Give an abandoned child a family that stays.
For 22 years Randy and Kathleen McReynolds have raised abandoned children in Chiang Rai, Thailand as their own sons and daughters. Monthly partners keep the doors open for the next child.
The need
Some children have nobody coming back for them.
In the villages around Chiang Rai, children are abandoned or lose their parents. Many families are too poor to keep a child in school. Without a home and an education, the road ahead is short and hard.
Foster care moves children from house to house. These kids need the opposite: the same mom and dad, the same bed, the same table, every year until they're grown.
Who we are
A proven 22-year investment, not a bold experiment.
Randy was a teacher in Wyoming. Kathleen ran two businesses in Loveland, Colorado. In 2004 they followed God to northern Thailand with a foundation that had $38 in it. They built a three-story home, raised children from as young as four weeks old, and stayed.
A real family
One mom and dad, for life. Most of the children they raised are grown now, and many still call home every week.
An education
Uniforms and supplies for 43 kids this year. Private school, college and trade school for those ready. Graduates work as nurses, secretaries and accountants.
Faith that leads
Sunday school, prayer, and a home where kids learn who Jesus is. Grown children are now coming back to serve.
How it works
Three steps to be part of the family.
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Choose a monthly gift
Start at $5 a month. Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Two minutes, and you can change it any time.
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Get one story a month
A short letter from Chiang Rai with one story and a few photos of what your gift did. That's it.
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Watch kids grow up
Children go from the front door to graduation, and some come home to raise the next ones. You'll see it happen.
What your gift does
Five dollars goes a long way in Chiang Rai.
Helps fill the Saturday food deliveries to village homes.
Give $5 monthlyKeeps a child in school: uniform, shoes, socks and supplies.
Give $25 monthlyFunds college and trade school for kids who are ready.
Give $50 monthlyCovers a third of a salary for a young adult raised in the home, now back on staff.
Give $100 monthlyWhat's next
The kids they raised are coming home to lead.
Nam is 28. Three rounds of rehab didn't hold, and then God got hold of him. Today he and his wife Pantene are preparing to run the ministry, with their first baby on the way.
Others are joining the staff at about $300 a month. Those salaries are the biggest new need, and with them the home can take in children again.
Our work
One home, and a whole village around it.
The children's home
Ban Dek Yin Dee, “House of Happy Children.” Three stories, fifteen bedrooms, one family.
School for 43 kids
Uniforms, shoes and supplies so village kids can stay in school, and help with what comes after.
Saturday food deliveries
Food goes door to door, to the families who actually need it.
Caring for elders
About 180 older neighbors receive new clothes and a gift at the yearly elders' festival.
Children's Day
Bicycles and teddy bears for the kids of the village, every year.
Sunday school
Once 150 kids strong, now restarting, led by the children Randy and Kathleen raised.
Projects
Fund something you can see.
Every project gift comes back with photos, receipts and a short report.
Stories
None of these finished in a year.
Sony
He ran for three years. Then he called home.
Prison, a phone call to Randy, and a job at Nike because “Dad taught me English.”
Read the storyMoat
“Mom, I miss my family.”
She left in 11th grade. Years later, she wrote home. This Christmas, everyone is coming back.
Read the storyThe home
Fifteen bedrooms and thirty-eight dollars.
The account was empty before almost every payment. By the time it came due, the money was there.
Read the storyRight now, the home can take in children again.
Monthly partners are what make it possible. Join them today.
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