Here are just a few of the folks receiving help and hope from friends of New Thing in the past couple weeks. These are overnight guests...

I’m delighted to report that we made the goal, and all the graduating orphans at Kobryn will receive Life Starter Kits! God bless all who...

One of the house moms at the Children’s Village in Kobryn, Belarus, kindly made up a dossier on the orphans who will graduate this...

Every year, we have the joy of providing “Life Starter Kits” for orphans as they “age out” of the Children’s Village at Kobryn in...

I wrote a couple weeks ago about Alina, a little girl we found at a shelter for abused and abandoned children in Zhodino, Belarus, nearly...

Water won’t stop. Try to stop it, and it will find a way. The Grand Canyon was carved not by human hands, not by massive machines, but by...

A child should be loved and cared for. But sometimes they’re not. We began our work of compassion in the town of Zhodino, long ago....

A dear friend emailed me this past week and asked an honest question. She serves on a committee that disburses funds for good causes....

The little girl is on the left. At least that’s how I think of the mommy in the photo. We met Alina on our very first trip to the shelter...

These are heartbreaking days in and around my adopted homeland. But good things can happen, even in bad times. Aid is still getting into...