Our Programs

Shadow of His Wings provides homes to children from a variety of backgrounds - including physical and sexual abuse, neglect, abandonment, human trafficking, and/or the loss of both parents. Our goal is to raise these children in a way that they can find peace and experience the healing love of Jesus Christ.  What Makes Us Unique: Our children live in family units, with Christian parents. The boys and girls at Shadow of His Wings live in family units with Guatemalan couples and their biological children, plus up to 12 children from the Home (following the model of Christ and His 12 disciples). This gives our children the experience of being part of a loving family - sometimes the first time in their lives!  Our transition program. Having seen the need for our kids to gain more real world experiences, our transition program provides the opportunity for our young people to learn how to get and keep a job, manage a budget, do their own shopping, cooking, cleaning, etc. and have much more freedom to be out in the community and make outside friends. They also learn other important life skills such as interviewing, using public transportation, etc.  Our focus on changing the world for Christ. One of the things that surprises people is that our kids, coming from many desperate situations, actively go out into the community to minister to others. Our goal at the James Project is to raise up children who will reach their world for Christ. These children may grow up to be spouses, parents, missionaries, teachers, doctors, lawyers, or whatever else God calls them to, but the family experience they have at Shadow of His Wings will influence them to live their lives for Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit and therefore change their worlds for Christ!  Interesting Facts: Each one of our homes is named after a person in the Bible. We are one of the few accredited homes in Guatemala. We opened our first boy's home in 2014. We accept children from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize. Our first teen pregnancy home, Casa Maria, opened in February 2022.   

The goal of our Church and Community Outreach is to connect with local churches and bring them together for the purpose of creating a community of believers to care for the vulnerable.  Ultimately, if the church assumes the responsibility of caring for the vulnerable, it will lessen the burden of organizations like ours.  When the church is providing care for the single mother, the children of the single mother are less likely to “enter the system”. When the church takes care of the “orphan”, the child is less likely to go hungry, be abused, live on the streets, and fall through the cracks.  When the church does the work of the church, lives and eternities are changed. 

Children deserve healthy families. Unfortunately, this is not the norm for the women ad children we serve. Through our Family Preservation program, we work with the biological families of our children, as well as vulnerable families in the community, to ensure that that are healthy and thriving. This program helps to prevent children needing to be rescued and/or returned into protective custody. 

At James Project, our desire is that the women and children we serve have bright futures and are able to break the cycles of poverty, abuse, and hopelessness. Receiving an education is key to making this happen.  Though our Brighter Futures program, we serve the children that have found refuge at Shadow of His Wings, as well as the women and families we serve through our Redeemed Program. Shadow of His Wings Children's Home All of the children living on the JPLA campus are given the opportunity to receive an education. Our staff is trained in early/infant stimulation, allowing our children to begin learning and developing, right away. We also have a school available on our campus that provides classes for children pre-school through junior high. As our children enter high school, they are allowed to select the 'career' they want to study (as is the norm in Guatemala), and we send them to the appropriate school in the nearby town.  In Guatemala, only a very small percentage (1-2%) of people get to study at an advanced level. At JPLA, we provide scholarships to our students to continue their education, whether it be at a university or a trade school. This provides them the opportunity to drastically improve their future, seek good jobs, provide for their families, and set an example for their own children.  Redeemed Women's Program The vulnerable women and children we serve in the community often have not had the opportunity to study. Therefore, we work with the families we serve to make sure the children in the family are able to go to school and the women are able to go back to school and study, if they so desire. We've had women and children graduate high school through this program. This is something that only approximately 10% of those in Guatemala have been able to accomplish.  Education can set a person and their family on a completely different course for the future. It truly can provide a Brighter Future for generations to come. 

Through our women's program we are helping widows, single mothers, and our older children receive an education and job training so that they can reach their full potential and care for themselves and their children. Through this program, we aim to positively affect the lives of these women and the generations to come.  There are 5 components to this program: Spiritual Development- We focus on ministering to and leading our women to a deeper relationship with Christ. Educational Development– We provide our women with the opportunity to pursue formal education opportunities. Family Development- We help our women become stronger parents and have healthier families. Economic Development– We provide orientation on launching/running a small business, help to develop a business plan, and provide supervision while walking alongside their business launch. Our goal is to ultimately provide economic stability for the women and their families. Health Development- We help our women become physically, mentally and emotional healthy through teaching, training, and professional help.