What Family Means: Why Family Changes Everythi
For years, the word orphanage has been linked with safety and compassion — a place where vulnerable children could find food, care, and protection. And while those intentions are good, around the world people are beginning to see what we’ve known all along: children grow best in families. At His Cherished Ones, this belief has […]
Orphan Care – bridging the gap
When most of us think of the definition of “orphan,” we think of a child whose parents have died. Though that is technically the definition, most organizations today, especially children’s homes, use the word differently. Approximately 80% of children in orphanages, are not true orphans. “Poverty orphans” or “social orphans” are children who have been […]
Home Visits – the Family Connection
As we love and care for the babies in HOH, we also strive to connect with their families and the community around us. One of the ways we connect with community is by going on home visits to foster and adoptive family homes. Some are nearby, some are more remote. All are special and a […]
A long awaited full family
This forever family has been in waiting to officially become family for a very long time! Little Hope and her Auntie Emily have had a special bond since she was an infant. Since Auntie Emily lives just around the corner from the baby house, it was easy for Emily to take her home to spend […]
Reunited, and it feels so good!
Finally, after such a long, long time, we got to send a sweet boy home with his mama! Mama Jaden left Jaden with us two years ago when the children’s home she grew up in requested for us to help her. She was in high school when Jaden was born and they wanted to help […]
We are a family
We have a weekly fellowship where all of our HCO/HOH staff gathers for some singing, testimony and sharing time. Every time our sweet Auntie Emily shares, she always wants to start with a greeting and response that everyone now knows. Emily: “Brothers and sisters”Everyone: “Sisters and brothers”Emily: “Sisters and brothers”Everyone: “Brothers and sister”Everyone: “We are […]
All About the Family
His Cherished Ones is all about the family, so we wanted to update you on our family – the HCO family and the Mroczko family. God has graciously protected the HCO staff and babies over the past few months! We have an amazing group of people who stepped up to take care of our little […]
January 2020
Hard at work Jim has been hard at work, getting Nana’s house updated and repaired. We are grateful that God has allowed us to be here to help her. And I am grateful that God has given me a husband a who is able to DO all these things that need to be done! And […]
DECEMBER – IN PICTURES
We’re ready to grow! The aquaponics is getting piped and the greenhouse is built. Now, just time to connect it all, getting it flowing, and start experimenting and learning! Men in ministry Evans has been on our team for almost a year. To hear him teach is a blessing. To see the other men learn […]
NOVEMBER – IN PICTURES
Sweet Boys We currently have 23 babies, all growing and thriving. Thank you to everyone who helps to make this possible! We get babies from so many different circumstances. Not a single one comes without some level of loss. Some orphaned, many abandoned, all suffering from separation from the family they were born into and […]