No child should grow up without someone coming home.
Randy and Kathleen McReynolds have raised abandoned children in Thailand as their own sons and daughters for 22 years. Now those kids are grown, and coming back to raise the next ones.
at the home
The need
Foster care moves a child from house to house. These kids needed the opposite.
In the villages around the home, children are abandoned or lose their parents, and many families are too poor to keep a child in school. Randy and Kathleen are the only missionaries in the area. Without a home and an education, the road ahead is short and hard.
Ban Dek Yin Dee, the House of Happy Children, gave them one mom and dad, the same bed and the same table, every year until they were grown. Some came at four weeks old. Most are adults now, and many still call home every week.
What happens next
The kids they raised are coming home to lead.
Nam grew up in the home. Three rounds of rehab didn't hold, and then God got hold of him. He's 28 now, with his first baby on the way. Others raised in the home are joining the staff at $300 a month, before merit-based raises. Those salaries are the biggest need right now.
What a monthly gift does
Five dollars goes a long way in Thailand.
Pick the one that fits. You can change it or stop it any time from your receipt.
Our work
One home, and a whole village around it.
Three stories, fifteen bedrooms, eight bathrooms, built in stages with the account empty before almost every payment. From there the work spread out: school, food, the elders, the kids next door.
Projects
Fund a project. Get the photos and the receipts.
When the third floor flooded, a partner church paid for new windows. They got photos while the work was going on, and the final bill for every baht. Every project gift gets the same.
Stories
The kids who grew up here.
Who we are
A teacher and a coffee shop owner who said yes.
Randy taught school in Wyoming. Kathleen ran two businesses in Loveland, Colorado. A missions class at Good Shepherd sent them to Thailand with no plan. They came home, sold the coffee shop in two days, and went back for good.
Gifts go to Living Spirit Ministries, a U.S. 501(c)(3) overseen by a volunteer board, and on to the foundation in Thailand. Randy and Kathleen put their own money in alongside yours.
Our whole story
Right now, the home can take in children again.
Monthly partners are what make it possible. It takes two minutes, and you'll hear from Thailand once a month.
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