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 […]
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 […]
Furaha!
If you have been around HCO for awhile, you will remember our single mothers sewing project, Furaha. About five or so years ago, we started a project of training single moms with an income generating skill that they could use to provide for their families. After learning to sew, they would participate in making some […]
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 […]
Merry Christmas!
The HCO Kenya family wishes you all the most joyful Christmas, full of the riches of the Lord’s blessing and hope of life in Christ!
February 2020
The battle is ON! These guys are getting armed for battle and excited about their faith! We love to see how happy they are when they get their new study. This time, Priscilla Shirer’s Armor of God is up! Yes, our guys actually do like doing Priscilla Shirer studies. It’s family time Church family time, […]
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 […]