- All office space requirements, amenities, administrative support, etc. are either volunteered or donated by the board members.
- There are no salaries or stipends of any kind associated with the board for the overall leadership of ALN.
- The ALN board personally donates a vast majority of the resources associated with the activities necessary to win the lost and care for the poor.
- No dollars are spent on fundraising activities, mailings, commercials, etc.
- This website was paid for directly by ALN board members.
- Aggressive budgeting and financial oversight performed and critically reviewed by ALN board members.
In 1999, we traveled to the former Soviet Union, specifically, Ukraine. While we were there, we learned that more than 200,000 children were homeless and living on the streets and in the sewers throughout the country. Very few people or organizations were working to help them and the government had no money to run the few orphanages that existed at the time. Four and five year old children were eating from the garbage or what they could beg or scrounge.
God put a deep desire in our hearts to help, we just didn't know how. Soon, God opened a door. We met with leaders of local churches and agreed to a plan. If we would bring in the money to pay for and rehab the buildings, they would be willing to staff and run orphanages for children rescued from the streets.
With no idea how we could fund it or where the money would come from, we committed to finance 25 orphanages over a two year period. The churches committed to the on-going care of the children and the buildings.
Almost as soon as we made the promise, something incredible began to happen. Without ever, not even one time, asking anyone for a penny, people began to give to this project. We simply told the story of what we were planning and God touched peoples hearts. Children here in the U.S. were having birthday parties and instead of asking for gifts for themselves, they were asking for donations to help build the homes for orphans in Ukraine. It was amazing. Every penny we needed to build not 25 but 29 orphanages came in without a single request for funds. God was our fund-raiser.
So, that has set a pattern in our ministry. We simply won't ask for money. We won't spend money on fund-raising. We won't manipulate or send out desperate letters. We believe that if what we are doing is pleasing to God, He will touch the hearts of those people who He wants to be involved. Our job is to tell the story, His job is to bring in the money we need to do the work that He has given us to do.
