The orphanage is the legacy of a scoundrel turned saviour. Ed Hughes survived a kidnapping and a shooting that took his arm but he dies in a fall.

Ed Hughes stayed with the orphans he cared for in Haiti even after bandits shot him and he lost his right arm. He remained even after armed men took him hostage for a week, until his son paid a US$2,000 ransom.

In the end, the Canadian missionary, who was in his mid-seventies, died caring for the orphans. On March 21, he climbed a ladder one-handed to fix a water pipe on his roof. He fell and cracked his head on the concrete below.

Family members and Christian volunteers in Ontario who supported Mr. Hughes’s orphanage, Tytoo Gardens, flew to Haiti this week to lay him to rest. They also hope to come up with a plan to keep the orphanage running.

“We’ve got 100 kids down there without anything on their plates,” said Ted Hughes, Mr. Hughes’s son, before flying to Port-au-Prince.

“He’d changed his life, he’d taken care of those kids, and now they’re without.”

The orphanage is the legacy of a scoundrel turned saviour. In the 1980s, Mr. Hughes ran a sex club under a huge tent near Hamilton, Ont., that was raided by a busload of police. Police charged nearly 100 swingers.......... (see more)


(indeed God moves in mysterious ways 

and all His ways are past finding out
I've stopped even trying.....

Rest in Peace Ed!)