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01Oct

The Fight of His Life

Kumar Lama was handed a gun at age 13, when he was forcibly conscripted into an army of Maoist rebels in his home country of Nepal. His communist captors trained him to fight and kill as they sought to overthrow Nepal's long-standing monarchy. When peace finally came to Nepal in 2006, at least 12,000 people had perished in the violence. Kumar's life was spared, and he returned to civilian life, finding work as a carpenter and eventually marrying a girl named Maya Tamang. She gave him a beautiful daughter whom they named Sajina. With his dark past behind him, Kumar looked forward to a brighter future with his young family.

01Oct

Touching Leprosy

Some of the photos are too graphic to be published in our magazine. They show the terribly-infected sores of leprosy victims whom we visited in Hyderabad, India, earlier this year. As we took those photos of leprosy victims and their festering infections (with their accompanying stench), our only consolation was the knowledge that Heaven's Family was offering hope and healing through the compassion of one very special lady. She was dressing the wounds of those whom very few are willing to touch. Her name is Prasanna Johnson.

01Oct

Slum God’s Millionaire

Sarah Ruguru is one of the world's poorest people. She lives in a slum called Mita Moja, a jumble of tiny mud-and-stick shacks on the outskirts of Kitale, Kenya. Trash is everywhere. Open sewers flow through channels cut along unpaved streets.

01Sep

Transnistrian Emancipation

"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.

01Sep

On Higher Ground

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.

01Sep

“Don’t Send the Money!”

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!"

01Sep

280 Years

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.

01Jul

Jonah and His Fish

Sonny Cung Luai handed in his resignation at the orphanage where he'd served for five years. The job had turned out to be much more difficult than he'd originally imagined, and he and his wife, Biak, had had enough. They moved out, and found a tiny bamboo house to rent where they could think of what to do next. Whatever it would be, it wouldn't be taking care of orphans. "Jonah" was on the run.

01Jul

Seconds from Eternity

"I love you." With those words, Ashok ended the most difficult letter he'd ever written. His wife, Lakshi, would read it soon after his suicide. Ashok's poignant farewell was no pretense. He loved Lakshi deeply and would do anything for her. Several years earlier she had developed chronic bleeding—like the biblical woman healed when she touched Jesus' robe. Desperate to find a cure for the love of his life, Ashok spent all he had on doctors, medicines, and Hindu idols. None helped. Lakshi grew steadily weaker.

01Jul

The Bachelorette

She's 22 years old. She's beautiful. She's a hard worker. She's an excellent cook. She comes from a great family. She's single. What young man in Karnal, India wouldn't want her to be his wife? The answer: not one. Polio, a crippling disease that has been eradicated from most of the world, claimed Monica when she was a baby, making her legs useless. She has never walked.

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The Fight of His Life

The Fight of His Life

Touching Leprosy

Slum God’s Millionaire

Transnistrian Emancipation

On Higher Ground

“Don’t Send the Money!”

280 Years

Jonah and His Fish

Seconds from Eternity

The Bachelorette

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