Wordsower Intl.

We are so grateful to God and to His people who have responded to the needs expressed in our last newsletter and to some phone calls.

About a year ago the Lord enabled us to partner with some Brethren in Haiti and America to take in about twenty four orphan children from the alleyways of the Giardo Ravine neighborhood just outside Port Au Prince. We found a house, rented it, outfitted it, staffed it and set about caring for and educating these most needy children. In January we added to our numbers, taking in another sixteen children. We thought forty children was a full house.

The Lord is so gracious to us. We have been on tour for almost three months. We are pretty tired. The pick-up has carried us over fourteen thousand miles in those three months, with about four thousand to go before we get back to Nampa.

The Lord has given us the unique opportunity of ministering to orphan girls in Liberia. In partnership with Brethren in the US and Liberia we are opening a 'home' in Monrovia. It is for young women who have been put out of orphan homes because they are now too old to be adopted internationally (16) and so no longer a possible source of income to the orphanage. These girls go to the streets of Monrovia with little education and no job skills in an economy that has ninety-five percent unemployment. They have nothing and must somehow find food and shelter. Their plight is tragic and immediate.

The work of God at My Father's House India continues to grow with the addition of a twenty-five day old girl. We praise God for this precious gift and the other hundred and twenty plus children now at our home. The facility we have been using will apparently suffice for a while. We have no where to go and cannot find a suitable building in the extended area. So we are going to rent our current facility for another year, Lord providing, and pray for our own piece of land that we can develop. We need more space with better land & drainage. Our staff at My Father's House has offered to live in tents and we would have many hands to help us build suitable rooms for the children, staff and widows. There are millions of orphans, child prostitutes and street children in India. The ministries devoted to meeting the needs of these 'least in the world' are not meeting the need. There are child traffickers, panderers, sexual exploiters and predators in abundance and we compete with them for the souls of these children in a society that has no compassionate root. We have the opportunity to save these children from abuse and exploitation and, perhaps, lead them to faith in Christ. We need room. We could take hundreds more children if we had space for them to sleep, eat, play and study. Land is costly but souls are priceless. Please pray and help as you are able.