Anton’s Christmas Story
Johnny I do remember Christmas eve of 2007. It was a wild night, the icy cold temperatures were well established. Sorin and I were trying to get the last Christmas shoe boxes delivered before we joined a group of carolers to serenade the main street of Arad. Our last stops were in the village of Zimandu Nou about 15 miles outside of Arad. There were 5 families we had been spending time with in this village over the past 3 years. Our last delivery of the night was at Daniel and Olivia’s house and as we had done at each of the other 4 houses we visited in this village already, we climbed...
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Dear Friends, Last night I received a phone call re a gentleman to went to a Walmart in Farmington, NM yesterday to purchase needed items on reservation near there. I was told that he stood in line for 1 ½ hours to get in, and then the shelves were empty. I have recently read of people sitting in food lines for 12 hours to obtain food for their families.—and I could go on and on but I imagine most of you are aware of these situations. My question is, “Do we take our blessings for granted?” We can never list all of the blessings that the Lord has poured out on us and I hope that we will...
Read MoreEMMY GRACE’S STORY ABOUT GHITA
Emmy Grace is the daughter of the couple who was in Romania for about 11 years with our ministry there. Today she is an RN but with a passion for mission work. Anyway, she wrote this story. Johnny...
Read MoreThe Path That We Have Trod
This book, “The Path That We Have Trod”, was written by my mother in law, Mrs. Harold Brown, but known to everyone here at Fairhaven as “Sweetie”. I had wanted her to write this introduction, but her health is not good at this time. This book is simply the story of the path of life that she and her husband, Brother Harold Brown, shared from the time they were very young until God led them to start the ministry to children. It describes their walk of faith for so many years and some of the trials they faced. As with everything that is accomplished through Fairhaven, whether here or halfway...
Read MoreTHE MIRACLE OF THE VITAMINS
THE MIRACLE OF THE VITAMINS In the early fall of 1998, we had heard of an orphanage in the southern part of Romania, where children were starving to death. I asked one of our coworkers to check into this and see if it was really true. Within 24 hrs, they had confirmed that, indeed, 5 children had already died of malnutrition, and, probably, 3 others would within the next 3-4 days. I asked our coworkers to take all of the money we had there and to go and purchase what food they could to help. In the meantime, we worked on getting other organizations involved. No other children died of...
Read MoreKIDS PRAY FOR THE FUNDING OF A CONTAINER
KIDS PRAY FOR THE FUNDING OF A CONTAINER One of the things we have been privileged to do, because of the love and concern of so many others, is to ship Christmas Joy Boxes to children and Christmas Joy Bags to the elderly in Romania for Christmas each year. We try to load this container on the first Saturday in November in order to assure that it will be in Romania in plenty of time for our coworkers to deliver all of these before Christmas. I tell people that one of the benefits of the Lord allowing us to help others is that it gives the children here at Fairhaven a chance to be on on the...
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