Evangelist Rupert Henry has been a big part of local foster children advocacy, providing help for both the children and foster parents, through his Foster Youth Connection advocacy group. The city of Kissimmee has partnered with CarePortal, which partners church groups with the needs of foster children.
But earlier this month, Henry took his mission abroad, expanding past Osceola County into the Caribbean.
Calling it the Surrender All Project, Henry traveled to the Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados. His ministry group went to foster homes and orphanages there with supplies needed by the people there—water, health care items, toys and children’s shoes and clothing —and held ministering revivals and baptisms.
“Those are items they are still having a hard time getting,” Henry said, noting that northwest Bahamas, particularly Grand Bahama Island and Abaco, are still feeling the effects from when Category 5 Hurricane Dorian ravaged the area in 2019.
“It was a powerful trip. Many of the children there are the children of prisoners and other criminals. We’ve been able to help them revive their lives. We’re going to adopt the home we visited in the Bahamas; it’s close to us and my wife’s family is from there.”
Highlights from the trip can be viewed at the Surrender All Project YouTube site (www. youtube.com/@surrender allproject9877).
The focus returns to Osceola County this week. The Surrender All Project will partner with Greeneway Church on John Young Parkway in Kissimmee for Friday’s Celebrate Our Youth concert at 6 p.m.
