God Answers Prayers and Calms Fears

In Cottage 1, one of my many responsibilities is to wake the boys in the morning. With all of our boys, I frequently ask them “How did you sleep last night?” After they give me their response, I tell them “Ask me how I slept.” When they ask I usually reply “I’m not sure…I wasn’t…

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Nehemiah's Baptism

This is the story of Nehemiah’s journey to faith and acceptance of Jesus in baptism.  It is written by his House Dad, Bobby Jackson in Cottage 1. Over the past few months, Nehemiah asked his house parents and Bible teachers questions about salvation.   Earlier, he saw several other boys get baptized.  He again told…

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It Takes All of Us!

The New Mexico Christian Children’s Home is supported by the generosity of many donors.  What is truly awesome is the variety of our donors.  Some donors are able to give large amounts of money that have helped us build Hope Haven for Single Parent families or provided scholarships for our students and single moms to…

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Our Ambassador to Oregon!

  About 5 years ago, NMCCH had a Public Relations representative working in the Northwest.  One day he visited the Church of Christ in Prineville, Oregon.  His presentation on the Home made a profound impact on a four year old young lady, Moriah.  For the past five years, Moriah has kept the children at the…

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Breaking the Cycle

Recently, the youth group from the Santa Fe Church of Christ in Santa Fe, New Mexico spent a few days of their spring break with us to volunteer at the Home.  This group of 6 young people and 2 adult sponsors visited our Home to serve for a long weekend.  They interacted with our residential…

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Garden of Honor

There is a room reserved on our campus to honor “all who love and provide for children.”  Their service may have been in the form of long term employment at the Home, exemplary service or major financial or volunteer contributions.  In the past couple of months, we have inducted several staff and board members into…

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Hope Haven Funding is Complete!

God is good!  He continues to provide for our needs at the New Mexico Christian Children’s Home.  Last September, I reported that we were nearing completion of the Hope Haven project and only lacked $999,000 to complete this project.  We began in 2015 with the expectation that it would take us 5-10 years to raise…

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2017: A Year of Blessings and Growth

Our good work is about you and because of you!  You make a difference in so many lives, transforming them to a higher level, teaching them the ways of God, blessing them for a better life on earth and eternity in heaven! In 2017, you took care of more children than ever before in the history…

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Counting our Blessings!

Recently, I spoke at a church on the theme of “being thankful” and used the passage about Jesus healing the 10 lepers in Luke 17.  You might remember the story.  Ten men who are suffering from the dreadful and incurable disease of leprosy cry out to Jesus from a distance for healing.  Without seeming to…

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Dinner and Mentoring with Cannon AFB

A group of amazing volunteers from the Supply Squadron of Cannon Air Force Base came out on Saturday evening, November 4 to share Thanksgiving Dinner and an evening of mentoring with our junior high and high school children.  The Cannon group provided a full Thanksgiving spread of turkey, ham, all the fixins’ and some wonderful…

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