In Poipet, Cambodia Saturday February 20th, 2016 Abandoned by her parents at the age of three, six-year-old Srey has every human reason to feel unloved and rejected. The tumor that disfigured her face was seen by her parents as a curse and ultimately led to her abandonment....
Thursday Feb 18th - At Home of the Open Heart Orphanage, Chiang Rai, Thailand My senses reeled and my heart sank as I visited a hospice center in Chaing Mai, holding the hand of a dear man who is dying of AIDS. My own families experience...
Love, grace, mercy, new beginnings, beauty, hope… did I mention love? These are the words that ran through my mind as I toured Hope and Future. As director Lilly Ferrer walked us through the home that she lovingly oversees, Lilly seemed more like a mom to...
While photographing Little House of Refuge and the children that live here, a sweet, outgoing girl ran up to me, pulling on my arm to lead me to a painting that hung on the wall by her bed. From her enthusiasm, I knew this art...
Despite the natural beauty one experiences from Guatemala and it’s people, there is a huge problem here with sexual abuse and teen pregnancy. Guatemala has one of the world's highest teen pregnancy rates as more than 5,100 girls under 14 had babies in 2014. We...
I am traveling today in Guatemala with Orphan Outreach on a vision casting trip for the church I attend, Birchman Baptist, Our first care facility visit today was at a government run home for children. Sadly, many are placed here as result of abuse. These...
I could have spent a lifetime in Zambia and never run out of stories. Time was the constraining factor, not material. Weeks later as I think back on my visit to Zambia with Gary Schneider, founder of Every Orphans Hope, my mind reflects on Lubasi...
[Written a few weeks ago while visiting Bohol Island in the Philippines] Unable to sleep any longer in my still-dark Hotel room in the Philippines, I quickly dressed and crossed the bridge to the Badjao on a tuk-tuk. I wanted to find Therese, the little girl...
Aging out is a serious issue in the 147,000,000 global orphan crisis. Orphans that are “unadoptable”, growing up in orphanages and at the age of 18 being released to the streets with no one to care for them. The typical path for these unwanted emerging...
August 18th, 2015 - 6000 miles from home in Istanbul, Turkey Carissa and I are in our fifth country with one more to go on our 40,000-mile-long August Journey. I woke up this morning surrounded by The Bosphorus, the Hagia Sophia and the Blue mosque of Istanbul, with...
