December 12, 2025 • 16 mins
Thanks to you and your generosity, we were able to raise $55,000 plus for Orphan Shade to build house number six in Malawi. To learn about this wonderful ministry, give this a listen.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
All right, friends, it's the second hour The Morning Show
with Preston Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Preston. He is Jose.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
December first. It just it just sounds good, doesn't it.
I know, I know the year has gone by way.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Too fast, but just feels right.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And so we transition now from Operation Thanksgiving to Spirit
of Christmas and I am joined on the program by
the co founder of Orphan Shade. He is our friend,
Jay Shirlow.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Jay, how are you good morning?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
How are you sir?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm doing terrific all things considered. And I shared the
news with everybody kind of where we are. But for
those that don't know much about Orphan Shade, they've heard
me talk about it a little bit. I thought it
would be useful to kind of reset where this all
began for you and how this program and ministry started.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Sure well, in two thousand and fifteen, I live in Houston, Texas.
I had an interesting character come across my path. The
gentleman was a pastor from the country of Malawi. Malawi's
in Sub Saharan Africa, and I got to know him
(01:33):
and over about a year and a half, we developed
a relationship and as part of that relationship, the Lord
started speaking to both of us about a ministry to
orphans that live in Malawi, and so he when he
(01:53):
departed to go back to his country, he invited me
for a visit and I said, yes, Sir, I'm coming.
And so I had my eyes opened about what life
is like for people in Malawi. It's one of the
poorest countries in the world, has a population of about
twenty million people and about one million orphans, both single
(02:19):
and double orphans. And so what the Lord spoke to
us about was serving young orphan girls who've lost both
of their parents, who live in a rural tribal village,
(02:40):
again very poor. And we would work with our partner,
his name is Prince Kompomo, and we would in a
village where he has a church plant, we would build
a home and the home would be used as a
permanent foster home for little girls between the ages of
(03:03):
five and ten who lost both their parents and their guardian,
usually a grandmother or an aunt, cannot care for them
or will not care for them. And so these are
children who have to usually beg for food to survive
(03:26):
and they have a very rough life at a young age.
So we will bring in eight of these girls from
one village and we will our partner will supply a couple,
a husband and wife, so be the parents. And so
we raised them in this home in the village under
(03:49):
the leadership of the pastor from the local church. So
it's an all Malaalian effort. There are no Americans involved
except my wife, and so it becomes a ministry of
the local church rather than a ministry of ourselves. And
(04:09):
so we've been at that for nine years now. We
have three foster homes operating with a total of twenty
four girls and the first the first home, we opened
in twenty twenty one, and those girls are now mostly teenagers.
And so the Lord has been with us the entire way.
(04:32):
He is supplied in miraculous ways, have many stories, and
so we're very thankful for what God has done through
us and in us through this ministry.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Jay, before we take a quick break here, just real quickly,
the girls come in between the ages of five and ten.
How late how long do they stay till they're eighteen?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So it could be less, could be more. So it
depends on their education path. Okay, so for those girls
who who are academically strong, we will stay with them
throughout their academic pursuits. For those girls who are less academic,
(05:20):
we probably when their age is sort of a teenager
thirteen to fifteen, we will get them trained on a
specific capability through a partner of ours so that they
can earn a living. So that's our role in the process.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
With me on the program.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
For a couple more segments is Jay Sherlow, co founder
of orphan Shade website Orphanshade dot com. Jay talk about
the three homes that are up and operational kind of
give us a sense of local and give us a
sense of the type of homes that we're talking about
being built and the need to build them the way
that you build them.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Sure, so the first home was our I would say,
complete experiment. We didn't know what we were doing, to
be honest, and so we God delivered a builder that
was in a very unconventional way and they built our home.
(06:32):
That first home in twenty twenty and it was opened
in twenty twenty one, and it's a four bedroom home.
It's about thirteen to fourteen hundred square feet and so
it's oriented to a big family and has an extra
bedroom for visitors. We have people coming from the city
(06:54):
of Blantyre that will come and support the family now
and again. And so over time we built the second
home in another village called Chipolo Polo which means bullet,
interestingly enough, and we started to tweak the house design
(07:19):
and we've made quite a few changes over time, and
that home opened in twenty twenty three. The home that
your listeners will know about is the home in in
Decca and that's north of Blantyre. Blantyre is sort of
the center park, biggest city in the southern region of Malawi,
(07:43):
and so your listeners were extremely generous in twenty twenty
two and twenty twenty three. That home opened in the
summer of twenty twenty four to eight beautiful girls and
a couple who love them very much. That that family
(08:05):
has been very successful. The children are doing very well.
