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. 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 2008–2009
CAMEROON
Children’s Compassion Fund provided a grant to World-Wide Missions Cameroon to assist in reopening the Christian high school at Mpundu. The school had been closed and in disrepair for several years. With a refurbished building and new curriculum, over 400 students are enrolled currently.
CHINA
CCF 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 Lang Fang Children’s Village and 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 22 children received life-changing surgeries, and 31 joined their adoptive families.
MEXICO
CCF shipped a 40-ft sea container filled with clothing and supplies to Centro Cristiano Poder de Dios in Mexico City to benefit suffering children and families. Included were 40,000 lbs of baled clothing, 1,010 lbs of hygiene items, and 869 lbs of infant clothing, quilts, baby formula and supplies. The shipment had a total fair market value of $240,000.
RUSSIA
CCF provided travel expenses for Board President Jamie Johnson’s trip to visit Christian children’s ministries in Russia and Ukraine. He visited Fr. George Adelstein, a Russian Orthodox priest and the orphanage he oversees that cares for over 100 abandoned and abused children, including medical attention, a full K-12 education, and vocational training for them. Later he visited Dr. Andrei Revtov in Odessa, Ukraine, and the House of Hope. While there he saw 7,000 homeless children being fed. Some of them are only 3 or 4 years old and were found living in the city dump and eating from garbage cans. About 200 other children, who had been rescued from sex trafficking, receive love and care in orphanages until they can be connected with families and churches. Job training and career counseling are provided so they can eventually become self-supporting.
USA
CCF supported broadcasting of programs for children and families and the production of public education spots for radio station KFFF in Boone, Iowa (99.3 FM and 1260 AM). The stations cover more than 1.5 million potential listeners and seek to promote Christian family values.
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.
