About us
Providing corrective surgeries is a life–changing event for the children at Shepherd’s Field Children’s Village. It transforms them. It also increases their sense of self-worth and greatly increases the chance that they will be adopted. Langfang Children’s Village is intended to be a center of light and love to the people of China. The time it takes for children to go through the Four Steps to Hope is steadily declining.
Four steps to hope
INTERVENTION Often it is the local orphanages themselves who ask Shepherd’s Field to intervene and take a child into its care that they are not equipped to handle.
FOSTER CARE Once a child comes into Shepherd’s Field, the orphanage becomes the child’s new home until adoption. The homes are designed to model a normal family environment as much as possible. There are full–time doctors and nurses to care for medical needs.
SURGERY Part of the way Shepherd’s Field helps special needs children is to provide them the surgical treatment they need. This also helps their chances of being adopted.
ADOPTION Shepherd’s Field works with many adoption agencies in China and around the world to find homes for the orphans. Over 400 families have adopted children from Shepherd’s Field Children’s Village.
Accomplishments & Services in 2010-2011
CHINA
Children’s Compassion Fund sent a grant to the Philip Hayden Foundation to support its program providing life-saving surgeries for special needs orphans in China. There are 140 children who are temporary residents of Shepherd’s Field Children Village in Tianjin. Each suffers from a birth deformity, such as cleft lip or palate, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, clubbed feet, heart defect, hydrocephalus, or missing limbs. Each is provided with loving care and corrective surgeries before they are cleared for adoption. Last year 27 children received life-changing surgeries, and 27 others joined their adoptive families. Since its founding in 1995, close to 900 children have been adopted and more than 3,000 life-changing surgeries have been provided.
JAMAICA
CCF shipped a 40-ft sea container filled with medical supplies to Ellerslie Pen in Kingston, Jamaica, to benefit families and needy children with hospital care. Included were 13 pallets of hospital/surgical linens, 8 pallets of general medical/surgical supplies, and 1 pallet of miscellaneous medical equipment. The shipment had a total fair market value of $462,000.
NEPAL
CCF sent a grant to Mendies Haven Children’s Home in Kathmandu, Nepal, to help provide care for 32 orphans, from age 3 to 23. There are 20 girls and 12 boys under its legal guardianship. Mendies Haven has been in operation since 1953, rescuing hundreds of destitute children, many of whom have grow up to be solid Nepali citizens holding responsible professional positions—nurses, teachers, mechanics and electricians, as well as pastors of new Christian churches.
Broken Hearts
There are many children at Shepherd’s Field Children’s Village with heart problems. Some are minor, some are serious, and some are terminal. 95% of the orphans at Shepherd’s Field Children’s Village have special needs of some variety but these heart babies represent the most serious category of problems. Loving concern for these children helps to care for them and provide surgeries. Please pray for these precious ones, that God would be close to them and heal their broken hearts.
