The inspirational children from Blue Haven Children’s Home enjoyed volunteering at a three days summer children camp conducted by a local mission. Our Blue Haven children have volunteered at youth camps in the city previously. However, this is the first time they have organized a children camp for three days by themselves. With prayers and lots of preparation, the camp …
Blue Haven Village Ground Breaking!
On January 13th we officially launched the construction of the Blue Haven Village facility with the measuring and initial digging for the pillars. On the way to the site Alok was so happy he was singing “How Great Thou Art” intermingled with Looney Tunes! Our contractor Ashok arrived with his construction team and first of all we had a brief …
Human Trafficking Visit: One Woman's Voice
Ann Tubbs of Harvest International Ministries writes: “I’m excited to give this month’s report on Blue Haven Children’s Home. Mark and I (Ann Tubbs) Lead mission trips all over the world, but our favorite place to come is India and our favorite leader to work with is Leanna. She is extremely visionary and generous of heart. “She brought our team to …
Our Boys Surprised Us
On July 6th Vidisha Foundation in Lucknow organized a drawing competition. The contest theme was ‘Family and Nature’. The contest was open for children aged between 8-15; four of our children from Blue Haven got the opportunity to take part and to create a drawing, expressing their vision for family and nature. Just before the competition children were told about …
Impact India with Your Year-End Gift !
Hello friends and partners, Your generous gifts in 2011-2012 have made a concrete difference in north India. In 2011-2012, more than 4,680 new churches have been planted, and more than 123,535 people have put their faith in Jesus for the first time. Our Blue Haven Children’s Home continues to be a place of healing and laughter, where deeply impoverished girls …
One-of-a-Kind Project!
Moving toward developing a self-sufficient orphanage, based on income from a high-quality Christian school and medical clinic The unreached Ganges River area of North India still has fewer than 2% Christians and there are 35 million destitute and orphan children with almost no Christian orphanages. Only recently we came to know that a large percentage of the 1.2 million children …
Pray for Dolma!
Dolma is one of our lovely girls at Blue Haven Children’s Home. She came to us in 2007 from a very remote part of India called Zanskar, near the Indo-China Border. In April 2010 she became sick and we took her to the hospital. After many lab tests she was diagnosed with Tuberculosis. We were surprised because she had shown …
New House for Blue Haven
In May 2010 we shifted the children’s home to South City, Lucknow about eight miles from our office. David and Shari from the USA have lived on site with the children for the past 14 months. They were literally a Mom and Dad to all 30 kids, enriching their lives by mentoring them and leading special classes like sewing, computers, …