Mirada de Jesus, translated “the Gaze of Jesus,” is the newest ministry of LAMB. This residence is a forever home for our precious children with special needs who have turned eighteen, aging out of God’s Littlest Lambs (GLL) Children’s Home. Where did that name come from: the Gaze of Jesus? The New Testament is full of stories about Jesus going to the least of these – the lepers, the blind, the marginalized and the rejected – the unseen of society. But Jesus stopped and looked at them with compassion. In Honduran society, people with special needs are often marginalized, unseen. We want them to know that they are loved by Jesus and by us and that we will always have a place for them at LAMB.  

Praying for this forever home became an integral part of our Children’s Home ministry around fourteen years ago with the arrival of baby Yolani, who was born blind. Since then, other children with special needs have joined the LAMB family: Elias and Judith, siblings born with cerebral palsy; Melvin, now almost completely deaf and blind because of a degenerative disease; and Olympia, who has difficulties that prevent her from living on her own and make her vulnerable to the threat of human trafficking. We have always thanked God for each one of these precious lambs and prayed earnestly for His plan for their adult lives.   

Enter Teresa and Guy Tarrant, long-time partners and faithful supporters of the ministry. Upon seeing a Facebook post about the vision God had given LAMB for Mirada de Jesus, they too prayed, seeking the Lord’s will. As is often the case with prayers, we become part of the answer. As it turns out, about the time Yolani arrived at LAMB, Teresa was left an inheritance and had been seeking the Lord’s will for how to invest that gift in the Kingdom. This invitation to be a part of Mirada de Jesus was what they’d been waiting for. Once again, the Lord has expanded the services of LAMB with Mirada de Jesus by revealing a need and imparting a compassion to fill that need in His perfect timing.  

 We are overjoyed at LAMB to offer this forever home, Mirada de Jesus, to our beloved lambs with special needs. Ephesians 2:19-22 says, “you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you  are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God…being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.” Our hope for Mirada de Jesus, this dwelling place for the Lord, is that Judith, Elias, Melvin, Olympia, Yolani, and each of our precious lambs will know that they are seen by Jesus and loved by Him as treasures in the Kingdom of God.