Marydel Glass, Missionary/Founder

Marydel Glass was born of Chinese parents in the Philippines. She was raised there and earned a B.S. degree in Commerce. Later she moved to the U.S. and lived there for twenty two years. She is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

In 1990 Marydel started a home health care service in California, which she operated through 1998. It was in 1997 that Marydel accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior. This led her to the mission field, first to a short-term assignment in Nicaragua, followed by a short-term assignment to the Philippines. There Marydel felt the call to return to her native country full time.

Marydel now heads The Restored Heritage Foundation, Inc. The Board of Trustees and the Department leaders are committed to proclaiming salvation in Jesus Christ, as they serve to bring restoration to the brokenhearted, the needy and the weak. This ministry provides programs to underprivileged people, to maturing and new believers, to unbelievers, to the homeless and street people, to children, and to the young and the weary:

DISCIPLESHIP - Teaching; witnessing; handing out tracts; home unit Bible studies; Bible study at the Restored Heritage (RH) Center; prayer meeting; Sunday worship service; youth and children ministry; organize praise & worship team and have them trained; VBS.

PRESCHOOL - Starting with Kinder I & II, young minds are trained in spiritual growth and academic subjects. Relationship with their parents are built up. The staff reaches out to their hearts and makes known Christ's gift of salvation.

FEEDING THE HOMELESS AND THE POOR - As the Lord provides, food is brought to nourish the bodies of hungry children and adults as they are nurtured spiritually with God's Word. At times, hot food is brought to the sidewalk where the homeless are lying side by side at night and seek for places to ask alms at day. Other times, soup is brought into the “squatter’s camps” to feed hungry children.

CHILDREN'S SHELTER - Ministering as a temporary home for abused, neglected and abandoned children.

WOMEN'S SHELTER - Ministering as a temporary home for unwed mothers, and a refuge for the abused and battered women.

MEDICAL/DENTAL CLINIC - When resources are available, free consultation, co-pay medication and other services to the sick, with the emphasis, however, that God is the Great Physician and Healer through Christ.

The overall goal is to guide the recipients of this ministry on the path to God-given esteem, admonishing and teaching them with all wisdom until they are complete in Jesus Christ.

During 2002, the ministry was blessed with the following: 15 baptisms, the first 11 graduates of the pre-school, a praise team formed from the congregation, juniors trained to facilitate a "4-6 year old" children’s ministry, and an increase of staff and volunteers to 20.

In 2003, new goals are to combine the shelter and center into one spacious and affordable complex, and to provide scholarship funding for several high school and college students.