A new Throne Room for the Children of Cerete is completed!

  It didn’t take long for the men and women of Cerete to put Orchid’s $3000.00 grant to good use. The materials were purchased and the trucks arrived bringing hope and celebration with them. The gifts were unloaded as if it were Christmas and the Elves go to work!           Then […]

Stories of Success: Project Playground

In March of 2013 Orchid launched 12 campaigns in support of it’s missions. Each with a $5000 goal. One of those campaigns was to help build a playground for the children of the Mahanaim community of Rabo Largo Columbia. You can read more about the need, vision and project here:  http://orchidsoflight.org/where-do-the-children-play/ Thanks to an outpouring […]

Where do the children play?

I have fond memories of soaring high on a swing and building towering castles of sand in my local neighborhood playground. For so many, these playful pictures remained engraved in our hearts and minds and were truly formation in our childhood development. Do you remember laughing and jumping in a playground? Have you seen the […]

Why You Matter

  You matter because where once there was nothing now there are walls, a roof and electricity You matter because with you Miracles happen. You matter because you cared enough to Be A Transformation. You matter because you answered the call to to help a community Bloom. And at the end of 2012 You and […]

“The Almighty is his guiding light in all its activities”.

Those words open the latest letter from our beloved Milton Torres and his Mahanaim Mission in the Cordoba district of Colombia making it clear that your work is His work and His work like yours is the work of LOVE. In the investment report sent to Orchid Milton tells us “We are enjoying the benefits […]

Mahanaim – Barranquilla, Colombia

When a successful lawyer has three dreams exhorting him to give up his successful practice and trade his robes in for a sleeping bag so he can aid a desperate Barrio in Barranquilla Colombia Mahanaim is born. Milton Torres arrives in the slums of this populace city with nothing more than the bag on his back and candy […]