Showing Up – a mama’s love
One of the hardest things we witness is the love between a mother and her children when life has placed impossible barriers between them. This mama comes to visit her babies. Her circumstances are difficult. She does not have stable housing and is working through challenges that make it impossible for her babies to safely […]
Safe Enough to Cry
I thought I had the happiest, easiest baby ever. When Julia came to us, she was almost a year old, though we were told she was only six months old. She was wearing 3–6 month clothing and was significantly smaller than she should have been. Yet from the very beginning, she seemed content. No, not […]
What You Don’t See Changes Everything
If you walked through our baby home on a normal day, you probably wouldn’t notice anything spectacularly remarkable. You would see babies being fed, held, and changed. You’d see aunties moving about doing laundry, taking babies on walks, delivering snacks to cottages or the play area. You’d see uncles slashing grass, playing tag with the […]
The Ministry of Ordinary Faithfulness
The theology of routine caregiving It doesn’t always look significant. Much of the real “work” we do, the everyday chores, the caretaking of the babies is actually pretty mundane and repetitive. Feeding babies, washing bottles, changing diapers. Faithfulness in the Everyday There’s a tendency to look for impact in big moments like milestones, transitions, […]
Poverty vs. Abandonment
It’s easy to assume that when a child is alone, they must not have a family. But that’s often not the full story. MOST CHILDREN HAVE FAMILY Many children who enter care do have family somewhere—parents, relatives, extended connections. What’s often missing isn’t relationship.It’s stability. Poverty, crisis, and lack of support can push families […]
The Myth of “They Won’t Remember”
When a very young child goes through something difficult, a common reassurance follows: “They won’t remember anyway.” It sounds comforting.It sounds merciful. But it depends on what we mean by remember. We usually think of memory as stories — moments we can describe later. First birthdays, first homes, certain places. Babies don’t keep memories that […]
Why Family Should Always Be the Goal
Around the world, children’s homes, or orphanages, exist because sometimes children cannot safely stay where they were. That is also why we exist. We are a temporary baby rescue center. Babies come to us in moments of crisis, and for a time we become their consistent caregivers, their temporary family. We learn them, soothe them, […]
Love is Not a Feeeling – It’s Predictability
Many people assume babies need more attention, more toys, or more stimulation to thrive. But what they need most is far quieter than that — and it shapes every decision we make in how we care for them.
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 […]
July – In Pictures
Meet Whitney Welcome new baby, Whitney, to Haven of Hope! She is a four month old bundle of joy, laughs and jabbers. This girl is always smiling, and you should see her little body move and sway the moment she hears music! Full Circle My home church, First Baptist Church Midland, Texas, came to visit […]