About Us
An Orphan’s Ticket Home is the official fundraising campaign of
America World Adoption. One hundred percent of all proceeds
go directly to our fundraising initiatives. America World Adoption has undertaken
this new creative campaign designed to help our agency meet our objective of placing
children into loving, Christian families. With our new campaign, we are hoping that
thousands of orphaned children from around the world will have the opportunity to
a be part of a loving family, through the blessing of adoption. Our goal is to raise
$1 million by 2011, which would help us bring over 5000 orphans home! Please join
with us today in this campaign to provide a "ticket home" for an orphaned child.
Who We Are
Brian Andrew Luwis
CEO
I have lived in the Washington Metropolitan area for over 40 years and have been
actively involved with adoptions since 1993 - both as a parent, and as an advocate
for orphans. After attending St. Albans School, I graduated with honors from the
Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1988 with a Bachelor of Architecture.
In 1993 my wife and I founded America World Adoption to assist other former orphans
like our first daughter, Fei, and share the blessing of adoption with Christian
families. I work for my family business, a building development and management company
and serve America World Adoption solely as a 40+ hour/week volunteer (no salary).
Like the Apostle Paul who made tents, I enjoy having the ability to earn my income
through a source that is separate from my primary focus/ministry. My father was
a first generation American born to a poor immigrant family from Yugoslavia; he
was a very successful developer in the D.C. area and it was his commitment to hard
work that has enabled me to volunteer at America World. In 2006, I went back to
school, and by late 2007 I had earned a Master’s in Nonprofit Management. During
school, I applied every project and assignment to America World Adoption and orphan
issues. This was a great time for me to learn and study the business side of managing
a non-profit organization. My wife, Renee, and I now have five children: four by
adoption and one by birth. God has revealed one of his greatest blessings to our
family through His Spirit of adoption and it is our passion to share this with families
like you. We are excited about what God is doing through America World and consider
it an honor to be building families like yours through God’s design of adoption.
Jason West
Director of Development I was never an orphan, but nonetheless, I was
adopted into the Lord’s family, through Christ’s sacrificial work on the cross, the summer
after I turned 14. I, an undesirable and lost sinner, was sought after and given a hope and
a future, not because of anything worthwhile within me, but because God chose to love me and
to be my Father. (Galatians 4:4-5) Ever since that day, the concept of adoption has been near
and dear to me.
My love and passion for adoption has only increased over the years, as my parents took four separate
trips to China, in order to adopt four children into our family over the course of a decade.
Although these four orphans were once alien to me, in an instant, they became part of my family.
Even though they are not related to me through our genes, they are truly and completely my younger
siblings and I would lay down my life for any one of them without hesitation.
It is because of my awareness of the Lord’s redemptive work in my life, the thought of my siblings’
early months and years without the love of a family, as well as the hundreds of thousands of orphans
around the globe, yearning for a home, that I desire to work tirelessly - advocating for the voiceless
and helpless. I want to echo the heart of the Father in my pursuit to care for and help children who
groan for a hope. I have a burden that people’s eyes are opened to the plight of the orphans, as
well as the joys and blessings of adoption and caring for the world’s little ones in distress.
Since the Father has rescued me from my state of despair, how can I not also work to help those who
are destitute and obey His call to “defend the cause of the fatherless” (Isaiah 1:17)?