Imagine you are a child, and your father is a wealthy businessman. You live in a big house with your family, eat lots of good food, dress in beautiful clothes, and ride to school every day in a limousine. Then at dinner one day your dad announces that he is going to sell all of his businesses to start an orphanage for street children.
The face pictured here is part of the unfinished painting, Page 12 of
The Biggest Family in the World, where the entire family is around the dinner table, being told this very news, by their father, Charles Mulli. He told his family of the decision to start the
Mully Children's Family, about 25 years ago. In this family portrait, each of Charles and Esther's eight children react to the news in different ways.
How do you think that Charles Mulli's children reacted when their dad told them this news? How do you think
you would you react? You can read more about this remarkable family in the two biographical books by Paul H. Boge,
Father to the Fatherless and
Hope for the Hopeless. Paul's website is
www.paulboge.com, where you can read about his past and present projects for the
Mully Children's Family.
The Biggest Family in the World - a new children's book based on the life of Charles Mulli, planned for publication in 2014. This is a blog chronicling the book's creation from the perspective of the artist.
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