ABOVE: Author Sfro- man with a few of the children at the Chapingo orphanage.
The cover illustration on King’s Business this month shows toy-filled Christmas stockings being distributed to children housed in the orphanage at Chapingo, in San Carlos Canyon, twelve miles south of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. As the boys and girls receive their gifts, they are unaware of the background events which brought the " Centro de Amparo” into being. And they are only dimly aware of the love and interest of many Christians in the U.S.A. whose assistance has given them not only the necessities of life, but more important — the opportunity to find the way of salvation through the shed blood of Christ.
RIGHT: Water was a major problem in San Carlos Canyon until the assistance of U.S.A. Christians made p o s s i b l e a well and this wind mill.
BELOW: To k n o w t h e m is to love them. Closeups of a lew of the children in "Centro de Am- paro."
by Ken Stroman
"' iv e y e a r s a g o , on an April Sunday evening, down a dusty road cut deep with ruts, jogged a car carry ing two men. Along the road here and there children played and an occasional dog jumped out at the wheels of the moving car. It had been a busy day for Dr. B. H. Pear son, President of World Gospel Cru sades and Ken Stroman, Staff Artist of World Vision, Inc. Their destina tion was the adobe house which was the original site of the orphanage. In a few minutes, the car pulled up in front of the house. Several chickens were warming themselves in the few rays of sun which still reached like long fingers up into the canyon. This wasn’t a church, but here were people waiting to hear the Gospel. Looking into the darkened room, the two men could see the brown faces peering up at them as THE K IN G 'S BUSINESS
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