Session on "The Voice of the Local Church in the WWO (World without Orphans) Movement" in the Global Forum for the WWO: 1) Vivienne Ng sharing about what churches & HFG-SG are doing in SG to provide foster families to kids who needs family care. 2) Shelton Taguma & Remmy Hamapande sharing about the work of Forgotten Voices in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, where a total of 5126 orphans have been impacted through the provision of family-based care via 59 partners. 3) Jodi Jackson-Tucker from Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) sharing about the reach of Orphan Sunday into 101 countries, as a mean to promote awareness of the orphan crisis and to galvanize the churches to action.

  It’s a fan girl moment with Elli Oswald from Faith To Action Initiative at the Global Forum for World Without Orphans! We have been so blessed by their high quality, research based and sensitive materials to educate the Christian community on the need to support families instead in perpetuating orphanage care for vulnerable children in mission fields! We use their materials for churches and Christians in Singapore who approach us on how to best help vulnerable children in mission fields! Do you know that UNICEF research shows that 70-90% of kids in orphanages have at least one living family member? Outcomes for kids in family based care such as foster care and kinship care are better too! You can find out more in Faith To Action's link! https://www.faithtoaction.org/start-here/ If you are a church or Christian supporter looking to transition from orphanage to family based care in the mission field, they even developed a guidance manual for this! https://www.faithtoaction.org

HFG-SG folks were at The Justice Conference Asia, held for the 1st time in SG, & org by Daniel Chua's church & others. Joy, Vi, Mercy, Lydia, Amy etc, were involved in diff ways - speaking, supporting, attending, organizing etc!! And professionals working with vulnerable children & Epworth Fostering Agency were there too!!! Sobering bible verses cited by keynote speaker Rev Eugene Cho, founder of One Day's Wages, remind us again of what is truly important to God... “I can’t stand your religious meetings. I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making. I’ve had all I can take of your noisy ego-music. When was the last time you sang to me ? Do you know what I want? I want justice—oceans of it. I want fairness—rivers of it. That’s what I want. That’s all I want." Amos 5:21-24 (MSG) Ken Wytsma unders

  PTL!! The church in Singapore is standing behind fostering.. wonderful prayer of dedication for those of us involved in helping single moms, the unborn, orphans, children who need out of home care, kids with disability etc. Thanks to all who helped out - Li Ping + Joy for their heartfelt sharing; and for Hwee Ling, Doris, Lee Hwa, Mark/Sue, Chang Loong/Ai Cheng, Vi, Chin Meng/Phay Ling who took shifts manning the booth. Many people signed up to find out more! And we saw Wendy, Raymond/Miriam, Roland/Michelle etc around too!! Lemme know if we miss anyone out? Fabulous showing and wonderful support. Thanks to the organisers of Life Fest!! And our booth partners, Salvation Army !! God bless u all and God bless the children!!!

HFG-SG at the charity premiere of "Unplanned". V moving & enlightening. We wanna play our role to support moms/dads with unplanned preg, by befriending or fostering. And look!!! We finally hv our own banner, kindly made & sponsored by Hwee Ling!! (NB. HFG is NOT a charity so we don't receive any proceeds. We are just a network of foster parents. Pl pray and join us!)