We haven't lost anyone and the girls attend a local
school and are performing very well academically.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The type of homes that are built, I want to
put a kind of paint a picture for everybody. We're
not talking opulence. We're talking about something that is stable
and withstands the elements. Because most of the homes in
these tribal villages are literally homes at last one season, right.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That's correct. So there's there is very challenging weather during
the rainy season, and so so often there are cyclones
that that that come from the Indian Ocean and sort
of stand over Malawi, and it just causes thousands of
(09:04):
thousands of homes that are that are built with UH
with poor materials just to float away. So we we
build a home that's a bit of a tank, I
call it. It is made to last. It has a
very deep foundation UH and it has a very strong
(09:24):
roof made of steel and so but it is not
a fancy home as you as you say it is.
We don't have water service. The water comes from a
local well. We don't have power, so it is it
is built to accommodate that family as best we can.
(09:46):
We're trying to avoid being using the word you use
opulent to the neighbors. We want to be part of
the community, and so so we build that home UH
to last, but it is not always the best home
in the village.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Twenty two minutes past final segment here with Jay Sherlow,
co founder. Orphanshade dot com is the website. This is
not an orphanage it is a home for orphans, and
there is a difference jay very much.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So we have created a family rather than sort of
an institutional orphanage. Orphanages that I have observed do a
really bad job of raising children and there are many
bad effects that the child carries with them when they
(10:46):
enter society at age eighteen. We're creating a family that
stays with that child through their completion of schooling, and
so we want them to experience what it's like to
have a mom and a dad, to experience was like
to have siblings and in their own home have an
(11:11):
environment where they're cared for like a family.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You have ambitious plans for twenty twenty six, tell us
about them.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
We do. Our board of directors approved a plan that
I pitched about two months ago, so we already had
approval to build our fourth home starting in December, and
(11:39):
I pitched the concept of scaling our ministry so that
we could reach more children. So we have a plan
to build two additional homes in twenty twenty six, and
one of those is already funded. Sorry. The fourth house
and the fifth house are already funded. The sixth house
(12:00):
is the house that we're seeking funding on and that
house will be will start construction probably in May June
next year, that's when the rainy season is over. And
so that house would be built and opened probably in
(12:20):
November twenty twenty six, and that would be in an
area that we have not we have not operated in,
So this would be a new village and new area
where our partner has multiple church plans, and so we
will We're going to build two homes at the same
(12:43):
time in two different villages, and we think we can
get some economies of scale by doing that and get
the advantage of some time. So that that is our
plan for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
TV five thousand dollars is the stated goal. And with
that money you're able to secure land and build and
put modest furnishings in these homes for that sum of money.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That's correct?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Now where are we with home number six? We started
this effort a couple weeks into November, and where are
we sitting right now?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Thanks to your listeners, we're sitting at a little over
forty three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
All right, So the goal between now and I've set
the goal at our final day for the season of
broadcasting for US is the seventeenth of December, so we
have thirteen broadcast days including today. So if we can
raise one thousand dollars a day or just knock it
out in a few days, we've got just twelve thousand
(13:52):
left to reach our goal of fifty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Do I have the math? Right?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You do?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
All?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Tell people the way to give and how to navigate
the website.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So the easiest way to do it is to go
to our website www dot orphanshade dot com and on
the homepage you'll see a donate button in red on
the right hand side on the homepage. You just click
that and then you choose the method that you want
(14:28):
to give. It's very simple.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
What is your favorite part of the website that tells
the story the best you think when you go to
orphanshade dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
So that there is a video on the homepage that
it's about two and a half minutes long. It's animated
and we did it at pretty low cost, but it
basically tells the story of what we do and how
we do it, and just give the viewer an idea
(15:03):
of how we go about doing this and how we
are melded into the community where we operate.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So the goal here is one little girl at a time,
to raise a generation, to change a nation. That is right, Jay,
thank you for all you and Stacey and Pastor Prince
are doing to help these girls and to help these communities,
these villages, and thanks for letting us be part of it.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And thank you for making this all happen.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Well, we know who to trust with all that and
who to thank for all that. Yep, Jay, thank you.
I pray favor over you and Stacy and safe travels.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Jay Shirlow with us from Orphanshad orphanshade dot com.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You heard it. We're twelve thousand away. That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
We started at zero. We're at forty three thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Praise Jesus.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So if you can help take a bite out of that,
if you're a business that's been blessed, orphanshade dot com
build a house in the dropdown menu, select the amount
you want to give and market to house number six.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Twenty eight minutes past the hour,
All right, friends, it's the second hour The Morning Show
with Preston Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Preston. He is Jose.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
December first. It just it just sounds good, doesn't it.
