Agape Child Community Sponsorship (ACCS)

Agape Child Community Sponsorship is the avenue that allows us to connect a needy child with a loving sponsor to bring hope into hopeless situations.  For every child that passes through our program, our goal, as a first priority, is always that they would be evangelized.  The next two important aspects that our program focuses on is to educate and equip Uganda’s next generation to impact their families and communities.  And our final target that our ACCS staff makes sure that each child that leaves our program is empowered.  We pray that each child is empowered to recognize who they are in Christ, who He says they are, what He says they can become, and to know that they are loved.  We want each child to feel empowered by His love and to use the resources given by God to become world changers in their school, community, family, and in their professions.

The Cronen’s Sponsorship Story…

When most people think about sponsorship they often believe that sponsoring a child is a one-sided relationship.  I give $40 a month so the child's life that I sponsor will be changed.  They are confident that this child will receive an education, medical care, spiritual development, mentorship, and support.  This is, in fact, a beautiful reality of sponsorship but on its own is incomplete. Sponsorship has the power to change the life of the sponsor just as much as the child receiving aid. 

Our family grew that day.  Our hearts grew in love that day.  Our care and concern for two more human beings grew that day.  Our prayer life grew that day.  Our generosity grew that day.  Our desire to see these two little girls grow up to be healthy, educated, Jesus loving young women grew that day.  When Breanna and I welcomed our biological daughters into the world we did so with the understanding that they were not the first children God gave us to love.  It’s hard to say who has been more blessed in this relationship.  Being a sponsor through AICM has taught us to look beyond our community and raised an awareness of how life is in another part of the world.  Being a sponsor has turned us into advocates for other children who don’t have the opportunities so readily available to us in the U.S.  

Since then, we have added two more sponsor children to our family.  We thank God for the opportunity to play a small part in the lives of these four incredible children.