Missionaries To Asia

Due to the massive amount of information and updates for the New Beginnings Children’s Ministries we have had to open a separate website so that we can better present what the Lord is doing in this extension of Missionaries to Asia.

http://newbeginningsmta.org

God Bless!

In the past few years God has begun to lay a burden on our hearts to reach the fatherless. The forgotten children of the Philippines, those wandering the streets day and night, hungry, cold and alone. There are an astounding number of child victims to be seen everyday, whether they are victim to abuse, drug trafficking, prostitution, or even murder. They are what many people would refer to as hopeless. We are here to say that there is a hope, and there is a God and through him nothing is impossible!

Janet Taylor along with her eldest daughter Angela have been led by the Lord to open a boarding school to those lost children. To give them a safe environment to sleep, eat, play, attend school and to learn what the love of God really is. We have started by renting a house nearby, it has enough room to house roughly 20 children. It is a small start, but we feel that the Lord is leading us to greater things where His children are concerned.

Since we have opened  we have taken in 6 boys and 8 girls, all between the ages of four and fourteen.  There are still more children to come, waiting for a new beginning in life. And that is the name of  Missionaries To Asia’s new branch of ministry “New Beginnings Children’s Ministries and Boarding School”. We are excited about what the Lord has already begun to do in the lives of these children. The above picture shows our older children and teens with two staff getting ready to leave for youth camp.  We know the Lord has wonderful and mighty things planned for these children.

RUSSELL

I would like to introduce you to the lovely little girl smiling in this picture. Her name is Russell, pronounced (ROO-cell). One of our ministry workers  shared with Angela about a little girl with brain damage that was being abused and locked up.  The ministry worker then shared with the parents what our ministry was doing for children. They agreed to let us take her.  Angela went with a few people from our headquarters to rescue the little girl. They were able to drive only part of the way there, reaching her hut required some effort by climbing through broken walls and over large chunks of coral reef where the sea had receded to leave space for squatter houses squeezed up against each other. After arriving at the hut which is the size of a common dog house on stilts, they soon discovered that the house was padlocked shut with Russell (6yrs old) and her younger sister  Princess (3yrs old) alone inside. We were informed by the neighbors that the parents had locked them in there and then would leave them sometime for 3 or 4 days without any food or water. After waiting 45 minutes, the father was found. Thankfully Angela had experience working in therapeutic environments with children who had special needs, and as soon as she saw Russell she knew the issue under discussion was autism, and not brain damage. Russell slowly climbed down only wearing an over-sized tee-shirt.  She was covered in her own filth and began to drink water that was resting in dirty puddles on the ground. The father just ignored her and continued talking to the others. She refused to make eye contact and made no facial expression. Her hair hung very stringy and covered her face, she looked like something that had crawled out of a nightmare and somehow survived. We were told the father targeted her for special beatings, and would throw her out onto the rocks of the reef, even as a baby. Russell has so many scars on her body that we can’t even count them. She was severely malnourished, and can only wear clothes that would fit a two year old, which is odd considering she will be turning seven in September. It took one week of just showing kindness, feeding her, and caring for her before she would make eye contact and smile. After one month, she now laughs and has the appearance of a very sweet and beautiful little girl who loves to be held, and loves to be tickled. We were able to get her to the only specialist on the island, and she was indeed diagnosed with autism. She has been staying in the Taylor home, and is actually Angela’s roommate.  Her sister Prencess is living at our boarding school home nearby. Russell needed the extra care, and living at a home with a dozen other children with not enough staff for “one-on-one care” would not have been as progressive. We have high hopes for her. Every day is a new discovery, a new funny sound or a new word she learns is a joy to hear. Walking up and down the stairs without crawling in fear of falling. Going to bed was a challenge at first she is extremely terrified of the dark, which is understandable due to the environment she was trapped in. But now, with the help of a “Winnie the Pooh” night light, she now drifts off to sleep, relaxed and at ease. Angela has been informed that there are many more children just in our immediate area like Russell that are special and have been locked up in a prison of their own home by their parents. There is definitely a need for intervention and developmental growth in this field, Angela has grown a very strong personal burden for these children that have no words to cry out for help.

Please keep Russell and all the children we are caring for in your prayers, especially the children nearby that are living  in bondage. Russell’s  is only one story, we hope to reach more. We ask that you also keep those of us who will be working in New Beginnings in your prayers.