Que Huong Charity Centre is the name of the children’s home we visited Saturday. It houses over 300 orphans. In many of these kids’ cases, after the mom gives birth, she ends up leaving the child at the hospital, which in turn, leaves the child with almost no hope of a future. Because of this, they will never be able to get a birth certificate which prevents that child from EVER being available for adoption, they will never be able to get a decent job, nor will they be able to get past Grade 1 (you have to show proof of a birth certificate in order to advance to Grade 2). The only way for a child here to get a birth certificate is after they’re born and the mother takes them to her home city to show physical proof of the child.
I just want to share some of the pictures I took of some of the most precious children I’ve ever had the privilege of loving on.
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” John 14:18
“Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.” Isaiah 1:17
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27
“Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.” Psalm 27:10
“A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.” Psalm 68:5
Scripture is constantly commanding us to take care of orphans and to love them. It also assures us that though they might not have earthly parents, they have a heavenly Father that loves them more than they’ll ever know and that there is absolutely nothing that could ever possibly threaten that. They, in fact, have such a special place in God’s eyes. I haven’t stopped thinking about these kids since we left the children’s home and although it absolutely breaks my heart to know they won’t ever grow up knowing what a true family is, I take comfort in knowing someone so much greater has them in the palm of His hands and that’s the safest, most greatest place to be.
