Have just returned from being with the children and to look over some of our building projects on the site.  Noah and his wife Grace are doing a wonderful work with the orphans and outcasts that come to them.

Some are rag-and-bone children—scavengers—who dig for plastic bottles in the garbage. The little twins were such scavengers—“little” because of malnourishment. Noah said that whenever they have testimony time, they always stand and say, “I thank God I have food!"

Others like Sarie Mei and Joshua had to turn to the street to survive after their father died. When people said they were too hard, too stupid to learn, Grace said, “That’s OK, give them to me.”

Others come full of sores and scars—not just emotional but real scars. Ruthie’s father abandoned her, and at four she was already staying at the brothel across from her house or sleeping in the street because her stepfather did not want her. He beat her and even burned her with cigarettes out of cruelty. Ruthie’s mother eventually gave her to Noah and Grace to raise. She is now a pretty little 6-year-old who is finding love for the first time, but when she’s alone with her doll, her eyes are very sad.