Happy Horizons Children's Ranch

The text said, “she is trying to kill herself”, she found a razor blade and was trying to slit her wrist. She is one of our new girls, just fifteen and yet life seems hopeless.
Having been sold into a brothel, newly rescued her life has been swirling around at breakneck speed.
Driving as fast as safely possible Nancy and couple of the staff made their way back from the Ranch to the safe house.
Two hours of couseling, prayer and tears showed a girl whose hope was gone. She had nothing to live for, only shame and pain that seemed unbearable.
However, we had the first small breakthrough. She has agreed to stay and hear what we have to say. As Nancy and ladies prayed for her she calmed down and it seemed that perhaps we had a first victory.
It takes weeks, months and a great deal of peeling away layers of trauma to get the ladies to see that God truely loves them and has a plan for their lives.
Keep Nancy and our team in your prayers, it is truely a spiritual as well as a psychological battle.

Glenn

Their eyes red from crying, the sat on the couch afraid and disoriented. Five little girls, all created in the image of God, but looking lost and helpless. They had just come from the girls facility run by the Social Welfare Dept here in Cebu. The DSWD turned them over to us to raise and nurture back to health.
All victims of incest and rape, the youngest just a mere eight years old and the oldest not yet a teenager, they are now our responsibility!
The two youngest girls are completely alone, not even friends. The three sisters try and comfort each other, while trying to make some sense of the moment. “Who are these people? I just want my mommy!” You can imagine the worry, the mistrust. Yet we are their life line. We are the ones charged by God to show them He hasn’t forgotten them. We are the physical presence of the Father for them.

We show them some new clothes we have prepared for each of them. A new doll and a cake and ice cream. They begin to be a bit more trusting. Lolo Nancy (that is what they call her, grandma) reassures each of them. But they are not too sure yet.

We stop to pray and ask the Father to reassure them, they are safe now, they are home.

Keep watching as we tell more of their story as they progress through the orientation to the transfer to the Ranch and begin their studies at Happy Horizons Academy.

Glenn