I know, I know the year has gone by way.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Too fast, but just feels right.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And so we transition now from Operation Thanksgiving to Spirit
of Christmas and I am joined on the program by
the co founder of Orphan Shade. He is our friend,
Jay Shirlow.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Jay, how are you good morning?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
How are you sir?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm doing terrific all things considered. And I shared the
news with everybody kind of where we are. But for
those that don't know much about Orphan Shade, they've heard
me talk about it a little bit. I thought it
would be useful to kind of reset where this all
began for you and how this program and ministry started.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Sure well, in two thousand and fifteen, I live in Houston, Texas.
I had an interesting character come across my path. The
gentleman was a pastor from the country of Malawi. Malawi's
in Sub Saharan Africa, and I got to know him
(01:33):
and over about a year and a half, we developed
a relationship and as part of that relationship, the Lord
started speaking to both of us about a ministry to
orphans that live in Malawi, and so he when he
(01:53):
departed to go back to his country, he invited me
for a visit and I said, yes, Sir, I'm coming.
And so I had my eyes opened about what life
is like for people in Malawi. It's one of the
poorest countries in the world, has a population of about
twenty million people and about one million orphans, both single
(02:19):
and double orphans. And so what the Lord spoke to
us about was serving young orphan girls who've lost both
of their parents, who live in a rural tribal village,
(02:40):
again very poor. And we would work with our partner,
his name is Prince Kompomo, and we would in a
village where he has a church plant, we would build
a home and the home would be used as a
permanent foster home for little girls between the ages of
(03:03):
five and ten who lost both their parents and their guardian,
usually a grandmother or an aunt, cannot care for them
or will not care for them. And so these are
children who have to usually beg for food to survive
(03:26):
and they have a very rough life at a young age.
So we will bring in eight of these girls from
one village and we will our partner will supply a couple,
a husband and wife, so be the parents. And so
we raised them in this home in the village under
(03:49):
the leadership of the pastor from the local church. So
it's an all Malaalian effort. There are no Americans involved
except my wife, and so it becomes a ministry of
the local church rather than a ministry of ourselves. And
(04:09):
so we've been at that for nine years now. We
have three foster homes operating with a total of twenty
four girls and the first the first home, we opened
in twenty twenty one, and those girls are now mostly teenagers.
And so the Lord has been with us the entire way.
(04:32):
He is supplied in miraculous ways, have many stories, and
so we're very thankful for what God has done through
us and in us through this ministry.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Jay, before we take a quick break here, just real quickly,
the girls come in between the ages of five and ten.
How late how long do they stay till they're eighteen?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So it could be less, could be more. So it
depends on their education path. Okay, so for those girls
who who are academically strong, we will stay with them
throughout their academic pursuits. For those girls who are less academic,
(05:20):
we probably when their age is sort of a teenager
thirteen to fifteen, we will get them trained on a
specific capability through a partner of ours so that they
can earn a living. So that's our role in the process.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
With me on the program.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
For a couple more segments is Jay Sherlow, co founder
of orphan Shade website Orphanshade dot com. Jay talk about
the three homes that are up and operational kind of
give us a sense of local and give us a
sense of the type of homes that we're talking about
being built and the need to build them the way
that you build them.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Sure, so the first home was our I would say,
complete experiment. We didn't know what we were doing, to
be honest, and so we God delivered a builder that
was in a very unconventional way and they built our home.
(06:32):
That first home in twenty twenty and it was opened
in twenty twenty one, and it's a four bedroom home.
It's about thirteen to fourteen hundred square feet and so
it's oriented to a big family and has an extra
bedroom for visitors. We have people coming from the city
(06:54):
of Blantyre that will come and support the family now
and again. And so over time we built the second
home in another village called Chipolo Polo which means bullet,
interestingly enough, and we started to tweak the house design
(07:19):
and we've made quite a few changes over time, and
that home opened in twenty twenty three. The home that
your listeners will know about is the home in in
Decca and that's north of Blantyre. Blantyre is sort of
the center park, biggest city in the southern region of Malawi,
(07:43):
and so your listeners were extremely generous in twenty twenty
two and twenty twenty three. That home opened in the
summer of twenty twenty four to eight beautiful girls and
a couple who love them very much. That that family
(08:05):
has been very successful. The children are doing very well.
