Our team has arrived! 51 children arrived to screening day- ready to meet the plastic surgeons that will perform their life-changing cleft lip and palate surgeries!

Thoughts from Randy and Gale Knight, Outreach Volunteers:

In a quiet corner of the Philippines, where hope often travels long distances, a story unfolded as we planned out our medical mission providing free cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries with Mending Faces. We shared word of this outreach with the McKay family back home, who realized that a very young relative of theirs, living far away within The Philippines, needed this very procedure. What followed felt like a chain of small miracles: messages passed from person to person, plans coordinated across miles, and hearts moved to help. Through persistence, generosity, and perfect timing, the child was able to travel four hours to our mission site, arriving in time to receive this life-changing care.

Moments like these remind us that compassion has no borders and kindness often moves through ordinary people doing extraordinary things. For this child and family, the surgery meant more than medical treatment; it meant confidence, opportunity, and a future reshaped. For our team, it was a powerful affirmation of why we serve. Sometimes the greatest impact begins with a simple connection and when people come together with purpose, lives truly can be transformed.