Thanks to Jim Anderson for raising an issue that has been neglected over the years ("Religious orphanages good for kids" Jan. 1). An elderly American schoolteacher began an orphanage in 1972 in Olongapo, Philippines, after discovering a Fil-Am baby in a garbage bin just outside a Navy base. Encouraged by a $50 startup donation from the Subic Naval Base Chapel, she began taking children into her home. This evolved into the King's Fil-Am Home, which continues to care for Filipino children.
Our adopted daughter, now 42, was one of the first children taken into this simple but loving and caring orphanage. She came to us via an international adoption when she was a month shy of her 7th birthday. All we know of her background is that her biological mother placed her in the orphanage when she was 6 months old. Her mother could no longer take care of her. The orphanage did not release her for adoption until the birth mother legally surrendered her for this purpose.
R. is our fourth child, the youngest. She is a nurse navigator at a prominent hospital in Tennessee, mother of a delightful 13-year-old son, a marvelous daughter and a faithful sibling to her brother and two older sisters. Due to the devoted care given to her by the staff of the King's Fil-Am Home she came to us physically, mentally and spiritually whole.
The director of the King's Fil-Am Home sent a photo of the current "family" of 12 children and three amazing workers. Two of the staff have been serving there faithfully
Thanks to Jim Anderson for raising an issue that has been neglected over the years ("Religious orphanages good for kids" Jan. 1). An elderly American schoolteacher began an orphanage in 1972 in Olongapo, Philippines, after discovering a Fil-Am baby in a garbage bin just outside a Navy base. Encouraged by a $50 startup donation from the Subic Naval Base Chapel, she began taking children into her home. This evolved into the King's Fil-Am Home, which continues to care for Filipino children.
Our adopted daughter, now 42, was one of the first children taken into this simple but loving and caring orphanage. She came to us via an international adoption when she was a month shy of her 7th birthday. All we know of her background is that her biological mother placed her in the orphanage when she was 6 months old. Her mother could no longer take care of her. The orphanage did not release her for adoption until the birth mother legally surrendered her for this purpose.
R. is our fourth child, the youngest. She is a nurse navigator at a prominent hospital in Tennessee, mother of a delightful 13-year-old son, a marvelous daughter and a faithful sibling to her brother and two older sisters. Due to the devoted care given to her by the staff of the King's Fil-Am Home she came to us physically, mentally and spiritually whole.
The director of the King's Fil-Am Home sent a photo of the current "family" of 12 children and three amazing workers. Two of the staff have been serving there faithfully
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