We Love Kids
Helping every child in Jesus’ name…
We Love Kids helps kids …we are about helping Vietnamese kids in both Vietnam and Cambodia living in desperate conditions, both to know Jesus and to find a way out of the terrible cycle of poverty.
We are a small network of missionaries and national Vietnamese Christians who “love kids”and want to help them above all, spiritually. We are dedicated to helping these children in every way, but above all, spiritually- we want to help Vietnamese children both in Vietnam and Cambodia to hear the gospel, and know who Jesus is.
We help kids at risk of being trafficked, kids needing nutritional meals, kids on the streets of Vietnam and Cambodia. It’s also about helping kids who are in Christian families in a nation that isn’t friendly toward Christianity.
We help kids go to school! We love kids has helped over 500 children obtain schooling, at all levels. Some of this was basic literacy training, some at kindergarten level, and a few of our kids are entering high school.
We help kids know who Jesus is and how to follow Him. I (Joni) trained hundreds of lay teacher/evangelists in Vietnam. Many of these teachers went outside of their own small churches to the highways and byways to reach kids. When they did gospel presentations in their villages and neighborhoods and asked children if they would like to know Jesus, the response was nearly always the same: “they all believed!” Of course, just receiving Christ in a meeting is a long way from becoming a disciple. But our teachers immediately set up weekly discipling groups and many of these children, despite not coming from Christian homes are becoming strong disciples. Some return with stories of leading their parents to the Lord!
We help kids at risk. WLK has rescued girls about to be sold into coffee/shop brothels (by their parents!), kids living on the streets of Saigon, and kids living in homes with domestic violence. We have seen teenage boys choose to leave gang fighting to become part of our We Love Kids community in Phnom Penh.
These two girls below, were rescued by one of our missionaries, 3 days after they were sold into a coffee shop/brothel by their parents. The parents, in a state of bankruptcy, sold them for $50. Tuyen, 17, and Thuy, 18, are both totally illiterate. 
After the missionary confronted the coffee shop owners, who were very angry, they were paid the $50, and were taken to a home for girls who are very high risk. This story doesn’t have the happiest ending, since the parents took them back out to the province a couple of months later. However, they are living at home and working in low paying but decent jobs instead of being abused.
We helps kids escape the cycle of poverty.. One of our highest priorities besides helping them come into a relationship with a loving God, is to help them break the poverty cycle both for themselves and for their families. One child who has graduated from high school can help a whole family on subsistence living leave the horrors of slum life and have a decent lifestyle. It’s also a wonderful witness to mom and dad, if they aren’t Christians.