About Us

Eric, Beth, Adriana,Micah

It was the summer of 2007 when God started placing a burden for orphans and needy people on our hearts. In fact, Eric came home from work one day and said, “I am getting sick of this greedy, selfish, busy culture that we live in. I want to sell everything we have and move overseas to start an orphanage. Get out of this Godless society and start doing things that will matter for eternity.” Obviously, we didn’t do that, yet!

However, we had the opportunity to have dinner with Eric’s Uncle Tom and Aunt Marilynn, who are missionaries in South Africa, during Christmas of 2007. We discussed our desires to sell everything and start an orphanage overseas. When we were finished, they asked us if we knew anything about the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, PA. Until that time, we didn’t know anything about it.

The Milton Hershey School is a cost-free, private, co-educational home and school for children from families of low income, limited resources, and social need. The School is funded by a trust established by Milton S. Hershey and his wife Catherine. Milton Hershey School offers a positive, structured home life year-round and an excellent pre-kindergarten through 12th grade education. Their vision focuses on building character and providing children with the skills necessary to be successful in all aspects of life.

Their students live on campus and are on a year-round program. So the student home and house parents, married couples, are at the core of each child’s stability and safety while they are here. The house parents provide guidance, support, and discipline while encouraging contact with the children’s parents/sponsors through phone calls, e-mail, and visits.

Eric and I had to see the school for ourselves, so we contacted Tom and Marilynn’s supporters, who are house parents at the school, and decided to go down and visit them. So we met John and Dorris Eisenhower and the girls in their student home. After the first visit, Eric and I felt like this was the place God wanted us to be. We kept looking on-line for an opening for house parents and in June of 2008 there was a job posting. We applied, excitedly, but were informed the following day that everything looked good, but our kids were too young. The school wanted the oldest child to be 5 years old or older.

Confused and lost to why God had placed this burden on our hearts but not allowing us to do anything about it yet was getting frustrating for the both of us. A few months went by and in September of 2008, God began to open up other doors of opportunity. By this time, we were in full swing of looking for a different job for Eric.

Soon thereafter, a network marketer shared with Eric a home based business opportunity that he felt God strongly lead him to accept. As we joined and explored the idea more, God began to show us that this was going to be one of the “how” or “means” He wanted us to use to fund things that He would place on our heart.

It was also at this time that God revealed the “what” to us. As we began to see the potential of making a significant income with this company God began to place on Eric and my heart to fund an orphanage. So we began to pray in this direction.

Surfing the web one day, God brought me to the Home Business Success Academy. This program offered quality training to successfully market anything on and off the net. Somehow I knew this was truly the tool God placed in my hands to be successful in our business.

As we began to work through my classes I started to realize the vast possibility and responsibility God was placing on our laps! God was showing me an avenue to make unbelievable amounts of money! I grew excited and wanted to share my buried treasure with Christians who had the same passion and desire. On February 6, 2009 God led me to create a facebook group called Build On The Rock Ministries to unite Christians together that shared the same vision and desire that God had placed on our heart to build, run, and empower people to construct Christian orphanages, clinics, feed hungry children, and fund “humanly impossible deep desires.

Build On The Rock Ministries was set up for people of action. It is a safe place where they can share the dreams God has placed on their heart and have the opportunity to give financially or be the one we will be sending. It is a group that prays and encourages each other with scripture. This group also promotes this group to their friends that have the same desires and gives out information to all their friends and family that will enable us to construct and empower the “Build On The Rock Ministries” projects. As of May 11, 2009 the Build On The Rock Ministries have 292 members and continue to add members daily. Since then, God has led us to incorporate this ministry and set it up as a non-profit organization, which we are now in the process of doing . On April 20, 2009 we appointed the following 6 members to be our administrative committee to keep us accountable and to help give us ideas and wisdom on all our decisions.

Our new mission statement is this: Whereas, it is the expressed by God in His Word, that “Pure and faultless religion is to look after orphans and widows in their distress” James 1:27. In accordance to this, He commands and empowers us, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.”Mark 16:15 and “To preach good news to the poor, bind up the broken hearted, proclaim freedom to captives!” Isaiah 61:1

With this being our foundational motive, the members of Build On The Rock Ministries, are enjoined to assemble themselves together to globally empower Christians to construct and maintain Christian children’s homes and coeducational institutes that will spiritually nurture homeless children through the age of 18 years of age with the Word of God and educate these children in a social, mental, physical, and financial need so that they can lead a fulfilling and productive life. These projects will be funded by grants, fundraising projects and personal donations.

As of May 17th, 2009 Eric and I have not seen much success in our online endeavors to yet share with anyone a honest key to unlock the online treasure. However, Eric and I have set up a home based business called, BuiltOnTheRock, LLC and have opened First Kids Furniture. We believe and pray that this will be one of the means that God will use to bring Eric home so we can full time focus on funding projects for Build On The Rock Ministries.

With God’s love and Expecting Great Things From God.
God Bless you.
Eric and Beth Shoop

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