As we traveled slowly down the dusty, bumpy roads, I couldn’t help but think of the atrocious genocide that had happened 28 years ago here in Rwanda. The first thing I did after landing in Rwanda was to visit the Rwandan Genocide Museum. From that point on, I looked at everyone from an age standpoint. Anyone over age 28 was a survivor of the horror that happened over a 100-day period in 1994. And everyone had a story to tell.

Jambo from Kitale, Kenya! After working with my ministry partner in Kitale for over three years, I was thrilled to be able to travel there and see what you have been achieving through the Widows & Abandoned Women Ministry. All the women being served through Heaven’s Family have harrowing stories of hardship and hopelessness. But after they cried out to God in their desperation, He heard their prayers. Our ministry team traveled all over Kitale throughout the week to visit 24 women in two days! You have changed the lives of these women, and it is obvious in their spiritual joy!

“God told me He was going to give me a gift and I didn’t know what it was!” exclaimed 105-year-old Francesca. Her bent-over, fragile frame overflowed with joy, praising her Lord and Savior as I introduced myself on a recent trip to Guatemala. Francesca was one of several women you blessed with new beds and water filters. She was delighted and a delight to behold.

Josephina is a 79-year-old widow whom you have been supporting through your investments in Heaven's Family's Widows & Abandoned Women Ministry for food insecurities. When I visited her in San Pedro, Guatemala in November of last year, I discovered that she had been cooking on a primitive stone "stove" and sleeping on a dilapidated foam mattress.

Thank you so much for faithfully and diligently giving to the women we serve together here at the Widows & Abandoned Women Ministry of Heaven’s Family!

It is always such a blessing to be able to see God working in people's lives! I'd like to introduce you to Mary Wangari, our sister—a new creation in Christ! She became a member of God's family several months ago.

Our partner in Saboti, Kenya standing with some of the widows who received blankets and mattresses in December. Formerly, they have slept on newspapers and rags on the floor.