Every month, Heaven’s Family helps far more people than we could ever highlight in our bi-monthly newsletter. For that reason, this page contains additional photos and stories of some of the “least of these” among our spiritual family whom we’ve recently been blessed to serve.
The girl in the gray shirt returned home from living at an orphanage because her parents are now confident that their new-found prosperity will enable them to provide an education for their daughter in their own village! Every child longs to be a part of […]
As I took their photographs, most tried to hide their hands and feet, embarrassed to show what remained of their diseased fingers and toes. Some had neither hands nor feet, but only stubs at the ends of their arms and legs. In the most advanced cases, the dreaded disease had infected their eyes and mouths, resulting in grotesque facial disfigurations. I was visiting, illegally, a remote and isolated mountaintop community in Yunnan Province, China, where about thirty men and women afflicted with leprosy are hidden from the rest of the world.
Missionaries and their fruit: National missionaries Pedro Carballo and Juan Velazquez standing behind recent converts Juan, Josefina, and two of their four children. Dear Friends, I’ve got a story from Mexico that will make you smile! Juan was a heavy drinker, and he often abused […]
Burn victim LaRosa after her first surgery One morning Judith left her two-year-old daughter LaRosa with a neighbor while she ran some errands in nearby Goma, the civil-war-torn capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. While Judith was gone, a terrible accident happened—LaRosa suddenly came […]
Khawng Song and Noah proudly displaying their catches. When I saw the above photo (after I recovered from my initial shock) the familiar adage, “boys will be boys,” came to mind. But when I next saw the photo below I could hardly believe my eyes—girls […]
During the rainy season in Myanmar, malaria-carrying mosquitos are on the prowl. But thanks to those who give to Orphan’s Tear Special Projects, Mercy Orphanage won’t have to worry about mosquitos. We provided the children of Mercy with new mosquito nets and umbrellas! To get […]
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