TIM PETERS OF HELPING HANDS KOREA, FAMILY CARE FOUNDATION & NORTH KOREA'S REFUGEES

PROFILE - HELPING HANDS KOREA

One of the most prominent groups involved with the refugees from North Korea is Helping Hands Korea, founded and managed by Mr. Tim Peters, an American based in Seoul, South Korea.

While Helping Hands Korea and Mr. Tim Peters is and has been featured prominently in Time Magazine, CNN, most of the NGOs listed on this website and even US government hearings, it has come to light that Helping Hands Korea and Mr. Tim Peters are linked to Family Care Foundation.

What is "Family Care Foundation"?

Family Care Foundation, a.k.a. "Family Missionary Fellowship", "The Family International", "The Family", "The Children of God", is a pedophilia cult that promoted and/or still promotes sex with and between children of its adult members. The plethora of names for the group apparently stems from its attempts to avoid detection by law enforcement agencies and to skirt lawsuits brought by the children, who are now adults.

Helping Hands Korea's website asks Americans to donate through Family Care Foundation ("FCF") and Mr. Tim Peters is quoted as admitting his membership in the group, which keeps 10% of the donations to Helping Hands Korea and features Helping Hands Korea and Mr. Tim Peters prominently on its website.

One of the few things more important than helping the most persecuted Christians in the world is glorifying or at least not tarnishing the name of Jesus Christ. If donations to Helping Hands Korea or Mr. Tim Peters end up supporting Family Care Foundation and if Mr. Tim Peters' work through Helping Hands Korea helps to legitimize Family Care Foundation or any other name linked to a pedophile cult, then that work is not of God.

North Korean Christians.com emailed Mr. Tim Peters and asked him to clarify his relationship with Family Care Foundation. Not having heard back from him, this page had to be presented, not without sadness. If Mr. Tim Peters responds in the future and severs his relationship with Family Care Foundation, this page will be updated accordingly (If you would like to be emailed regarding this or other updates on this website, please feel free to click here and email). Excerpt of the email sent to Mr. Tim Peters is copied below.


Dear Mr. Peters:

Greetings in Christ.

While the majority of content in the public domain about you and Helping Hands Korea is understandably favorable, some concerns have been raised about the Family Care Foundation (a.k.a. Family Missionary Fellowship, The Children of God, The Family International, The Family, etc.) through which your website asks Americans to donate (http://www.helpinghandskorea.org/howtohelp.htm), and whose website features you prominently (http://www.familycare.org/network/p01.htm).

In addition, the following source - http://www.exfamily.org/hist/pseudonyms_footnotes.shtml - quotes you as follows:

"Yes, I do have FM status in the Family Missionary Fellowship... As another matter of record, mention of the Family Missionary Fellowship as an integral part of my missionary training has been stated by me in several prominent interviews, including NEWSWEEK, Feb. 7th, 2001 (regional East Asian edition). I also mentioned it in a long interview that was published with one of the primary English dailies here several years ago... OK, to sum up, I'm FM and proud to be so..."

"I am a tentmaker lay missionary who has supported his family with a modest day job for years and moonlights as an NGO volunteer that works to feed the hungry and attempts to rescue the persecuted and downtrodden in very dangerous circumstances. After considerable research into other foundations, I have found that the 10% that the Family Care Foundation uses for its administrative expenses is considered frugal by any measure.”

Those considering contributing to the Lord’s work in North Korea through Helping Hands Korea would be grateful for your responses to a few questions intended put to rest the concerns raised:

What is your history and relationship, both past and present, with Family Care Foundation / Family Missionary Fellowship / The Children of God / The Family International any other name by which this group may be known?

What is your opinion on this (these) group(s)’ condoning or even promoting sex between minors or between minors and adults among its members?

Do the two quotes above accurately reflect your statements? If not, could you please provide the correct versions?

Does Family Care Foundation still take 10% of the amounts donated to Helping Hands Korea through Family Care Foundation? If a cheaper option could be found for Helping Hands Korea, would you switch away from Family Care Foundation?

The other organizations like Voice of the Martyrs and Open Doors disclose their financial statements. Are Helping Hands Korea’s financial statements available online as well? If not, could you please provide one?

Thank you.

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