With the addition of our new staff Su Hkawng, we have opened our first office here in Chiangmai, Thailand. We are excited about the possibilities of expanding our ministries but more importantly the quality of what we do. Through planning for training of our orphanage staff to expanding our ministry here in Chiangmai, we are hoping to make mature disciples for Jesus Christ. Please continue to pray for us that we will always be in line with God's perfect and wonderful will. Happy New Year and many blessings in 2012!

We are delighted to be able to build a new playground for our young children at Sunflower Orphanage in Vietnam. We had planned for this for a while but weren't able to until now. What a wonderful Christmas present for our kids! Thank you for making this possible for our young ones.

Our Shapan Orphanage is in difficult situation due to the renewed armed conflict between Kachin Army and Burmese Army. Kachin State, which Shapan is located, has no language and cultural connection with Burma but was lumped together as one country after the WWII. They were given autonomy to govern independently but Burma has never recognized this and wants full control over Kachin and it's natural resources. There were temporary ceasefire in place but over the summer of 2011, armed conflict started again and our orphanage is in one of the centers of this conflict. Please pray for the safety of our children and for peace in this poor state. For more information and up to date news about Kachin, you can visit: www.kachinnews.com.

Elijah Foundation has been supporting Khaodee by providing food, shelter, and education for the children of Khaodee since 2001.  This past June (2011), members of re:ACTS Ministries and Pastor Danny of Elijah foundation met to discuss our common heart and love for Khaodee.  It was during this meeting that God formed a partnership between re:ACTS Ministries and Elijah Foundation to support Khaodee together.
In our partnership, Elijah Foundation will shift our focus to fully funding Khaodee's college ministry, to help disciple and mentor the smaller group of older children of Khaodee. re:ACTS Ministries will now focus on providing for the food, shelter, and education cost of the rest of the 80 children at Khaodee.  We are excited to see how God will use this partnership for His glory!
About re:ACTS Ministry: this group has fallen in love with Khaodee since their first visit about 5 years ago and have been a constant presence at Khaodee. They have organized as a 501 C 3 non profit organization this year (2011). For more information about re:ACTS ministry and to support Khaodee’s general operation, please visit: www.reactsministries.org. 

This summer, Lisa Cheong of Ratanak Foundation has taken the leap of faith and has moved to Phnom Penh as full-time missionary/representative of Ratanak in Cambodia. It is exciting to see her take this step after many years of praying about it. To read her blogs of her new ministry and about her transition, visit http://www.ratanakmissions.blogspot.com/

Website update for our newest orphanage (Shapan Orphanage in Burma) is finished as we finally got all the pictures of our staff and children. You can check out the updates HERE.

We recently painted our Sunflower Orphanage with exciting images to assist in our children's development. Click Here

EF has started a new ministry! It is our first introduction into the country of Burma. Shapan Boarder Orphanage is in Mai Ja Yang City, Kachin State - which is in the northeastern tip of Burma. For the introductory blog, CLICK HERE.

Latest pictures of our beautiful children at Sunflower Orphanage, Vietnam (March 24, 2011). This album includes our latest baby boy 57. Quoc Thien. It is amazing to see these children grow up so fast. For pictures, CLICK HERE.

For the new academic year that starts on June, 2011, we are sending 13 students to college or to technical college. This is the most college students we ever had at one time and management has been overwhelming. We are looking for a new house in Chiang Rai to house all 13 students and 1 staff and are raising support to send our students to college. Please consider partnering with us to send our students to college. If interested in partnering in this special way, CLICK HERE.

To feed an entire orphanage of growing children (ranging from 70 to 100 children) and their helping staffs everyday, it takes tremendous amount of energy, effort, and resources. Due to the tremendous rising cost of food, it is very difficult to provide an exceptional menu other than the basics everyday. To provide the staff some rest from cooking and to provide our children with different and yet very special meal, we have started a program in which donors can pick a menu item to provide for the entire orphanage. For a relatively low cost, a donor can feed an entire orphanage which otherwise would be out of reach for a regular meal. For a special occasions like Thanksgiving or Christmas or to celebrate a sponsor child’s or even donor/sponsor’s birthday, you can choose to bring a smile to our children who loves to eat! If interested in partnering in this special way, CLICK HERE.

Sponsor Child - At Sunflower Orphanage in Vietnam, we are in need to find sponsors for our children. Currently, we have only 30 out of 57 children who has a sponsor. If interested, please view our children and record your sponsorship today.

NCPC (New Community Presbyterian Church) from Chicago sent 12 member short-term team to Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, Thailand in February, 2011. This team supported a Lek Project for Agape Home near Chiang Mai and for the second half of their trip, they supported projects and ministries at Khaodee Orphanage in Chiang Rai. They painted new girls dorm addition and help finished the project so girls can have space to study. They also worshiped together and ate so much good food together. It was really an enjoyable trip!

Flood Damage Repair - Our Sunflower Orphanage in Nha Trang was in need of many repair due to the recent flooding (October to November 2010). This flooding was one of the worst in many years and waters came into the first floor of our orphanage. Walls surrounding the orphanage was severely damaged and many walls completely collapsed. With the generous donations from many of our supporters, we were able to rebuild the walls and fix/touch up many other parts of the orphanage. Thank you! For pictures, click here.