At the Lillian Trasher Orphanage live 175 orphans and 125 adults widows, blind women, and staff. We performed physicals on the kids and treated the adults for whatever various problems that they had. We had one case of Rickets and many cases of Failure to Thrive. One baby had been brought to the orphanage at age one and weighed only 7 pounds, but after just 3 months there she had doubled in weight. We instructed the staff in how to feed her (her teeth had not erupted since she was so starved/malnourished) and play with her, moving her arms and legs to speed her progress. Some of the kids were feeling bitter towards God for allowing their parents to die, others felt hopeless since the options for Christians after graduation from school are slim in this Muslim country. Each and every person seen received one-on-one medical care, spiritual counseling, and prayer.
Thank you for supporting us in prayer and with your finances, without either we could not minister!
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. " James 1:27
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