Who we are?

One Changed Life is a 501 (c)(3) organization that was founded in 2010 by Josh and Jill Quaade while they were adopting their second eldest daughter who is from Ethiopia. We are managed by a board of six Christian men and women who feel called to love people without borders in the name of Jesus Christ.

Our mission is to minister to men, women, and children by caring for and feeding both the spiritual and physical body in hopes of having lives changed in Christ and providing hope for the future, one life at a time.

We began partnered with Resurrection Orphan and Widows Service, our in-country sister organization that facilitates our Christian Child Sponsorship Program and Widows Empowerment Ministry.

As time has progressed and policies have changed in Ethiopia, a second sister organization, Lifegate Evangelical Ministry was founded to provide Bible study education for our sponsorship children, humanitarian aid (food, clothes, sanitation, and medical help) as well as Bible study and discipleship programs to predominantly street boys and men, but also street girls and women in search of respite.

In Ethiopia, the teams working directly with the children are directed by Ewenetu Demisee, a past troubled kid who shared much of the street kid lifestyle in Ethiopia, who knows personally, the amazing changing and healing power of Jesus Christ.