About Us
La Aljaba is a children's home located at the southern most tip of Colombia in the city of Leticia, which resides along the Amazon River. We have been serving children and families of the Amazonas Region of Colombia for that last 15 years. .
La Aljaba is a children's home located at the southern most tip of Colombia in the city of Leticia, which resides along the Amazon River. We have been serving children and families of the Amazonas Region of Colombia for that last 15 years. .
Who We Are |
We provide for children from 5 to 17 years of age in situations of extreme poverty or need. We offer assistance in four development areas: physical, cognitive, spiritual and emotional well-being. Currently we provide a full day care, tutoring, daily nutritional meals for 80 children and provide 24 hour care for 26 children. We also extend our reach to the community by providing family counseling and parenting classes monthly, sending daily food rations to 100 children who live in extreme poverty on the edge of the jungle, and helping other children’s ministries 50 miles up and down the Amazon River.
La Aljaba is able to continually move forward financially because of the help of our partner ministry, Orphanos. Orphanos is based in Memphis, Tennessee and helps raise awareness and financial needs to keep our ministry up and running. |
Our Mission |
La Aljaba Children’s home is an institution that assists abandoned and impoverished children to improve their quality of life, by giving them the opportunity to benefit from integral development and to contribute to new generations with Christian principles and values.
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Our Vision
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La Aljaba is inspired by God's love and obeying His calling. "We will impact the Amazon community by teaching Christian values and principles to the children for future generations."
La Aljaba is a home for children that embodies our commitment towards the call from God that says in the Bible: “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it” Prov. 22:6 (NIV). |
Our Beliefs |
The triune nature of the Godhead; one God existing as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; one in nature and unity, yet three in being.
The Deity of Jesus Christ; He is God Himself, and is eternally existed, possessing all power and knowledge; born into this world from the Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit; is, at the same time, true God and true Man. The Divine inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible, Old and New Testament; that the Bible is the divine Word of God and, in so being, is without error in its original text and is of supreme and final authority in faith and life. Man was created in the image of God, sinned, and, thereby, was separated from God; each person born is separated from God by a sin nature with which he/she is born, and, in this condition, is unable by personal effort to be reconciled to God. The Lord Jesus was crucified as an atonement for sins and, according to Scripture, served as the only possible substitute sacrifice able to sufficiently pay the penalty each human being otherwise must pay for his/her sins; those humans who place their faith in the fact that Jesus Christ served as the sacrifice which paid the penalty he/she should have paid for his/her sins, thereby, is reconciled to the living God and justified on the ground of Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross. The third day after the death of Jesus Christ, He bodily arose from the dead, according to Scripture, for the new life of man, and He is now physically seated at the right-hand of God the Father as the High Priest and Advocate of all believers. The imminent return to earth of the Jesus Christ to reign as Savior and Ruler of the Universe. The bodily resurrection of the dead, the just to eternal life with God, and the unjust to eternal separation from God. |