OUR VISION
Our Mission and Vision
Upendo Children’s Village is a US not-for-profit corporation with a mission to provide oversight, support, protection and assistance to Upendo Children’s Village in Mzuzu, Malawi, Africa, through prayer, financial support and missionary presence whenever possible.
Our vision is to help Upendo Children’s Village in Mzuzu to raise their children to become healthy, happy, responsible and independent adults following Jesus Christ and contributing to the betterment of Malawi.
Our History
The founders of Upendo Children’s Village, Bishop Samuel Mkisi and his wife Florence, live in Mzuzu, where they pastor Church On The Wings and oversee a growing number of branch churches all over Malawi. Every Sunday, the children are driven into the city of Mzuzu where they worship at Church On The Wings and are taught the Word of God by Samuel and Florence. Many of the children help lead worship during the service.
In 2012, by God’s divine arrangement, and with the help of Christian churches and ministries headquartered in Rochester, NY, Samuel and Florence began an orphanage in Mzuzu to meet the needs of orphaned, abandoned and endangered children in the area. Today, this orphanage is called Upendo Children’s Village and is currently home to more than 60 children.
Church On The Wings
The children of Upendo are under the care of Bishop Samuel Mkisi and his wife Florence, and we all worship together at the Church on the Wings in Mzuzu, Malawi.