We haven't lost anyone and the girls attend a local
school and are performing very well academically.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The type of homes that are built, I want to
put a kind of paint a picture for everybody. We're
not talking opulence. We're talking about something that is stable
and withstands the elements. Because most of the homes in
these tribal villages are literally homes at last one season, right.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
That's correct. So there's there is very challenging weather during
the rainy season, and so so often there are cyclones
that that that come from the Indian Ocean and sort
of stand over Malawi, and it just causes thousands of
(09:04):
thousands of homes that are that are built with UH
with poor materials just to float away. So we we
build a home that's a bit of a tank, I
call it. It is made to last. It has a
very deep foundation UH and it has a very strong
(09:24):
roof made of steel and so but it is not
a fancy home as you as you say it is.
We don't have water service. The water comes from a
local well. We don't have power, so it is it
is built to accommodate that family as best we can.
(09:46):
We're trying to avoid being using the word you use
opulent to the neighbors. We want to be part of
the community, and so so we build that home UH
to last, but it is not always the best home
in the village.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Twenty two minutes past final segment here with Jay Sherlow,
co founder. Orphanshade dot com is the website. This is
not an orphanage it is a home for orphans, and
there is a difference jay very much.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So we have created a family rather than sort of
an institutional orphanage. Orphanages that I have observed do a
really bad job of raising children and there are many
bad effects that the child carries with them when they
(10:46):
enter society at age eighteen. We're creating a family that
stays with that child through their completion of schooling, and
so we want them to experience what it's like to
have a mom and a dad, to experience was like
to have siblings and in their own home have an
(11:11):
environment where they're cared for like a family.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
You have ambitious plans for twenty twenty six, tell us
about them.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
We do. Our board of directors approved a plan that
I pitched about two months ago, so we already had
approval to build our fourth home starting in December, and
(11:39):
I pitched the concept of scaling our ministry so that
we could reach more children. So we have a plan
to build two additional homes in twenty twenty six, and
one of those is already funded. Sorry. The fourth house
and the fifth house are already funded. The sixth house
(12:00):
is the house that we're seeking funding on and that
house will be will start construction probably in May June
next year, that's when the rainy season is over. And
so that house would be built and opened probably in
(12:20):
November twenty twenty six, and that would be in an
area that we have not we have not operated in,
So this would be a new village and new area
where our partner has multiple church plans, and so we
will We're going to build two homes at the same
(12:43):
time in two different villages, and we think we can
get some economies of scale by doing that and get
the advantage of some time. So that that is our
plan for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
TV five thousand dollars is the stated goal. And with
that money you're able to secure land and build and
put modest furnishings in these homes for that sum of money.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That's correct?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Now where are we with home number six? We started
this effort a couple weeks into November, and where are
we sitting right now?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Thanks to your listeners, we're sitting at a little over
forty three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
All right, So the goal between now and I've set
the goal at our final day for the season of
broadcasting for US is the seventeenth of December, so we
have thirteen broadcast days including today. So if we can
raise one thousand dollars a day or just knock it
out in a few days, we've got just twelve thousand
(13:52):
left to reach our goal of fifty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Do I have the math? Right?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You do?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
All?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Tell people the way to give and how to navigate
the website.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
So the easiest way to do it is to go
to our website www dot orphanshade dot com and on
the homepage you'll see a donate button in red on
the right hand side on the homepage. You just click
that and then you choose the method that you want
(14:28):
to give. It's very simple.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
What is your favorite part of the website that tells
the story the best you think when you go to
orphanshade dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
So that there is a video on the homepage that
it's about two and a half minutes long. It's animated
and we did it at pretty low cost, but it
basically tells the story of what we do and how
we do it, and just give the viewer an idea
(15:03):
of how we go about doing this and how we
are melded into the community where we operate.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So the goal here is one little girl at a time,
to raise a generation, to change a nation. That is right, Jay,
thank you for all you and Stacey and Pastor Prince
are doing to help these girls and to help these communities,
these villages, and thanks for letting us be part of it.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And thank you for making this all happen.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Well, we know who to trust with all that and
who to thank for all that. Yep, Jay, thank you.
I pray favor over you and Stacy and safe travels.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Jay Shirlow with us from Orphanshad orphanshade dot com.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You heard it. We're twelve thousand away. That's it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
We started at zero. We're at forty three thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Praise Jesus.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
So if you can help take a bite out of that,
if you're a business that's been blessed, orphanshade dot com
build a house in the dropdown menu, select the amount
you want to give and market to house number six.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Twenty eight minutes past the hour,
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