On July 4, 2000, the Child Rescue Centre (CRC) was opened in Bo, Sierra Leone under the direction of Rev. John Yambasu and in cooperation with the Sierra Leone Conference of the United Methodist Church. The Sierra Leone UMC took the CRC into the structure of the United Methodist Church and has provided guidance and advocacy for the children. Bishop Humper brought people together in Africa and in the United States with a common goal to help the war-traumatized children of his country. The product of this is a well-respected children's facility that provides a life-saving and life-changing environment for these children.

The CRC consists of a residential home that houses, feeds, clothes and educates seventy children in a loving and safe environment. In addition to these seventy residential children, the Child Rescue Centre also supports 150 additional children living in family settings, by paying their school tuition, providing school uniforms, purchasing school supplies and providing health care. These children receive assistance from the CRC while continuing to live at home with their families or caretakers. Additionally, 30 children are being placed with loving foster care families and will receive education, healthcare and food support from the CRC.

Since 2003, eight churches in Virginia and Texas have come together in a CRC Partnership to support the children of the CRC. These churches are Braddock Street UMC in Winchester, VA, Ebenezer UMC in Stafford, VA, First UMC, in Colleyville, TX, Floris UMC in Herndon, VA, Galilee UMC in Sterling, VA, Oakton UMC in Oakton, VA and St. Stephen's UMC in Burke, VA and Woodlake UMC in Richmond, VA. Each church is dedicated to serving some of the most vulnerable of God’s children while themselves being blessed by the joy and hope these CRC children bring. Other churches and organizations interested in helping the children are welcome to the partnership.

A non-profit organization called Helping Children Worldwide, which is supportive and committed to the war-affected children of Sierra Leone, works to provide programming and fund-raising activities in support of the CRC. Community wide fundraisers supported by the Partnership and local community leaders alike have raised funding for on-going CRC operations. Local CRC advocates plan to continue these activities with ongoing fundraising efforts and grant seeking.

All eight partnership churches have sent representatives on mission teams to visit the CRC in Sierra Leone. This has helped introduce the churches to the children and staff of the CRC. In addition, they helped with the construction of a complex of buildings that will house educational space, a larger CRC dormitory and an auditorium.

In the summer of 2007, four 40-foot containers filled with critical medical supplies, school supplies and other necessities were filled by a combined effort of the partnership and many others in the community. These containers provided items that would have been prohibitively expensive to purchase in an inflationary, post-war environment. Two of the containers provided medical equipment and supplies needed to open Mercy Hospital.

Programs are managed by a staff who reflect the love and compassion so needed by the children. The children are healthy, thriving and filled with an exuberance that each team found remarkable given their former trauma.

In August of 2006 the children moved into a new complex of buildings. These buildings were provided by the North Georgia Conference of the UMC. The children now have much more living space and outdoor space to run and play. This new complex includes a new dormitory, with new dining, kitchen, educational and administrative space. Ultimately, this will allow three times the current number of children and increase the capacity of all service areas. Now that the children have moved, the previous CRC building will become a primary and maternity care hospital.. This will serve the community health needs of thousands of people in the Bo around the CRC.

Beyond meeting the basic needs of life, one of the most important ways to help protect and nurture the future generation of leaders of Sierra Leone is to provide education and life skills. The U.S. advocates of the CRC see this as a mission to serve humanity at its most fundamental level.

In June of 2007 the first CRC youth will graduate from Senior Secondary School. Over the next three years, 14 more students will graduate. A Scholarship Fund has been established through Helping Children Worldwide to pay for university and trade education.