Family Trips to Dorie’s Promise: The Johnson’s

Every year, hundreds of people visit Dorie’s Promise as part of our teams. Although we enjoy everyone who visits, when families serve together, something special happens. This week we want to highlight the Johnson family (Kevin, Debi, Sarah, and Josh) of Michigan. Their First Trip to Guatemala...

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Seeing Needs and Serving Families

We believe God has called us to serve the forgotten children of Guatemala. Within our home, we care for 40 children who were orphaned or abandoned, but there are many more children who need our help as well. What if we could prevent children from entering Guatemala’s orphanages? Although we can’t...

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2018: Our Year to Refocus Missions

The 2018 mission trip season is quickly approaching at Dorie’s Promise and we’re readying our home for more than 300 visitors. Recently, our staff met to discuss our home, our children, and what we want 2018 to look like at Dorie’s Promise. Mixing the daily needs of 40 children with 300 visitors...

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Bringing Baseball to Dorie’s Promise

It’s not every week we host a professional baseball player at Dorie’s Promise. So imagine the excitement for our children when New York Yankee’s pitcher Ben Heller visited in December. We caught up with Ben a few weeks ago to follow up on his trip and plans heading into spring training. Ben’s...

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Behind the Scenes: Meet our Board of Directors

Forever Changed International owes a debt of gratitude to the four women who serve along with founder, Heather Radu, as our Board of Directors. These women help guide us, make tremendous contributions with their time and talents, and are our biggest supporters. We would like to thank them for...

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Exciting News for Pastora Mercedez

For the last four years, visiting teams at Dorie’s Promise have faithfully served the children at Casa de Pan feeding center outside the Guatemala City landfill. The weekly visits with Pastora Mercedez and her staff have been a staple of our community work. Pastora Mercedez works with some of the...

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We’re Building a School in Paradise

By Kelly Shank – At the heart of our missions program is the belief that we can make big impacts through long-term partnerships with communities. Last year we partnered with the municipality of Palencia to build an elementary school in Santa Elena.  This year we have the opportunity to help build...

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What We Did This Summer: In Our Communities

By Kelly Shank – The children of Dorie’s Promise are our highest priority. Through adoption, safe reunification, and community empowerment we’d love to see the number of vulnerable children in Guatemala decrease. Helping communities, especially struggling families is the mission of our community...

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Maintaining Your Post Trip Impact

By Kelly Shank – Thousands of people have visited Dorie’s Promise as part of our missions teams and many thousands more have been impacted by their stories after they returned home. Visiting our home and experiencing Guatemala firsthand is certainly one of the most impactful ways to learn about...

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Orphan Care through Missions

By Kelly Shank – God has called us to passionately serve the world’s forgotten children through life-changing ministries. Heather Radu came to Guatemala seventeen years ago to serve children who were vulnerable and forgotten, helping hundreds of orphans be placed in loving families through...

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Fall Mission Trips

By Naomi Beazely – Even though summer is barely under way, it’s time for mission teams, families and church groups to start thinking about the possibilities of a fall mission trip. From mid-October through early December, groups can take advantage of a discounted price, with the per-person...

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School Completed in Santa Elena

By Heather Radu – At long last, the school that Dorie’s Promise and more than 25 of our volunteer mission teams helped build is nearly complete. Located in Santa Elena, about an hour from Guatemala City, there are presently 100 children enrolled there. When the 2018 school year starts next...

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