Dream Home

April 21.


Today I was greatly encouraged.

We didn’t know exactly what the day would entail,
but we knew that we were going to a far part of the city to visit an orphanage.

After more than an hour long rickshaw ride in the morning heat, through the traffic and eventually out of the city, down some windy roads and dusty turns, we arrived at:
Dream Home.

We met Aaron and Gloria.
This lovely couple has a two-floored simple house and serves the Lord with it.
“From the hour we got married,
we decided that anywhere we go,
wherever we are,
we will do ministry.”

They are now mother and father to 15 children, all orphans.
And the children all have one thing in common, they have lost both their parents to AIDS.
Aaron and Gloria are from the coast, but moved inland 4 years ago to volunteer at a Christian HIV and AIDS clinic.
After 7 months of working as a counsellor for HIV positive people,
Aaron shared his vision with the doctor who runs the clinic.

“We want to provide a home for the children whose parents have died from AIDS.
When the grandmothers and uncles and aunts will not take them in, we will take them in.”

The children themselves have not contracted the virus, they are HIV negative, but they have lost both their parents from it.

Three years ago, they started Dream Home.
A big simple house they rent and live in,
and provide a refuge, opportunity, and the love of Christ.
The first year they had dream home, they received 2 children,
a pair of brothers, whos parents had died.
The next year they received a few more, and now,
in their third year, they have 15.

“Do you have any children of your own?” I asked them,
“They feel like they are all our own!!” Aaron responds.
They really do love them.
And the children are so grateful, it really is a dream home for them.
They have been taken out of dire situations, and placed into a family of love and peace,
with two parents at home whose main priority is the children.


It was amazing to see.
Two faithful, loving people, with hearts committed for the glory of God, using their skills and talents to give hope and life to the full.
Gloria is excelling as a housewife.
She cooks, she cleans, she tidies, she loves.
I’ve never seen such a tidy house.
This is a strong and important statement!
In the three months we’ve been in India, I have not seen a tidy house!

Everything is clean, there are gorgeous potted plants on the walls outside, and hallways are swept and beds are made. Each child has their own bed!

Aaron, is a gentle, dedicated man with a gruff beard, with a heart that is humble and close to God. He is a good leader, and is trained as a teacher, and did some theological degree as well.

Things are organized, the children speak English very well, and they play so well with each other. It’s kind of like having a classroom... 15 children is a full-time job!

Aaron and Gloria’s vision is to continue to take in children and grow them up in the ways of the Lord. Their house has enough room for 20 children, so they can take 5 more.
But the house runs on donations and people supporting them, so they say,
when the money is there, we will take more children, if it is not there, then we wait.

They also want to have another house, but this one for HIV positive children, who have contracted the virus from their parents. These children will need more special care, such as a special diet to keep immune system levels high, and also being more careful with scrapes and cuts.

If they mixed the HIV negative and postive children together in one house,
the other children would become jealous because they wouldn’t understand why some where getting different food, and more special care.
Not to mention precautions with cuts, scrapes, and wounds.

So they are looking for a house so they can start taking care of the positive orphans as well.

Words cannot describe how hopeful and thankful I was when I met these two individuals, and their children they have taken in as their own,
using what they have to pour out a better life to these children.

I was so encouraged to see that there are people like this, who are dedicated and stay for the long haul, to be the mother and father to the parentless.

They don’t advertise their needs, or go on support-raising excursions,
they are just people of prayer, and see God provide the finance through a few families knowing about them and giving.
I was so excited to tell my friends and family back home about them, because I think it is a very worthy and trustworthy cause.

I don’t know anything about how much it costs Dream Home to live every month, or how much it costs to take in another child, as he wasn’t concerned about seeing us as white people to support their work. He didn’t even elude to it. We just got to spend time with the children, play with them, and be with them as a family.

But if you are interested in supporting them though, or
If you have been looking into wanting to give to something or something like this,
or want to learn more about them living life as everyday ministry,
I have his email, it’s
aaron.jakkula@gmail.com

I’m sure the whole family would be very encouraged by people they have never met,
from other nations and across the seas,
taking interest in them.
They are so cute!

Just had to spread the word about Dream Home,
a simple little house on the outskirts of Hyderabad,
with a whole lotta love.