"I  will be back," I said to the children clustered around me, their sticky hands clinging to mine.  The words lacked any true intention until their desperate tears wiped the fake smile off of my face.  I could see the longing and screaming in their eyes.  "Will you....really?"    I was one more adult they were trying to believe in.

After this visit to a state orphanage in 1997, I was determined to keep my word and even more, to be an advocate for abandoned children in Romania.  Over the years God fueled compassion, until passion burns in me!  God has given me such a clear vision of what the future will be, I can close my eyes. . . I see it...I hear it and smell it. As part of that vision, I established Crown Child Placement to be the legal means of accomplishing my promise to God and to those children.  I believe the destiny of those Romanian orphans will change when we focus on long term solutions:  help them integrate in society, replace institutional care and prevent abandonment.

AN ORPHANAGE WITH 120 TEENAGERS 14 TO 22 YEARS OLD
MEET SOME OF THEM