What Good Can a $78 Necklace Do?

Here’s how some are answering this question:
It just might save a little girl (just like YOURS and MINE) from being raped as a sex slave to dirty old eveil men-THAT WHAT!
It can save a little girl, just like my own, from being stripped of every ounce of her childhood and dignity by a monster preying on [...]

Hope for the Fatherless: Meet Masha an orphan who was rescued from a life of forced prostitution.

   Masha left the orphanage at 15 and was sent to a tech school–an underfunded holding tank for kids who learn how to lay brick or paint walls.
One day, a group of professional looking, wealthy women came to the school and interviewed the girls for the best jobs in Russia. 

They were promised fancy clothes, expensive jewelry, [...]

Children’s HopeChest & AdoptionFathers.com – Breaking the Chain of Sex Trafficking & Orphanhood this Mother’s Day!

This Mothers Day, Tom Davis & Children’s HopeChest are partnering with AdoptionFathers.com & you to help Break The Chain of sex trafficking and orphanhood in Eastern Europe – through our Mothers Day Necklace Fundraiser.  Click on image to purchase now.

At AdoptionFathers.com we recognize not every family has been blessed with God’s great calling to adopt [...]

Rabia Sayid – Thank You For Inspiring Me

During my trip to Ethiopia in December 2009 I wrote about a young girl in a wheelchair who was determined to participate with us as we played parachute games with the other orphans.  Below is the video of her story that was recorded by Tom Davis at Children’s HopeChest that very same day.  For as long as I [...]

A Christmas Story – Part I

Each Christmas brings with it a story that is often told yet rarely truly heard – a story of an adopted baby (adopted by his father Joseph) who came into the earth in the most humble of circumstances, yet ultimately proved Himself to be the Light of the world.
This Christmas I’d like to share a [...]

A Walk On The Lighter Side

Admittedly my past several posts have been a little ‘heavy’ at times – which is easy to do when you’re in the environment we were in. So I wanted to take the time to share with you just a few of the lighter moments of the trip, of which there were many. Because for each [...]

Home Sweet Home

Home sweet home…..
We left our guest house in Addis Ababa at 10:30 am yesterday, and I arrived home at about 10:30 am today. A 24 hour trek that was about as smooth and uneventful as I could have possibly hoped – a sharp contrast to the exciting twists and turns that we experienced abroad.
For now [...]

Amazing Encounter

Today was a day like no other…

This morning I departed from the rest of the team to join Tom Davis and a small team to visit a very special project in the village of Nazaret (a.k.a. Adama) about 1.5 hours from Addis Ababa. While there we visited the Look Development Association care point – a [...]

Ethiopian Orphan Project Day 5

Greetings from Addis Ababa Ethiopia! It’s getting late and we’ve been running on (diesel) fumes over the last couple of days so I’m goint to keep this short. Any of you who’ve been to Addis understand my diesel reference – the pollution in this city is unbelievable. While driving you are constantly sucking the fumes [...]

Ethiopian Worship – Orphan Style

This is an excerpt from a worship service that the orphans conducted on our behalf – it was the most exhilarating service that I’ve experienced in quite a long time.

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