Homes of Love

I  want to give you a glimpse of our HOL baby (youngest child) getting his first ever toy…a Build-A-Bear brought from Knoxville. Caitlyn Chesney is his sponsor and picked out one of the donated Build-a-Bears we received at Christmas from FEFC.  She was so excited to meet her little fellow. The rest is history! Enjoy [...]

Day 1 of Camp…great excitement, a little bit of chaos, lots of laughter, choosing teams, making team banners, children looking for faces that had come in the past, young people looking for the child they sponsor and HUGE smiles and hugs when they find each other! Day 2 of Camp…fun games (like pass the live [...]

The Zimbabwe team has returned to the US. Sue remains for a few days and will come home next Monday. Continue to pray for her. Here are a few words as she unwinds for her adventure… “I am in South Africa now with my brother Gary and Jolandi his wife. We will go up to [...]

One of the fondest memories I have of my childhood is swimming at night during vacation. Tonight I saw another family enjoy that pleasure. One of the HOL families got into the pool together after many of the other homes had tucked children into bed. The pool was full of laughter, chicken fights, and lots [...]

Leaving Cambodia was hard. It was hard saying “Good-bye”… to the many faces that are forever in our hearts: faces of Saints who are trying to help, faces of young girls lined up on the street waiting for their next customer, faces of team mates who have become dear friends. Our team…so diverse, 25 of [...]

Well, you heard from Amanda.  Now I want you to hear from Caitlyn. Girl’s don’t just line up on the street corners here, they line up on the entire side of the road. They don’t come out around mid-night, but they are lined up by the time of 7. I saw the desperation in their [...]

I’ve spent the past 4 days in Cambodia and I LOVE it here. The people are so gentle and kind, the children are so tan and beautiful and the trees are so green! But for all its beauty, Cambodia is a place of great darkness and sadness. 98% of the people here do not know Christ. You [...]

Hi all, Arrived in safely Cambodia a few hours ago.  The bus ride was a bit fun and we all had some down time on the bus. It was full but the 23 (somewhere along the way we picked up 2 more Asians) of us actually took up most of the seats so it was [...]

Hi Everyone, I want to get this HOL update off to you before we leave town and won’t have internet again for about 10 days. Shad, Millie and the children were able to come out to Lasting Impressions and spent the night with us this time. Shad was able to go a business seminar Steve Hall [...]

Today has been a bit of a heart string day– Got up early and went to the largest church in town.  The believers are on a spiritual high right now and it is contagious. The Father’s hand is so apparent. The day: Hear the Hallelujah Chorus like have never heard it song before.  Joy overflowing, the whole [...]