Sam Childers Quotes

United States, Activist
January 1, 1963

Sam Childers (born 1963) is a former Outlaws member who now dedicates his life and resources to rescue children in the war zone of South Sudan. Childers and his wife Lynn founded and operate Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village Orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, where they currently have more than 300 children in their care. In 2013 he received the Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice.

Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

Sam Childers
- Children
- Night
- City
I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

Sam Childers
- Time
- Children
- Rest

I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

Sam Childers
- People
- Up
- Time
I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.

Sam Childers
- People
- Hope
- Man
Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

Sam Childers
- America
- Bad
- Want
I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Sam Childers
I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.

Sam Childers
- Should
- Times
- Hundred