Our Story

Our story began with humility, hope, and the urgency of the Child.

In 2003, Mike and Beth Fox, our founders, got an email: a humble local church in a refugee camp on the border of Myanmar and Thailand had become family to 17 children whose parents were massacred.  The local church needed $750 to provide a bamboo lean-to for the children and their caregivers.

The pastor sent an email for help to a friend, and that email then ricocheted all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, to the hearts of Mike and Beth.

Mike and Beth said, "yes!"

They found a way to connect with that church and meet the need. They had no desire to be the heroes, only to quietly empower the local church to do more of what they were already doing. That one care-connection was the beginning of our ministry.

"We witnessed both heartbreak and beauty—the dedication of caregivers serving children who weren't their own showed us the transformative power of community." - Mike Fox

"When we saw these children, we couldn't look away. We knew we had to be part of the solution. God called us to make a difference and we committed ourselves fully to this mission." — Beth Fox

"We witnessed both heartbreak and beauty—the dedication of caregivers serving children who weren't their own showed us the transformative power of community." - Mike Fox

"When we saw these children, we couldn't look away. We knew we had to be part of the solution. God called us to make a difference and we committed ourselves fully to this mission." - Beth Fox

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In 2004, Mike and Beth Fox founded The Global Orphan Project (formerly C3 Missions).

What began as a personal calling to empower churches to care for kids and families in crisis in their own villages became something far greater.

Friends and family joined Mike and Beth, and one care-connection became a movement of the Holy Spirit. Rather than control the organization for their own self-promotion, they decided to create a community of game-changing philanthropists and social entrepreneurs to do something together that none of us can do alone; to do exactly what they had done one time, thousands and even millions of times. That is the birth and heart of GO Project.

Today, we are doing the same thing that Mike and Beth did in 2003, at scale. Through the power of community, commerce, and the love of Jesus, we've expanded our impact across three continents, working closely with local churches to keep families together and break the orphan cycle.
Our preventative platforms form a comprehensive ecosystem designed to stop family breakdown before it occurs. Each platform addresses different aspects of family stability:

Enables rapid community response by connecting local churches and care stakeholders with real-time family needs identified by social workers. This Care-Sharing technology facilitates timely relational connections before crises escalate to family separation.

CarePortal

Creates economic stability through fair-wage employment and local faith-driven entrepreneurship.  By providing dignified work and sustainable income, GOEX helps parents maintain financial security to support their families.

GO Exchange (GOEX)
Strong Family

Equips local churches with tools and frameworks to strengthen vulnerable families in their communities. This platform leverages existing community assets to help families move from crisis to stability.

Together, these platforms create a network of support that addresses the root causes of family breakdown - from economic instability to lack of community. By taking this preventative approach, we can help families stay together and thrive.
With the support of generous partners, we help dismantle the root causes of the orphan cycle so more children can grow up where they belong—at home.
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We have a community of anonymous families called the Founders' Circle. They are the angel investors who fund GO Project's operational costs and provide
catalytic investment to our platforms.

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The Global Orphan Project is a registered 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Tax-Exempt Organization.