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Pictured above is Virginia Woods, the founder of Alliance for Children Everywhere, with Annie in the House of Moses.

Alliance for Children Everywhere

Alliance for Children Everywhere (ACE), a 501 (c)(3) Christian nonprofit organization, was founded, under the name House of Samuel, in 1969. In its initial 31 years of ministry, the organization served thousands of children across three continents—North America, Central and South America, and Africa. The scope of services ACE provided spans from projects in Native American Reservations, orphanages, schools, to street-children ministry in the worst slums of the world.

In entering the 21st Century, ACE has assumed the role of a catalyst that brings people, organizations and churches together under the direction of the Gospel to facilitate help for needy children.

It is through this empowerment model of linking people and resources together that ACE will expand its ministry in reaching destitute children.

Our Mission

Under the direction of the Gospel, bring people of all ages together from diverse organizations and churches so that orphans and vulnerable children can be nurtured in healthy families, churches, schools and communities.

ACE History

• 1969-1976: Native American Reservations
  ACE provided emergency care for children in crisis who were referred by missionaries, local churches and personal workers within the Arizona Apache and Navajo Nations.
• 1973-1995: Child Placement Agency
  ACE (House of Samuel at that time) established a State approved agency to place children at risk into Christian homes.
• 1976-1989: Residential Campus and School
  As the House of Samuel, ACE opened a group home (45 children) and a school (65 children) for children with special needs and a 13 acre campus.
• 1984-present: Guatemala, Central America
  Pioneered a child welfare ministry in partnership with Iglesia Verbo in Guatemala, Central America. The ministry is now entirely operated within country. ACE continues to provide administrative support and consultation.
• 1989-1991: Peru
  Pioneered a child welfare ministry in Iquitos, Peru. Operated a group home and adoption program.
• 1997: Zambian partnership established