New UPDATE !!

We are pushing forward towards completion and the children who will be the first children who will call Shining Star home have just received their first months support! 
Pastor Butah got all the children together and handed them the money individually, so they would realize that they were being cared for by your support.
Later the support money was given to their caretakers to provide food and clothing and school fees for them for the month.

The home has now been stuccoed and they are now working on the restrooms and showers, something not one of these children have ever had. So the experience is going to make them feel so special.

I am committed to making sure they are loved cared for and have the opportunity to be a child, playful and carefree.

Above are all our children for Shining Star first home section

And most of all to know they are sons and daughters of a really good Dad who loves them and will always be there for them.

Enjoy the pictures and this short report!!
Thank you so much for your continued support as we cannot do it without you. If you would like to personally support a child or children, they can be supported for 35.00 per month and we will keep you updated on your child/children.

Pastors Debbi & Rick

Bro Butah handing out support money

Still Moving Forward

Still Moving Forward!!

Happy Thursday!!!
We are back in Redding after many stops and some unexpected tragedy and are presently trying to get caught up  many things.
We spent 4 weeks in the southern states ministering and visiting family the month of May after our return from Kenya. Many connections were made and we thank God for each one.
After our return from there, we had a very close friend of 33 years suddenly called home to heaven. This was one of our prayer partners and was looking forward to the day she would be traveling with us to Shining Star and ministering with us, so her home going was very hard on us. We have spent the last two weeks in Fresno Ca. with her family doing services and just loving on them. Very sad, our lives will forever be changed.

Now we are back in the active stage of getting the home (Shining Star) finished and ready for a potential fall move in date for the children we are presently supporting.

Monthly support started last month and if you would like to be a part you can adopt a child for only 35.00 per month. Click on link to set up an adoption by setting a reoccurring donation amount of 35.00 to be made monthly. http://www.openheavenmissions.blogspot.com

Our team in Kisii is currently putting in doors, windows and doing the plaster work on the walls of the structure. We are about 12 weeks away from completion, as long as the weather is favorable.

We hope to travel to Kenya this Oct./Nov. to do the grand opening. Much excitement as we go forward!!!!

Shining Star Primary School is open and in attendance of approximately 85 children. We are believing for laptops for the teachers and funding to be able to feed the children lunch each day.

Some of the students bring food but the majority do not and they do not have enough time to go home, so these children have to be without food from 6:30 AM till after 4PM . I shudder to think of the ones who probably don’t even get breakfast.:(  so this is a big need we would like to see filled as soon as possible.


Financial needs for the school are for 4 laptops for the teachers, 1 laptop for the school head, (1200.00), a camera to document children and home progress (200.00) and for the daily feeding of the children at school (200.00 per month)

We are also in the planning stages of putting together a trip where we will be taking those who would like to minister and see the country from a closer view. We have many who are waiting and desiring to be a part in this most personal way and we look forward to exposing you to the ministry first hand.


We still need many of you to continue your support and consider doing it on a monthly basis. Personally we are about to downsize our lives once again so that more of the savings we are living on can also be joined with your support to keep the flow of life going to these precious children. We have 75 more waiting for additional stages to be built on the home so they can  join the children who have been assigned to be the first children living in  the first stage of Shining Star. But each one must have monthly support as we go forward. We can’t meet our budget one month and not the next. Children’s lives are actually at risk.

The 35.00 monthly feeds each child, provides a bed for them, clothes and pays for their schooling. So we ask that you consider doing a monthly support of a child or multiple children. We will be sending you names of the children you are supporting along with a little bit about them and also working on a central mailing station where they you can communicate with them. The home is in the bush country and is so remote that there is no one with an actual mailing address; but we are working on this.

If you can help large or small we appreciate it so very much. We pray God’s blessings on your family and for you to be in good health and prosper.
God bless you as you consider what your part could be in this ministry.
http://www.openheavenmissions.blogspot.com

Much Love from us and the children of Shining Star Children’s home

Pastors Debbi & Rick Milliken