Heaven's Family Stories

Temporary Friends

While the children might appear to be the pigs’ friends right now, those pigs had better watch out! The director of New Heritage Orphanage, James Thang, is striving to make his orphanage self-sufficient. To that end, he asked Orphan’s Tear for a $1,000 loan to […]

16 May

Mosquito Nets at Love and Mercy Shelter

Love and Mercy Shelter now has new mosquito nets! Love and Mercy Shelter was needing new mosquito nets to replace their old ones with big holes. They were no longer able to keep malaria-infected mosquitoes from reaching the children beneath them. In response to our […]

08 May

Honor Student

Thang Hli Pai with a beaming smile. Thang Hli Pai doesn’t remember what her parents look like. Her mother died giving birth to her. Her father died by snakebite before her first birthday. She was found by a missionary, who cradled baby Thang all the […]

02 May

Unfair Fishing

Obed of New Heritage Orphanage shows off his catch…and his smile! I’ve never had much interest in fishing, but at orphanages like New Heritage in Myanmar, having a pond for raising fish is a great blessing. Adding fish to their diets improves the children’s health, […]

01 May

Why We Do This

What is the driving force behind the ministry of Heaven's Family? The answer is found in the Bible. It teaches us that when a person believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, he or she is spiritually reborn and becomes a 'new creation' (2 Cor. 5:17).

01 May

Oh Susanna!

Susanna's face radiated with joy. And it was no wonder. For her, our arrival marked a new beginning. I was in Hyderabad, India, to visit a community of people affected by leprosy that Heaven's Family has been helping in various ways. Early last year, for example, through a child-sponsorship program, we opened a school for the ostracized, but healthy, children of those afflicted with leprosy. We've also opened a medical clinic just to serve the hundreds of people in Hyderabad who have the cruel disease.