April 2017 – Cafeteria Update Thank you so much to everyone for your generous giving to our cafeteria / multipurpose building fund. That project is officially fully funded and construction began in February. It is exciting to see what once was just a drawing slowly become a reality! GROW Board of Directors Faa, Melissa, Jim,…
Great news! GROW was approved for the newly required “Foster” home registration. We are the first ministry to receive this approval. I am so proud of our staff here who are so organized and are keeping such great accounts and records of everything that the government awarded this approval in just four months instead of…
Faa is a woman of short stature but mighty faith. When you meet her, even casually, you cannot help but feel elevated — her joy in Christ is contagious. But she can also be a pesky little woman. When she sets her sights on something, she moves as an unstoppable force. I watched her in…
This is a phrase that has become a philosophy for our ministry. I hear Faa saying it and acting on it all the time. The children in the GROW home get it; the staff lives by it. We hope you get it too! In the recent tragic fire in an orphan home near the GROW…
Quietly but steadily we are making a difference in the lives of children whose past has been marred by abuse. One of our newest boys was only six when he came to us. He was treated like a pig by a grandmother who beat him with a bamboo stick every day. His father, on a…