By Zach Dodd, WEGO Director
“…Do not worry about your life… Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?”
-Matthew 6:25-27
I must confess.
I was not totally awesome at trusting God with our home build in Mongolia. I had my moments, sure. But I was much more like a baseball player where 3 for 10 gets you in the Hall of Fame. We began interviewing builders on July 31st, 2018; the kids officially moved in February 2nd, 2025. Those 2,378 days were a rollercoaster ride of dreams, drawings, fundraising campaigns, lost builders, more drawings, land permit problems, promises from God, more fundraising campaigns, missed weather windows, and…a global pandemic. I can’t even tell you the number of times I woke up in the middle of the night riddled with anxiety that this big dream would stay just that, leaving our kids in the cold and labeling me a sham.
But one truth kept coming back, day after day and year after year:
“God cares for these kids more than I do.”
This new house was more than a dream. It was a necessity. Behind the front door of our old house (pictured above) were twenty years of laughter, joy, and beautiful stories of Mongolian children learning they are deeply loved. But it couldn’t keep heat and was in more than decline, it was in decay.
In February of 2025, all my worry, anxiety, and worst-case-scenario fears came to naught. Our paper dream is now a real-life shelter. I watched the kids run around it just last week.
So, who cares that vulnerable children in some far-off country were cold?
Who cares that their one bathroom was unusable?
Who cares if, instead of Gachuurt’s fresh air, mold spores filled their lungs?
In a broken world of overwhelming need, who cares about these kids?
150+ donors and four churches cared. I know that, for sure.
But so much more, Jesus cared.
I didn’t have to worry at all.
Join us in praising God for this big thing then join the kids at New Hope Children’s Home in praying for the things on their hearts, too.
How You Can Pray
Pray with Alungoo (16)
“I want to pray for health for everyone in the world”
Pray with Lyankhua (10)
“Pray for Marc (WEGO founder) as he travels soon to help people in Ukraine“
Pray with Azaa (17)
“Please pray for my family at New Hope and for me to have big dreams for my future”
Pray with Bayarmaa (7)
“Can we pray for God? I want to pray for God!”
Pray with Ulziibuyan (12)
“I want us to pray that no one breaks our new house”
Pray with Gantsetseg (11)
“I want to pray that our house will be like this forever”
Pray with Ganbayar (15)
“Please pray for my studies at school”
Pray with Nomin (9)
“I want to pray for everyone who gave money for our new house. I am thankful for them! I will be sad when Zach and Dan leave, but I will give that emotion to God.”
Pray with Nomuundari (10)
“I want us to pray for Zach’s family”
