Janet Helms: Healing the Orphaned Heart

Janet Helms is the Founder and  Director of Orphaned Heart Ministries.She is a recent graduate of Trinity School for Ministry and longtime member of Church of the Ascension in Pittsburgh, PA, has been helping orphans in Uganda since 2001 through a kinship model. Janet is Married to Worth Helms and they live together in Pittsburgh.

In 2006, she started working with students from Uganda Christian University (UCU) to bring psychological and spiritual healing to those who have been orphaned by AIDS, polygamy, violence, and abandonment. She helped students to form a spiritual family through sharing their stories, praying for each other, studying Scripture, and  doing ministry together.

Janet has also written a book titled Healing the Orphaned Heart and is working on a second book that includes many testimonies of ther power of her healing message and ministry. Today Janet also discusses the power of purpose in her life and in those of her team in Uganda.