$4519
I just spent several minutes adding everything that has come in in the past week. We’re at $4519! That’s amazing! I’m a little emotional right now. I’m truly amazed and humbled that so many people have taken a moment to help with all of the other things going on in the world. That you would [...]

First, a progress report on Project Buy the Orphanage a Truck. As of this morning the total donated is $3280. That’s more than halfway to our goal of $6000. I’m blown away. I really didn’t think this was going to happen short of a miracle. Now, I think it just might. You guys are the [...]

In a week and one day Aaron will board a plane for Thailand. One problem, we still haven’t raised the $6000 we need to buy a truck so the kids can get to school safely. (Please scroll down for the story. To learn more about The Charis Project please visit our website.)
So, in the interest [...]

You did this.

You made this possible.

Thanks to your generosity in December we were able to send enough money for all of the children to have beds, and warm clothes and new shoes.

This wouldn’t have happened without you, your care, your partnership. Without you there is no Charis Project.
Thank-you for everything.
We’re looking forward to some really [...]

It was the year 2001, we had been married less than a year and we were at the Door of Faith Orphanage in Mexico talking to DJ and Lynette, the couple who run the whole place. A month earlier we made the choice together that someday, somehow, we wanted to take care [...]

Khlong Lan.  About 27 miles away from the Thai/Myanmar (Burma) border. Hot and sweaty. 260 miles from Chiang Mai.

The marble shark circles.

The marble shark spots his prey.

From the deep, the marble shark surges toward the unsuspecting seal.

DING! DING! DING! DING! WINNER! WINNER! WINNER!

We together are the champions.

Dark:30 in the morning. Guitar, children singing in Hmong. I have come across 15 time zones; have been traveling on planes, trains, buses, trucks and motorcycles for 40 hours. It has been worth it.
Yesterday afternoon I bumped my way through the gate on the back of Chala’s motorcycle. For the first time [...]

Many of you will remember that last fall Chala’s wife left him. Chala has taken in 40 children who have no family to take care of them. These kids have either been orphaned by the conflict in Burma, or by poverty in refugee villages in Thailand. Some have living parents who abandoned them for reasons [...]