Van Kung and Dawt Par, wearing traditional Chin tribe clothes, are now happily married. One of the questions most asked from sponsors is: What happens to the orphan I sponsor when they turn 18? Well, in the case of Van Kung and Dawt Par, they decided to get married! Van Kung and Dawt Par, both [...]
Archive for the 'Myanmar' Category
Dear Friends, I hope you had a blessed Christmas! This special holiday is celebrated in many different ways around the world, yet with some similarities. For example, while we might go to the store to buy a ham for Christmas dinner, many of our orphanages raised a pig throughout the year just for a Christmas [...]
Van Ro Cung is quite the daredevil! Dear Friends, I love to see children having fun, don’t you? —Especially when they are orphans! Sonny, the director of Beulah Orphanage in Myanmar, is quite creative when it comes to games. He stood up a tall bamboo post with 2,000 kyat (about $2.50) at the top of [...]
The children of New Heritage Orphanage in Yangon, Myanmar, singing to Jesus Dear Friends, My dad and I spent two weeks in Myanmar last month. Every day we visited several orphanages sponsored by Orphan’s Tear—38 in all. At each orphanage, the children usually sang a song or two for us. In addition to the usual [...]
Dear Friends, I just returned from Myanmar, where I visited all 38 of the Orphan’s Tear-sponsored orphanages there. It was wonderful to be with the children again and meet with all the directors individually to discuss moving forward with our Foster Care Initiative. All of the directors had attended a November conference hosted by Orphan’s [...]
I hope your Thanksgiving is a blessed time with friends, family and fellowship, not to mention good food! We have so much to be thankful for. Speaking of being thankful, I can assure you that your sponsored child (or children) is thankful for your consistent support. A number of our staff members just returned from [...]
Dear Friends, This month I want to share with you some good updates and photos that we received from a few of our orphanages. Orphans Serving Widows Mephibosheth Orphanage in Myanmar believes that even though they are orphans, James 1:27 still applies to them as well! The director reports: For two weeks, our young ladies [...]
Hello Friends of Orphan’s Tear, This month I’m sharing with you a brief sampling of the reports we’ve recently received from our orphanages. You can read updates from the specific orphanage where your child lives by logging in to your online account at OrphansTear.org. Then click on My Account>Sponsorship and Giving History>My Children>View This Child’s [...]
Lined up for their first day of school at Shalom Orphanage in Myanmar Dear Friends, Here in the U.S., the stores are having their back-to-school sales, and parents are buying new clothes for their kids in preparation for the new school year. In Myanmar, however, the kids are already back in school. Not only has the school year [...]
It’s not only encouraging to hear how you are making a difference in the life of an orphan, but also how our orphans are making a difference in their community! We recently received the following email from the director of Emmanuel Childcare Center in Myanmar: We are helping work to the government. We cleaned the [...]
