5 Star Global Ministry
OUR VISION: To empower families, caretakers, and locals to provide Christ-centered disability care while training and educating nationals to provide disability advocacy in under-developed countries.
OUR MISSION: We are a Christ-centered ministry whose goal is making the Invisible…Visible by giving a Voice to the voiceless through Christ, Church and Community. Showing the love of Christ first through our actions then through our words. Daily building relationships and being Christ’s hands and feet to those living with a disability in countries that see them as cursed for being different. Bringing hope to the hopeless, light into the darkness…and Joy in the midst of hardship. Making Christ’s love visible and available to ALL! All while using the individual gifts and talents God has given each of us to help each child reach their fullest potential. We plan to do this by focusing on the 5 aspects that form our starfish.
5 ASPECTS OF OUR STARFISH
1.Christ-centered
Family Empowerment
Disability Advocacy
Training and Educating Nationals
Holistic Therapeutic Medical Care
Autumn Marshall OTR/L
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT of 5 STAR
Autumn’s passion for Haiti and children with special needs happened on her first mission trip to Haiti in 2007. During that trip her heart hurt when she discovered how children and adults with any type of disability were seen as worthless, cursed, possessed, and therefore were often abandoned, left to die, or ostracized from their communities. The children whose families chose to keep them never got the opportunity to go to school, rarely had friends and many times were malnourished, and rarely got outside their homes. Families who chose to keep their children with disabilities were looked down upon. They were seen as the reason why their child was disabled because they must have done something wrong, and often they as a family were ostracized from their community. As an Occupational Therapist, Autumn saw the potential that each of these children had. She saw children ready to thrive. She saw walls that needed to be broken down so these INVISIBLE children would become VISIBLE. Her mission and vision is to make the Invisible…Visible through Christ…Children…Community…To fight for and advocate for the needs and rights of special needs children in Haiti…and to empower nationals and families to care for these children as God would. Her dream is that every child with special needs in Haiti would receive the therapy and support that they need and deserve because they are VISIBLE and VALUED as members of their society; that nationals would be trained and equipped to be therapists; and that therapy would be recognized as a medical necessity and thus be integrated into Haiti’s medical systems.
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