About us
Providing corrective surgeries is a life–changing event for the children at Langfang 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. Two years ago there were only 25 orphans at the Village. Now there are over 80 special needs children in our care. 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 Langfang to intervene and take a child into its care that they are not equipped to handle.
FOSTER CARE Once a child comes into Langfang, 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 Langfang helps special needs children is to provide them the surgical treatment they need. This also helps their chances of being adopted.
ADOPTION Langfang works with many adoption agencies in China and around the world to find homes for the orphans. Over 400 families have adopted children from Langfang Children’s Village.
Accomplishments & Services in 2007
CHINA
Children’s Compassion Fund provided financial support through the Philip Hayden Foundation, Temecula, CA, for operational expenses of Langfang Children’s Village in Hebei Province. LCV’s unique program focuses on special needs children and the provision of surgical treatments to correct their conditions. This quite often transforms “broken” children into normal, healthy kids, greatly increasing their chances for adoption. During the past decade, over 2,500 surgeries have been completed. Presently 124 children are in residence, 32 complex surgeries were performed last year, and 14 children were adopted by families in China, Europe, and the United States.
UNITED STATES
CCF supported the radio broadcasting ministries of KFFF AM/FM in Boone, IA, with grants for Christian children’s programming and production of child- and family-related public service announcements aired 12 times every day of the year.
CCF provided funding for children’s needs in Central Iowa through grants to Boone Hospital Foundation, Boy Scouts Eagle Project, Christ Church, Crosspointe Church, Steve Crosby Ministries, and Iowa Christian Alliance.
CCF shipped a truckload of assorted baled clothing weighing 37,500 pounds to a Native American mission in Manuelito, NM, to assist low-income Navajo families. Distribution was made by a network of local church volunteers from several denominations, and 20,000 individuals benefited from the shipment. Fair market value was $225,000.
Broken Hearts
There are 5 children at Langfang Children’s Village with heart problems. Some are minor, some are serious, and some are terminal. 95% of the orphans at Langfang Children’s Village have special needs of some variey but these heart babies represent the most serious category of problems. Loving concern for these children helps to care for them and provide surgeries. But for Asa, Jerry, Faith, Avenal and Michele financial support alone may not be sufficient. Please pray for these 5 precious ones, that God would be close to them and heal their broken hearts.
