Method School Planting Headquarters Georgia, United States Type of business Faith Based | Area served World Wide Key people Kells Weatherby II Founded 1990 | |
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Founder Kells and Elizabeth Weatherby Focus Children, Education, & Poverty | ||
Feed My Lambs, Inc. is a non-profit grass-roots ministry located in Marietta, GA, founded in 1990 in Atlanta, GA by Kells & Elizabeth Weatherby. Feed My Lambs provides tuition-free Christian preschools and grade schools for children living in impoverished areas of Atlanta, GA; Liberia, Africa; and Piedras Negras and Nava, Mexico. They are currently operating 11 schools, serving approximately 900 children. During the Christmas season, FML also holds “Happy Birthday Jesus” parties in the school communities as well as local prisons.
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History
Feed My Lambs opened its first school in Marietta in 1990, gaining its legal status as a non-profit organization in April 1992 and is overseen by a Board of Directors with 8 members.
Schools
It is the mission of Feed My Lambs to open academies in high-risk communities to educate the children and their families about a better way of life. Their academies are schools of excellence and are funded solely by donations from individuals, businesses, and churches.
Currently Feed My Lambs, Inc. (FML) is operating 11 schools serving approximately 900 children: two in the Atlanta area (two more pending locations); three in Liberia, Africa; two in Northern Mexico. These schools are “safe havens” for children in need. Feed My Lambs has a waiting list for most of their Atlanta community schools, with the Atlanta Housing Authority requesting FML to open even more schools.
Mexico
Kells and Elizabeth Weatherby began working on a school in a township of Piedras Negras, Mexico called El Eden more than ten years ago. Today the school has received recognition from the state government for education. Also, the Nava school, whose construction began in 2003, opened with two buildings in the Fall of 2007.
Liberia, Africa
Feed My Lambs has a school in Ganta, one in Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia, and a Paynesville City school, all directed by Benjamin and Mandu Tomah.
Happy Birthday Jesus parties
During the Christmas season, FML also holds Christmas parties, in which they celebrate Christmas with children in these same communities, as well as local prisons. During these parties, each child receives a sweatshirt, a gift bag filled with special gifts of winter wear, toys, candy, and educational items, along with a hot meal. There is a program with singing and dancing.
Parties are held around the Metro Atlanta area, West Virginia, Mexico, and Africa. This year, their first African Christmas party was held in Nairobi, Kenya. It was very well received there with approximately 3,000 children in attendance. In the last several years, these parties have served over 11,000 children and their families.