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2025 Que Pasa Newsletters
Read stories and updates from the 2025 Que Pasa Newsletters. This is what your prayers and gifts are accomplishing!
India – DEWS Sweet Home Specific Giving Opportunities
An Opportunity to Care for “His Kids” in the New Year
Thanks to the support of caring ICC family members like you, the new year arrives filled with renewed hope that ICC’s children will continue to thrive. This is important for all “His Kids” but especially for the newly arrived children like the ones at Sweet Home Children’s Village in India that you see on this page. These children have come because of difficult and tragic circumstances, and they need the nurturing care that ICC family Read more…
Stories That Inspire
Remembering Malcolm Smith:Motorcycle Champion and Friend of “His Kids”
The heart of a warrior and champion has been quieted this past month. I say “quieted” because it cannot be silenced. Malcolm Smith was laid to rest this past month, but his heart will never be silenced due to the many lives he touched. I knew Malcolm personally, and I know just what an amazing heart this man not only had, but exercised every day.One of the many ways Malcolm used his big heart was Read more…
Stories That Inspire
An Answer to Prayer to Bless Orphan Children
By Rick Bowes Not long ago I heard the most amazing “two-part answered prayer story” from a lady named Fran Murphy. It seems that back in the year 2006, Fran, who lives in Athol, MA, and is a member of Athol SDA church family, was convicted that God was calling her to do something to help feed and clothe children who had been orphaned. Following up on that conviction, Fran began to investigate the various Read more…
Mexico – El Oasis Children's Village
Project Spotlight – El Oasis, Mexico – The Impact of Your Support
Over the next few months, we’ll be using this space to share information about the impact of your support on the lives of children around the world. This first update comes from El Oasis Children’s Village in Mexico. The children of El Oasis have joined another small Pathfinder Club nearby. They have been enjoying themselves very much. The club attended the area camporee and were thrilled to see themselves as part of a bigger group Read more…
Specific Giving Opportunities
Double Your Gift through the 2024 Christmas Hope Matching Challenge!
December 1, 2024 Dear Friend of the Children, Christmas is a time of reflection. And as I reflect upon the year that is past, I am grateful for God’s providential leading of ICC’s ministry for orphan and vulnerable children. I am also aware of the impossibility of this mission if it weren’t for the prayers and support of ICC’s faithful family members like you. God’s work through you is saving and transforming the lives of Read more…
Dominican Republic – Las Palmas Children's Village Stories About His Kids
Learning to Fly, Thanks to You! Nathalie’s Testimony, part 2
Editor’s Note: Last month, we shared the first part of Nathalie’s testimony which included her arriving at Las Palmas at the request of her dying mother. Nathalie grew up within a loving home at Las Palmas and learned to be responsible at an early age. She also learned “that your achievements do not define your value as a person and much less the work you do. Your value comes from the simple fact of existing Read more…
General Subjects
A Q & A with ICC President, Rick Fleck
Q: What types of things do you see project administrators and house parents dealing with that ICC family members may not be aware of? A: It’s likely that most ICC family members would not be aware of the scope or complexity of ICC administrators’ dealings with governments. This includes the rules and constant inspections as part of their oversight. This often causes interference with the operation of the children’s village because government officials aren’t used Read more…
India – DEWS Sweet Home Stories That Inspire
You Provide a “Place to Call Home”
Update in Pictures from India (Faces have been blurred in online version to protect identity of the children) Editor’s Note: These pictures tell the story of how your support is having a tremendous impact on the lives of children at ICC’s Sweet Children’s Village in India. You are providing not only a place for basic needs to be supplied, but you are also providing “a place to call home.” Thank you for all you do Read more…
Stories About His Kids
Learning to Fly, Thanks to You! – Nathalie’s Testimony, part 1
Editor’s Note: You may recall reading in the September Que Pasa a feature about the 40th anniversary of ICC’s Las Palmas Children’s Village in the Dominican Republic. The impact of your support goes on and on in the lives of current children as well as those who have become independent. Following is part one of an edited excerpt of a testimony from Nathalie, one of ICC’s grown children. Before my mother died, she asked a Read more…
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