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.
Crossing the Yangtze River Dear Friends, Greetings from Yunnan Province in South Western China. I’m here checking up on a few Heaven’s Family projects with long-time friend and missionary, Sam (name changed to protect identity). Sam is a man of great faith, as illustrated […]
"Mrs. Velazquez, I regret to inform you that you have breast cancer." Her doctor's grim words may well have sounded bittersweet to Leonila Velazquez, as she contemplated a diagnosis that could signal an end to her life, a life that had been filled with tragedy.
"If I return home, where will all these orphans go?" That was the dilemma faced by Christopher Biak Lang, missionary from India and director of Love Children's Home in Myanmar. The church that sent Christopher and his family to Myanmar had just informed him that the church mission fund had dried up; thus he, his wife and their four children should return to India. Christopher, however, had 18 local orphans who were living with him.
It was early Sunday morning, the day after Christmas. Rasool and Maryam Abdolahi and their two children were sleeping peacefully. That all changed, however, in an instant. Without warning, plainclothes policemen broke through the front door of their Tehran apartment and stormed inside. As some of the police rummaged through their personal belongings searching for evidence of their faith, Rasool and Maryam were handcuffed and taken away—as their two children watched in horror.
She was just 17 years old, and with each passing day her fears increased. I'll be suspended from school if they find out, she worried to herself. An education was a precious opportunity for someone like her, and she would do anything to keep from losing it. So she did all she could to keep her shameful secret hidden.
Wearing a simple dress and an innocent smile, twelve-year-old Saraswati Etlapuram seems like any other carefree little girl who lives in Hyderabad, India. Below the surface, however, she ponders questions about injustices that she doesn't understand: "Why do people shun me? Why am I not permitted to attend school like other children? Is it true that I will never be married?" Although she is perfectly healthy, Saraswati is treated like a leper—because her parents have leprosy.
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