The Gathering Place, Episode 1. In this edition of The Gathering Place, we interview Ricardo Medina. Ricardo grew up at the El Oasis Children’s Village in Baja, Mexico. As a result of your support, Ricardo graduated from medical school in Spring 2020. He graduated as a dental surgeon. Read more Read more…
A Child of War Georime never knew her parents. They died in a rebel insurgence when she was only six-months old. During the 1990s and early 2000s, war tormented the Democratic Republic of Congo. Many children received an inheritance of trauma from the ongoing insurgent warfare. Georime felt this trauma Read more…
Can you remember… The scent of a freshly sharpened pencil, The kaleidoscope of colors in a big box of 64 crayons, The glossy feel of a textbook cover as you opened it the first time, The distinct sound made when you clicked open your three-ring notebook to insert paper? There’s Read more…
Stephen was born in a village with little educational opportunities in Ghana. His father repaired roofing to provide for the family. His mother stayed home to care for her five children. Then, all too quickly, life for Stephen dramatically changed. There was a faulty board in the roof rafters where Read more…
Just before Christmas in 1997 Mexican authorities decided to close two deteriorating orphanages. Twenty-four orphan children needed a place to live and we were asked to take the children. Even though the El Oasis Children’s village was not completed, ICC administrator’s decided to welcome them into the ICC family. What Read more…
Carson’s Inspiring Story of Giving it All On Friday, June 12, an ICC office worker opened an envelope sent in by a donor and found a check for $15.60. Along with the check, the envelope contained the following brief explanation. “My seven-year-old son, Carson, read your newsletter before I could Read more…
Even the current world-wide pandemic can’t dampen our excitement for the three young ladies who recently graduated from the Adventist High School in Bucharest Romania at the end of June. Florentina “Flori,” Valentina “Teo,” and Daniela “Bety” successfully navigated the final year of high school, having to take their last Read more…
Construction has begun on a new Sabbath School classroom building at the Los Pinos Children’s Village in Guatemala. This is a project funded partially through the children’s village church itself and donations from ASI and Versacare. Joel Carpio, Administrator (pictured on the left in the photo), shared the following update: Read more…
UPDATED AUG 2020. The first picking of peppers has been completed successfully at the El Oasis farm in Mexico and what a harvest it was! There were 108 tons of Tomatillos and 124 tons of three different kinds of chili peppers – jalapeño, Serrano, and Guerito. This is a terrific Read more…
God has recently provided for the Las Palmas Children’s Village in a special way. A man in a nearby town wanted to do something to help people during the pandemic. Unsure where to start, he called a newspaper reporter to ask for ideas of what or who he could help. Read more…
