About Wiphan

Our beginning is beautiful, bittersweet and personal. The heart of Wiphan Care began in the hearts of a pastoral couple in Zambia—Timothy and Kunda. Early in marriage this couple devoted their hearts and lives to the poverty stricken compound community in Ndola, Zambia. Timothy, being a pastor, had the opportunity to travel to America where he not only made a friend but a brother in Christ while he stayed in the home of the Jones family. Timothy returned home and the friendship of he and his American brother was a bond that could and would never be broken. Years later, Timothy passed away—yet his American brother continued to support Timothy’s family enabling his widow and children to survive and even attend school.

Kunda, now a widow, developed a new passion and heart for other widows and orphaned children in the community who did not have the help she was receiving—and with whatever she had left over she shared with the widows and children in the compound. The compounds are filled with hundreds of mud homes, with hundreds of widows and orphans due to HIV/AIDS. Overwhelmed by compassion, Kunda was given a vision to help the widows and children she now knew and to become a source of income for them—she shared this vision with her husband’s American brother half way across the world. Out of loss, came joy—and Wiphan (WI= widows +PHAN= orphans) Care Ministries was born.

Today, Wiphan Care Ministries is run by the local Wiphan Board in Zambia as well as an American support board in North Atlanta. Both teams work together in hopes of drawing not only the Zambia people to Christ- but also Americans who feel led to join us on this beautiful journey. Together, we desire to give the hopeless hope and follow James 1:27 to “look after widows and orphans in their distress.”