Archive for 2009


Myanmar team members David and Emily Growden sharing some love with the children Dear Friends, How I so wish that you would have been with me during our two weeks in Myanmar last month. It was a marvelous trip, and everything went so smoothly. Please do consider joining one of our teams in November/December of [...]




Aathmajothi Sulaxana from Eastern Children’s Home in Sri Lanka Dear Friends, Sorry for our monthly newsletter going out a little late this month, but we’ve been busier than usual (if that is possible) with moving our offices out of my home’s sunporch and bedrooms to some commercial office space. We had no choice in the [...]




Hniang Sung Par, from Canaan Orphanage in Myanmar, is glad to have sponsors from New Mexico Dear Friends, It’s been a while since we’ve updated you on all of the good things being accomplished through the Orphan’s Tear Special Gifts Fund. A lot has been happening over the past few months! Let me give you [...]




Dear Friends, This month I asked my daughter, Charity, who heads the Orphan’s Tear division of Heaven’s Family, to write the monthly update. Let her know if you think she did a good job! For the Children, David Life Concern Orphanage, in front of their new dormitory, made possible by your gifts Can you imagine [...]




Dear Friends, Big news this month! If your sponsored child lives in Myanmar, there is a 99.5% chance that we have a recent photo for you of your child! And if your sponsored child is living in one of the other seven nations where we assist orphanages, there is a fairly good chance that we [...]




Emmanuel Orphanage’s brand new building, and the children in the upper balcony I want to tell you a story this month about Emmanuel Orphanage One and Emmanuel Orphanage Two. About three years ago, when we were visiting the many orphanages that we help in Kalaymyo, Myanmar, I was requested to visit Emmanuel Orphanage. I was [...]




Van Par Mawi, at New Eden Orphanage in Myanmar Dear Orphan’s Tear Friends, I’m happy to report that our second team successfully returned from Myanmar three weeks ago, and we were able to take new portraits of every child, sponsored and unsponsored, at the thirty orphanages that we assist there. As I’m writing this, several [...]




Some of the children of Christ’s Home for the Needy in Myanmar, with fish they’ve raised and harvested Dear Friends, This month I want to tell you about a special orphanage in Myanmar. It is named Christ’s Home for the Needy. You may remember me telling the story of that orphanage in July of 2007, [...]





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