The semi container is here..

This week the semi container that was packed up in Indiana arrived here in Cazale.  We were so blessed to have a team here to help us unpack all the supplies and boxes. Lots of fun boxes for kids in the school sponsorship program! We unpacked so many boxes.  

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Kettia back for a visit after 9 years

This is Kettia.  She is 11 years old.  When she was 17 months old she was was admitted into the rescue center.  She was in the first group of kids in the new center when we started in Cazale.  At the time she was admitted she only weighted 10 pounds

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We are still here :)

 My excuse for not blogging-see picture above 🙂  We are so excited to have Casey with us for a week.  Love that little brother so much. We have had 5 kids die in the past week.  It has been a hard time for us.  We have one of the twins

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Arts & Crafts with the pros

We were blessed to have the Artists for Hope team join us here in Cazale a couple of weeks ago. They helped with a lot of odd jobs, did some crafts with some RC kids, and of course did oodles of projects with local artisans. You can check out http://artistsforhope.org/ to

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Where there is a need, fill it

My mom,  Lori, and I started taking in kids in 1999.  From our early years of family ministry (late 1980’s), our motto was always, “Where there is a need, fill it.”   We saw kids that were burned, sick, and malnourished and thought maybe, with a little help, they could

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Kettema is doing great!

    Kettema first came to us in January of 2009.  She weighed 17 pounds 9 ounces and was 20 months old. She was one of the first children on the Medika Mamba program and she did very well.  She gained weight quickly. She stayed in the Rescue Center until

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