How GLA Got Started

God's Littlest Angels was founded by John and Dixie Bickel on Christmas Day, 1994, when a 1 pound 15 ounce baby was born at the local mission hospital.

Because of her size, she was not given much of a chance for survival. With the parents' permission, Dixie was allowed to take the baby home. John put his skills to work making an incubator out of a cardboard box and heating pad.

At the time, Dixie didn't have access to IV supplies and kept the baby alive by feeding her with an eye dropper every 2 hours. Within 4 days she was drinking from a doll bottle.
Angel Noel survived to go home with her parents in April of 1995.

Now a healthy teenager she lives with her parents and is attending school. God continued to send babies in need of medical support and in November of 1995, John and Dixie followed God's call to leave the mission they were working with to move into the community and work with Haitian families and their infants.