children’s home.

We spent this morning visiting a children’s home nestled at the base of the Himalayas.  The director works for our agency and is apart of the team we are getting to know this week.

The children who live here are not orphans; their parents have leprosy, and so have to live in leper colonies.  The home is a place for the children of lepers to grow up and get an education and be able to avoid catching this contagious disease (kids are tested for some time after they arrive, and those who do show early signs of leprosy are treated and cured).

One of the things I love most about this home, is that we have several friends — married to team members or working for the home or in other areas — and one who even lives with his wife in our neighborhood down south, who grew up in this home.  This ministry truly does give these children both a chance to know Jesus and a future.