Helping Families Understand the Effects of Trauma
Advocating for the worth and potential of every child.
Center For Healing Childhood Trauma
Our Center for Healing Childhood Trauma is an online resource for anyone looking to understand the impact of childhood trauma. Our hope is that the online courses provide a roadmap toward better relationships, better mental health, and healing from childhood trauma.
Community Support Group
We meet the 3rd Sunday of each month from 3:30-5:30pm with dinner and childcare provided.
Healing Childhood Trauma Conference
Held every fall in Winona Lake, Indiana with 20+ speakers, 30+ breakout sessions, and 10+ workshops.
How We Are Making a Difference
We desire to stop the flow of children into institutions, and allow families the opportunity to raise their children.
We know that if we only supported orphanages and institutions, we would be continuing to support the flow of children into these dark places. Instead, we are working to keep children with their families, because every child deserves the love of a family, not the sterility of an institution.
Trauma Education
We help equip parents, caregivers, and social services with essential information about caring for children and teens from hard places.
Nik's Heart of Hope
The part of Lost Sparrows that meets the tangible needs of vulnerable children and families in Eastern Europe, the Philippines and other parts of the world.
Community Support Group
Join us as we look to encourage, answer questions, and learn from each other about raising children with trauma.
Why Lost Sparrows?
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
In the Bible, the sparrow represented the lowliest of common creatures God created. Yet time and time again, we are reminded that God is so active and caring that not even a sparrow is lost without Him knowing. He watches over them, just like He watches over His children.
What We Do
Teaching
Children from hard places require an extra level of commitment to care for. We educate and train families, caregivers, teachers, and others on how to overcome the effects of trauma in children.
Resourcing
Many of our partners across the globe need help working with families. We support them financially, with translated materials, training videos, and in many other ways. Solving the global orphan crisis requires many hands working together.
Advocating
We are constantly working with governments and local agencies toward the safe closure of orphanages and to change policies to benefit children and families.
Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese art form in which broken pottery is repaired using lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, intentionally highlighting the cracks rather than hiding them. The process transforms damaged objects into even more beautiful and valuable pieces, embracing flaws and the object’s history as a source of beauty and strength.
Kintsugi honors the story inherent in every break, repairing and joining shards with gold to create a unique, renewed vessel.
Kintsugi teaches that cracks and repairs are not something to disguise, but to display with pride, reflecting that our own personal losses, breaks, and repairs are what make us unique and beautiful. It celebrates resilience, transformation, and the beauty found in imperfection, becoming a cherished metaphor for embracing life’s changes and challenges.
“Trauma mended becomes something new. Becoming a language that can speak into the divide, into the gap. The beauty of not only how God mends us, but because we are broken and renewed, and are far more valuable than we were before.”
– Makoto Fujimura
For our end of year fundraising campaign, anyone that donates $100 or more, will receive 2 handmade kintsugi necklaces. This lets you get one for yourself and one to share with someone you love. The message is simple, we are all broken in various ways and doing our best to heal, but our flaws and weaknesses are part of what make us who we are. We find the message to be encouraging, that with our brokenness, “we are far more valuable than we were before.”
