In the summer of 1992, Childers converted toChristianityshortly after, and with the help of his wife at arevival meetingat anAssembly of Godchurch. That same evening Childers' pastor prophesied that he would go toAfrica. At the end of 1998, Childers made his first trip to Sudan. In that first trip and the many that followed, he was exposed to the acts of theLord's Resistance Armywhich he described as atrocious. Not long after his first trip to Sudan, Childers and his wife Lynn founded the Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village in Southern Sudan. The Children's Village currently houses and educates over 300 orphans, with over a thousand children rescued since its conception. The staff at the Children's Village are primarily Sudanese orphans and widows themselves. This is currently the largest orphanagein Southern Sudan and is unique in its approach of leading armed rescue missions directly into LRA territory.