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.
Let me tell you a little more about me, and why I love serving as the director of Orphan’s Tear. Our ministry was very young, and we were just starting to help orphanages get their children sponsored. To see first hand what it was all […]
When Orphan’s Tear began in 2005 with a handful of Christian orphanages in Myanmar, we could hardly imagine that, 7 years later, roughly 1,000 children, in 8 nations, would be sponsored by caring folks in the US, UK, Switzerland, South Africa, Singapore, Canada, Australia, and […]
"My parents were communists, and my mother was even the secretary of the Communist Party in our area. I was their only child, and I had all that I wished for. For us, life in the Soviet Union was good." At age 15, however, the world of Rusnac Alexander began to unravel.
In a second she was gone, torn from her father's arms. He desperately cried out for her: "JOLINA...! WHERE ARE YOU...?" Confused and surrounded by darkness, all José knew for sure was that a wall of water had just swept away his little home, he was fighting for his life amid swirling debris, and his four-year-old daughter had just been ripped from his arms by something rushing violently past in the current.
Those are words that Heaven's Family staff members rarely read in the hundreds of weekly communications that we receive from around the world. But I was even more amazed as I continued to read the email from Maung Maung Ta, a Heaven's Family orphanage director in Myanmar: "I've received a miracle—I can walk! Jesus has healed me!"
280 years. That is how long the residents of Van Hniam village, deep in the mountains of rural Myanmar, lived without running water. Villagers had to hike 3 miles round trip to fetch the water that has always sustained them. But now, thanks to gifts to Heaven's Family's Mutual Fund and Village Development Fund, they enjoy the blessings of running water in their village, accessible from 18 outdoor water faucets, that flows from a large, concrete reservoir high in the mountains.
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