Christianne Egger

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Christianne Egger

New Faith Family Children's Home

Cainta, Philippines

Years in Ministry

Calling & Mission

To model Christ in every day life, in how I serve, teach, and disciple our children, so that they might believe in and have a true relationship with Christ. To reflect God's love and grace in every situation that they might know and believe that they were created with purpose and loved by Him unconditionally.

About Our Work

New Faith Family Children’s Home exists to provide abandoned, surrendered, dependent, abused and neglected children with a safe, loving, and faith-centered home. A Christ-centered haven and home that provides our children's various needs essential for their physical, emotional, spiritual, and educational growth. My role is to help make our children feel at home and part of the New Faith family. Living life with the children, I have the opportunity and responsibility to model Christ's love and grace in everyday situations. It is my prayer that they would truly know God's love for them and have a relationship with Him.

How God Called Me

I first visited the Philippines in 2006 on a family trip. While visiting the province that my grandfather grew up in, we brought food and supplies to a nearby orphanage. During that trip, God planted the seed in a nine year old's heart for orphans. I remember learning about Amy Charmichael and thinking one day I want to be like her. After high school, I started reading a lot of missionary biographies, one of them being A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael. In college, I studied Business Management because I was very interested in how business can open doors in the mission field. On a study break one day I searched in Google “volunteer Christian orphanage Philippines”. That’s when I first learned about KIDS International Ministries. But it was the middle of Covid, and I was still in school, so I just bookmarked the page. Upon graduating college, I started a business doing home organizing, but after a few years I still felt the call to serve children. I was staring at KIDS’ website one day deep in thought when my older brother asked me what was up. We then talked about missions and I told him I don’t feel like I’m good enough to be a missionary. That’s when he reminded me “God uses the weak things of the world”. Right then I sent an email to KIDS, and two months later, February of 2024, I visited for the first time. I thought I would stay for one or two months to check it out. I stayed for four. Every day I would visit the children’s home and quickly fell in love. One day Director Norman Denler said to me “I have an idea” and asked me if I would be interested in moving to New Faith to serve as the caregiver for the teenage girls. I said “yes!". I went home for the summer and then moved into New Faith in September of 2024.

A day in my life

Every day looks different for me. As a caregiver in both Selah (girls’ home) and Region 4:12 (boys’ home), I have the privilege of getting to be with all of our children at New Faith.

Some mornings start around 4:30 am to get the girls ready for school, shower, fix their hair and uniforms, eat breakfast and then walk (or drive when it's raining) to school. Some days involve driving the children to various outings. I also drive our social workers when needed for fieldwork and accompany the children for medical appointments, court hearings, and meet ups. Once a week we go to the market to buy groceries, fruits, vegetables, and meat.

We also regularly attend school functions such as parent teacher conferences, recognition ceremonies for our honor students, graduations and moving up ceremonies. I love getting to watch and listen to our students play for the worship team, sing in the school choir, or perform with their dance team. We also love to support our student athletes by attending their basketball and volleyball competitions.

My days are filled with a lot of laughter. Playing basketball and volleyball with the boys at the court or rooftop. Soccer, kickball and badminton with the girls in the yard. Swimming at the pool. Pushing our toddlers on the swings. Jumping rope and jumping in the trampoline with our small girls. Singing and dancing with the big girls. All of these fill my heart with so much joy.

In the evenings we have dinner together, complete chores, and then help with homework and projects. Some nights we have devotions or worship time. One of the kids will play the guitar, another beat box (cajon), and we just sing. These moments are cherished in my heart. It is so sweet to hear all of our children's voices worship our great God together.

Lately I've enjoyed covering shifts with our newest admission, a baby from Adonai Home. There is something so precious about holding a newborn. Life can be stressful at times, but the Lord blesses me with the sweetest snuggles and hugs from our children to help me find peace, calm, and joy every day.

His Faithfulness

Since the time I first set foot at New Faith, there have been so many changes.

In the summer of 2024, the boys moved into their new home. This marked the start of two homes, Region 4:12 (the boys' home) and House of Selah (the girls' home). Two homes, one family.

At the beginning of 2025, our toddlers came back to live at New Faith. It was very sweet to see our older children welcome back the little ones.

In two years we welcomed 31 new children.

We also said goodbye to 15 children. These children were reunited with their biological families, fostered, adopted, or transitioned to our independent living program.

Each time a child leaves is bittersweet. We rejoice with each child as they go to live with their family. Not knowing if we will see a child again makes the goodbyes hard, but each time is an opportunity to trust God's perfect plan.

The reality is we do not know how many years, months, or days we have left with each child. So please pray for us, for our director, social workers, home life, and caregivers, that our work would leave an eternal impact on the hearts of every child who comes to call New Faith their home.

"For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations." Psalm 100:5

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 -- For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

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