PHILIPPINES REPORT: Our team delivering food and supplies to the elderly. What a blessing to share the love of Christ, pray with them, and be an encouragement to their lives. Please continue to pray for our projects in the Philippines as we diligently work to rescue those who are in great need! Our mission to […]
Author: Karissa Washburn
Karissa is co-founder of Bless An Orphan International. She is living our her lifelong passion of rescuing children from neglect and abuse. She and her husband Marshall live with their three children in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Mission Philippines is moving forward!
We are so happy to announce that our projects in the Philippines are underway! There are millions of children around the world who desperately need our help. We will go wherever the Lord opens a door so that we can rescue more of His precious forgotten children. The overwhelming number of abandoned, neglected, orphaned, and […]
Praise Him in the storm
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 We’ve all faced a storm in our lives. Those dark clouds come rolling in. The waves start to build. The boat begins to rock. You feel you may drown. You question when the skies will part again and so you feel the sun warm […]
We have nothing
Our hearts are filled with immense gratitude to our merciful God and to YOU for making it possible to bring, even the smallest ounce of relief to so many. We hear over and over again, “We have nothing. Our children have not eaten in days.” However, even while those hands are still empty, they raise […]
Animal cracker tears
When Marshall and I first began the work of Bless An Orphan, I was worried that this work would be far greater than anything we could ever manage. The truth is, it is. But what we have learned is that our God is that much bigger and He does the impossible so that we can […]
A gift so small
You need to read this story! It’s so humbling and helps to keep things in to perspective. See the large floor fan in the picture? We took this fan to this coastal village church whom now work with in an effort to care for severely impoverished children. The church is nothing more than tin, bamboo, and dirt. […]
Philippines Project
I can’t just sit by and know it’s happening without doing something! When we said, “God send us,” we meant it. There are millions of suffering children in this world. We know we can’t save every child, but we sure are going to give it our all and try to rescue as many as we can. […]
Earthquake Relief for Ecuador
The devastation on the coast of Ecuador after the earthquake on April 16th is far worse than you can imagine. We have focused our relief efforts on a coastal community that we had already been working in for the past year and a half. They have yet to receive any outside help or government support. […]
A Tender Touch
We had just finished feeding several hundred very poor children, families, and elderly individuals. Now it was time to pass out gifts for each. The children all received a small gift (a doll or a car) along with a bag of mixed goodies with cookies and candies. The families and the elderly each received a […]
Jesus loves His children
I have a million and one things to be thankful for, don’t you? I am so very, very thankful that Jesus loves me. Where would I be without His love? His love has brought me through the most difficult times of my life, embraced me when I have felt overwhelmed, saved me from my own […]