KidCare America began out of a need in the inner city of New York City. As US Missionaries Mike and Nancy Ferguson were called to plant a church in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a community of nearly 250,000 people from a mile radius of the front door of the church.
Within two years of the church opening, Mike and Nancy quickly knew they needed to get ahead of the problem facing their community. They likened their church to running ambulance service at the bottom of a cliff after people through the course of their life climb to the top. However, once at the top because of poverty, poor decision making, drugs and alcohol, fell from the top to the bottom broken, bruised and battered.
Trinity Assembly of God, the church Mike and Nancy pastored, would pick them up in the ambulance only to see more people fall. It dawned on the Ferguson's that instead of just running an ambulance service at the bottom that their team needed to climb to the top and build a fence. The fence they built was a mentoring after-school ministry.
It was so successful that some national leadership asked Mike and Nancy to lead an initiative to help others do what they had done across the United States. In 2001 KidCare America National was birthed.
For nearly 20 years Nancy has overseen after-school programming while Mike has provided organizational leadership and fundraising help to hundreds.
