Pastor Carla Porter, along with her late husband Wade Porter, founded Living Faith International, a ministry with a broad influence in East Africa. LFI is involved in planting churches and training pastors. It is through Living Faith International that Victory Faith Church was started in 1994 in Nairobi. In founding Living Faith International, Wade and Carla sought to show compassion to vulnerable populations of African children.

She also serves as the Senior Pastor of Victory Faith Church in Nairobi that includes an orphanage and tuition-free Christian School. Victory Faith Church is deeply involved in teaching, mentoring, and counseling students in secondary schools throughout Nairobi. She is also the director of Our Home, an orphanage and child care center in Nairobi, Kenya.