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.
Dick Samuels and I arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa after a 17-hour flight from Washington D.C.—a “non-stop flight” that stopped in Dakar, Senegal for an hour. We arrived to discover it is summer here in the Southern Hemisphere, which was a welcome improvement over the […]
Kya Hah Sae and Kya Aye helping to sift through the rice. The rice is ready to harvest at Grace Orphanage’s rice fields! Orphan’s Tear purchased a rice field for their orphanage several years ago to help them receive a steady, economical supply of rice. […]
The children at Zion love to play games after they are done with their school work and chores. Their favorite sport is soccer. I want to share with you a slice of life shared with me in the most recent newsletter from Zion Orphanage in […]
Amorphophallus Paeoniifolius. It is also more commonly known in parts of Southeast Asia as stink lily, whitest giant arum, or my favorite name, elephant foot yam.
As we've worked over the past decade to serve orphans around the world, we've encountered cultural customs that are sometimes difficult for us to understand and accept. One is the common practice of divorced and widowed mothers in Myanmar marrying men who demand that they relinquish children from their former marriage.
In the minds of many rural Burmese people, nats are everywhere. I'm not speaking of the insects that we refer to as gnats, but to spirits that allegedly inhabit trees, rocks, mountains and lakes—spirits that are flawed, possess immoral desires, and that need to be regularly appeased by the offerings of fearful worshippers.
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