We only had time to eat our breakfast this morning before leaving at 8:30 to Connie's Home, a home which houses about 30 young children from a few days old until about five years old to ready them for international adoption. We met Connie, her husband, and three of her five children (the other two are married and live in the U.S.). The youngest is about fourteen, who was the first child in Connie's home as they adopted her thirteen years ago. You can read more by going to Facebook and search for "connie's home". Without raising funds, God has provided them finances for three buildings located on a large piece of land on the outskirts of Chiang Mai which Connie's cousin the the States bought and gave to her. The first building is where Connie's family lives with most of the younger children. The second houses some younger and the older children, and the third house is where the helpers and nannies live. Volunteers and interns also live in the second house. In back of the third house is their hydroponics garden where they grow vegetables they eat. In fact, they grow so much food, they have expanded their ministry to feed poor widows. As with Light for Kids, they try to be self sufficient, raising chickens for meat and eggs, and all kinds of fruit and vegetables. They also grow their own tilapia for food and they recycle the water with the fish poop into their hydroponic garden to fertilize their vegetables. They then teach these techniques to the minority farmers so they can become self sustaining. As their ministry grew, Connie also realized they needed more help to take care of more orphans, so she reached out to the juvenile prison (where we visited on Monday) and went through the court system to approve their taking some of these girl inmates to teach them to become nannies. Now they also train girls as "au pair" who then find jobs overseas to care for young children, so their ministry has slowly expanded and become more holistic. After touring the grounds, Vision sang four songs to the children and nannies. Then from ten to eleven, we (along with Connie's three children, two college aged kids back from the U.S. on vacation and an eighteen year old girl who is volunteering for three and a half months named Sara) took care of all 30 children, playing and holding them while Ching and Sue talked to the seven nannies. Four of these girls had already received the Lord. Praise God, two more received the Lord today while the third girl was not yet ready to do so. We reluctantly said our good byes and returned home to eat lunch, do our group devotions on John 14:15-21, and rested before heading out to Ching and Thang's home for an afternoon of fun, swimming (her compound has a pool) and dinner. This photo shows some of the kids with Sara in the top corner in green, Connie's son with the beard in the middle, and Connie in white with her head bowed.
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