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…
Read MoreHope 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…
Read More2017: 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…
Read MoreCounting 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…
Read MoreDinner 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…
Read MoreWhat's a Bicycle Rodeo?
Well, I’m glad you asked! At NMCCH, a bicycle rodeo is an opportunity to connect our children and families with donated bikes and have some fun in the process. We received a large donation of bicycles from several places and many of them needed minor repairs. We were wrestling with the best way to distribute these…
Read MoreSharnelle and Heather put on Christ!
Sharnelle has been in the Single Parent Ministry for about a year now. She moved here with her four children from a transitional home in Carlsbad. One of her children suffers from cancer of the eye but has received excellent treatment and help from St. Jude’s Hospital and the Make a Wish Foundation. She enrolled…
Read MoreHope Haven is Nearing Completion!
Hope Haven began in 2015 with a dream to build 16 quality new duplexes to expand our services to single parent families. Prior to beginning construction, we thought this would be a 5-10 year project that would eventually allow us to increase our service to single parent families from 10 to around 42. We committed…
Read MoreIt's a Labor of Love… and Patience… and..!
One of our staff members (Thank you Mary for the pictures!) witnessed this scene the other morning. It seemed that it was taking an unusual amount of time to load the cottage van to leave for school. Our staff member, Mary went to check it out to see if there was a problem she could…
Read MoreSam – Spotlight on a Champion
One of our residents, Sam, has been participating in the Shooting Stars 4-H Club this year. He has had to get up early all summer to feed and groom his animals. He has had to learn how to work with pigs, sheep and goats, care for them and learn how to show them. Sam entered…
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