Cedarville Magazine, Spring 2018

From 1869 to 1997, the Ohio Veterans’ Children’s Home (OVCH) in Xenia, Ohio, took care of orphans of sailors and soldiers from the Civil War (when it was known as the Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home), then the wars that followed, and, in its final years, children who had been removed from their families and become wards of the state. From 1959 till 1995, ministry teams from Cedarville University, including these students from 1988, were part of OVCH’s caring and nurturing atmosphere, spending time with the kids, playing with them, helping them, and sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with them, pointing them to an eternal, forever Father. Caring for Orphans in Our Own Backyard Cedarville Magazine | 39