In the early 1950's, Hong Kong was swarming with millions of refugees from China, many were women whose husbands had been killed by the communists. The Hong Kong government was simply overwhelmed by such a massive need within such a short time. The United Nation responded by financing the construction of thousands of massive, H-shaped, 7 story apartment complexes in 40 some resettlement areas scattered throughout the Kowloon Peninsula. Even so, multitudes of new arrivals had to huddle together in flimsy shacks along the hillsides of Kowloon. Among the refugees were some 300 children of CCF orphanages in Canton. Led by the older boys, they endured a 200 mile journey, walking along the tracks of Kowloon-Kwong Tung Railroad at night and hiding themselves in the woods during the day. Upon arrival to Hong Kong, many of them were sick, dehydrated and exhausted. The most urgent need was to provide a safe and healthy place for the children to live. They were temporarily placed in 5 different CCF orphanages. Needless to say, these orphanages were overcrowded.      In 1952, Mills undertook an ambitious project: building a massive "cottage plan" orphanage called Children's Garden. This campus would consist of 90 plus cottages, each housing 12 children, with a cottage mother who would be a widow or a women abandoned by her husband. The idea was to de-institutionalize orphanages and re-create a supportive, home-like environment to promote better emotional support and psychological development of the children. Mills searched around and discovered that there was a piece of land at the base of Saddleback Mountain which was earmarked for an emergency airstrip. He immediately approached the then governor Sir Alexander Grantham to see if it could be used to build Children's Garden. The final answer from London was positive, but it had to be acquired via a public auction. Mills felt that it was an insurmountable obstacle. Land was at a tremendous premium in Hong Kong and that CCF would never be able to outbid land developers.      After much prayer, Mills realized that nothing was impossible with God. He then arranged an architect to finalize an elaborate drawing of the future Children's Garden. Thereafter he invited all the newspaper reporters to a banquet in a fine restaurant, and revealed to the public his plan of building the largest "cottage plan" child care institution in the Far East to help orphans in Hong Kong. For two weeks, the papers were full of articles about Children's Garden.      Much to everyone's surprise, on the day of the auction, the land office was empty. It was as if God had stopped everyone else from coming to the auction. The auctioneer waited two extra hours but no one except Mills showed up for bidding. Mills got the land at the bottom price of ten cents per square foot, or HK$120,000 for 28 acres!      Mills spent the next 5 years building Children's Garden. He personally drove the bulldozer and tractor to clear the land, surveyed the site, supervised the construction team, repaired the machines, and teaching some of the older boys in the process. For this he was also affectionately nicknamed "bulldozer preacher" because of his love and compassion were always followed by real action!. After the construction was completed, dignitaries from all over the world, including Mrs. Indira Gandhi of India, came to visit Children's Garden.      Mills' effort went beyond helping orphans in Hong Kong. Seeing thousands of children in resettlement areas without any schooling, Mills proposed to the government to let organizations such as CCF operate schools on the roof-top of each of the H-block buildings in the resettlement areas. This started the concept of roof-top schools. At its peak, CCF was sponsoring 30 some roof-top schools in Hong Kong.      Duplicating the success of Hong Kong operation, Mills quickly expanded the work of CCF to help children in other countries including India, Thailand, Phillipine, Indonesia, Taiwan, Africa, South America and even Europe. He traveled extensively, around the globe 6 times, supervising and evaluating homes and schools sponsored by CCF. By 1958, CCF was helping over 250,000 children worldwide.