Tluang Za Men of Living Hope Orphanage earned a third place prize in her class at school The sweltering heat of summer has already begun its oppressive reign in Myanmar this year, making it impossible to hold classes in the mostly-bamboo classrooms where air-conditioning is unheard of. Thus the school season ends in February and [...]
A lesson of faith: a new kitchen comes to Living Hope Orphanage! Living Hope Orphanage has prayed a long time for a new kitchen. Their old “kitchen” was little more than an outdoor fire pit, exposed to all the weather. Cooking during the monsoon season—almost six months out of the year—was nearly impossible. Then they [...]
Dear Friends, I wish I could share only happy news from the orphanages you help us support, but this month I have sad news. This sad news, however, is tempered by the hope we have in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We Will See Him Again Ram Tang, a young man raised at Grace [...]
Par Dim making a regular contribution to her investment. Par Dim and her husband Joseph take care of 16 children at Emmanuel Orphanage. She recently had an idea: raise pigs to help their orphanage become more self-sufficient. She knew that if she could buy some piglets and fatten them up, she could then sell them [...]
Ngun Ngen Tial proudly standing with her new loom. In the February issue of Heaven’s Family’s magazine, you may remember reading about Ngun Ngen Tial and her sister. Ngun struggles with hearing problems—perhaps due to malnutrition she suffered before she came to El Shaddai Orphanage in Myanmar—making it difficult for her to learn in school. [...]
We received the photo above from the director of Life Concern Orphanage in Myanmar. He labeled it with the bittersweet caption, “Final Greeting of Christmas Pig”!
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 [...]
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 [...]
