that asking for help month after month may seem like we are always in need. And truthfully, if it were just about us—we would find a way to manage. But it is because of the precious children God has entrusted to us, and their growing needs, that we are not weary in asking.
We know you have your own responsibilities. We know there are many ministries, many needs, and many good works around the world. So when we come to you again, it is not without deep humility, and never without gratitude. We appeal to you today, not out of desperation, but out of faith—faith that God has brought us this far through you, and faith that He will continue to supply through the hearts of those who care.
There are days we feel pressed—but we are not discouraged. We may be down—but God lifts us up through your prayers, your support, and your friendship. We are confident that God has placed us together in this part of His vineyard, with you, to carry out this mission of love and restoration.
And we want more than anything to hear His voice say, “Well done.”
But we know that “well done” will not be heard by our own strength or effort alone. It will be because of the Holy Spirit, God’s angels, and God’s people like you—who have joined their hands with ours to give these children what every child deserves: love, encouragement, hope, and a bright future.
We dream of the day when these children—grown strong, educated, and full of hope—will meet the very people who helped change their lives. People like you. People who gave, prayed, and believed.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.
Thank you for your sacrifices, for your enduring love, for your commitment, and for your prayers. Without this, we would not have come this far. You have helped us carry what never felt like a burden, but instead a joy and a privilege—to serve in God’s vineyard and love these children.
We pray that we have not wearied or disappointed you. Our needs may be many, but our hope is stronger. We trust that together, hand in hand, we will carry this mission to the finish line. For He who began a good work in us will be faithful to complete it—until that glorious day when we all hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant… enter into the joy of the Lord”—with all our children by our side.
God bless you, and may He continue to use you to bless others as He sets up divine appointments for us to reach others on this journey.
Will you please write to us and share how we can pray for you and your family?
Will you please share this update with your family and friends?
Thank you. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
We have two ways you can help us.
First, you can use PayPal on our website, Second, by Zelle by using the e-mail address of: jerry@falcoschildrenafrica.org Will you Please send us a message by e-mail because Zelle does not give us your e-mail address.
With all our love and gratitude,
Jerry, Valerie, and our 190 staff and children.
www.FalcosChildrenAfrica.org
Falco’s Children Africa, Inc.
P.O. Box 14
Sapulpa, Ok 74067 |
