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Real Lives. Real Transformation.

Stories of Impact

From orphan care in India to foster families in Florida, these are the lives your giving and partnership make possible. Every story is proof that the Church can change everything.

Wayne Lanier, founder of Labor of Love International, foster care and orphan care advocate
A staff member at our children's home in India
India

Redemption and Care: A Staff Member's Story

How a staff member at our children's home in India found redemption, purpose, and community through faithful service and care.

A child at our children's home in India
India

Hope and Education: A Child's Story

How a child at our children's home in India found education, community, and hope. A story of what care and opportunity make possible.

A pastor serving in central India
Pastor Stories

A Pastor's Story: Faithful Service in Central India

A pastor with years of faithful service, now deepened by theological training. The Awakening Bible Training Center gives leaders the depth to sustain and multiply ministry.

A ministry leader serving across India
Pastor Stories

A Leader's Story: Multiplying Ministry in India

One leader oversees a network of congregations across his region. The multiplying effect of equipping leaders to serve and strengthen local churches.

Wayne and Diana Lanier
U.S. Foster Care

Wayne & Diana's Family, 35 Years of Foster Care & Adoption

Six children. Five adopted. Every one affected by FASD. Thirty-five years of navigating, learning, building, and sharing what works. The story that started everything.

Awakening Bible Training Center building in India
India

Rays of Hope: Awakening Bible Training Center in India

We are equipping local pastors and lay leaders in Raipur, India with the theological training they've long needed through the Awakening Bible Training Center.

Clean water well in a rural Indian village
India

Wells of Hope: Where Clean Water Meets Living Water

In rural communities across India, access to clean water changes everything. Each well provides safe water to entire communities.

Parent and child hands together
U.S. Foster Care

Foster Care, Adoption, & FASD, Hope for the Journey

For more than 30 years, our lives have been deeply shaped by the foster care and adoption journey. Each of our five adopted children has been impacted by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.