About

FOUNDER

Hello: My Name is John Edmondson.

Pure Compassion Ministries is simply me working to do the job outlined in the purpose of this ministry. This website is an introduction to what we are currently doing and why; and an invitation for you to participate in this work. I am so pleased to be able to show you this Web Site. I will let it explain the work we are doing, and hope it will enable you to decide if you will help. So, Welcome!

THE PROGRAM

In order to keep overhead low and our ability to deliver help flexible and timely, I partner with faith based ministries (like Orphans Unlimited or Iris Ministries) and other humanitarian aid organizations (such as UNICEF, Americares, and Proctor & Gamble). Rather than spend my available time raising money to support overheads of an organization, I spend it raising funds to directly supply these groups with special products for delivery directly to the people who need it. Once enough is raised to economically deliver a load to people in need, I coordinate the transit, regulatory and communication agents to make delivery possible. I arrange for the purchase and distribution of the products through these organizations, who are already ‘on the ground’ and committed to long-term, on-going support of the people who will receive this aid.

When you contribute, we are working together to supply efforts already in process by legitimate small groups or ministries that have trouble doing everything needed for their projects on their own and within their budgets. We are helping to share in their burden of relief aid, health and housing, education and other basics which together change people’s lives toward health, prosperity and the hope of happiness. These are things we often take for granted, but they are great blessings to those who lack the building blocks to ‘make it so’.

My own first efforts a number of years ago were in supplying building materials to Kosovo so houses could be rebuilt before winter came after the war there. God gave us partners in Samaritan’s Purse, several lumber and building supply corporations, and even the US military, who made it possible for the safe, black-market free transportation of the goods to exactly where they were needed and for whom they were intended. This was a miracle! It was a model which I have returned to after working with committees and trying to work directly as an employee of various church, para-church or aid organizations. Too much of people’s contributions go to raising more money; as happened in Sri Lanka after the tsunami and New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, too much of funds raised never reach the people for whom they were intended, or not in time to meet their basic needs in crisis; and massive amounts of time are required to raise and manage such funds! Being too direct to do that, I elected to return to the model of Kosovo, a single person setting out to do a job when it was needed to get some practical help to those who needed it and in time for their need. It is thrilling and rewarding work!

There are people in crisis in our world every day. So there is no shortage of folks who need our help. There are also ministries and groups all around the world who are set up, already raising the staffing budgets, and are committed to specific local communities for the long haul. Pure Compassion Ministries acts as an independent agent who supports these ministries & groups by supplying critical access to products that are either outside their mandates, beyond their budgets, or outside their staffing ability to procure. These products support basic physical needs and are supplied by people setting a Christ-like example of active spiritual life.