Tom Eggum has over thirty-six years of experience devoting his life to making a difference to children and communities around the world that have been suffering from extreme poverty and disease through various life-saving projects. Hope 4 Kids International reaches out to those in the greatest need by bringing necessary care to children with the mission of sharing God’s hope through dignity, health, joy and love.  Hope 4 Kids strives to rescue and restore these poverty-stricken villages by leading teams on exciting, life-changing two-week mission trips equipped with practical provisions to kids in rural areas, needy hospitals and orphanages. H4KI sponsors over 1500 AIDS orphans and needy children from Africa, India, Peru and Romania and gives sponsors at least one opportunity a year to travel to meet their sponsored orphan. Their most prominent project is in Uganda where they are digging wells, building churches and medical clinics and opened up a 66-bed hospital.  Under their Water 4 Kids division, Hope 4 Kids opened up fourteen wells this summer bringing fresh safe water to over 100,000 people from seventy villages. Tom leads teams to these projects to both directly impact the lives of children they reach out to as well as to change the lives of the team members by developing a transformational experience for each individual to use their life to make a difference in this world.

Tom Eggum started out sitting in a college classroom reading about the struggles in the Soviet Union who suffered silently behind the Iron Curtain. He took matters into his own hands and began to smuggle suitcases full of Bibles in to the Soviet Union until 1981 when he was caught, arrested and blacklisted by the KGB.  He had his visa revoked and was forbidden to enter the Soviet Union for five years. Instead of standing on the sidelines, he took six trips into Communist China and Vietnam with contraband medicine, antibiotics, clothes and shoes. From these-altering experiences, he founded Hope 4 Kids International. Currently, Hope 4 Kids has been in over ninety-seven countries bringing hope and necessary care to every child they serve.  For more information on how you can become a difference maker, join Tom Eggum at Fellowship Church located at 39905 North Gavilan Peak Parkway in Anthem or visit their website at www.h4ki.org for international trips, child sponsorship or donation opportunities.