. >> reporter: jennifer chances with bethany christian services the agency that help the farley bringadeleine home. bethany is in the middle of a two-year campaign called these 400s. a push to get people to consider special needs adoptions. as more regulations are put into place and many adoption agencies are closing their doors. >> these are kids that are overseas in orphanage that is really have no resources. if agencies aren't going over there and finding families for these kids then they'll stay in those orphanages for their whole life. >> reporter: adoption is a challengeing thing. throw in foreign country and additional special needs and the thought might intimidate you. but bethany christian service has a partnership with chop's international adoption program here at the wood center to provide extra resources for families. dr. susan friedman is the medical director. she says, special needs international adoption is the new normal. >> if parents want to adopt a healthy child from chain nats usually a six to seven year wait. >> reporter: friedman says chop's program assists famil

. >>> stijts at bethany christian spread the love by donating 300 pounds of peanut butter and jelly for needy families. it's part of a spread the love niche-t initiative. >> how they decided to celebrate vanl tine's day this year. they were about spreading the love to our hungry neighbors in need. the school collected 1,068 jars. >> way to go, kids. managers tell us the nonprofit serves about 78,000 people each on week. one-quarter of those are children. >>> let's think about spring. the phillies they're packing up heading to the sunshine state to get ready for spring training. nbc10 was there today while dozens of philly's employees loaded up this 18-wheeler at citizen's park in south philly. everything from powerade cups to bicycles. philly was there to send the truck off at noon today. everything the phillies need for the next month will arrive in clearwater, florida. that's where the players and coaches will be until their home opener on april 6th. >>> here's a breakdown of just some of the essential supplies they're taking on their journey south. they have quite a bit. 2400 basebal

students from the bethany christian school collecting jars of peanut butter and jelly ahead of val tunesier about 300 pounds of their donations dropped off at philabundance hunger relief center. the peanut butter and jelly will go to those less fortunate all a part of philabundance's spread the love campaign. need for this items is crucial this time of year. >> a big story this week is the chicago little league jackie robinson west being stripped of their little league championship title. it. >> happened because players for the team were pulled from outside the designateed boundaries. well torque night howard says he's had it with the media circus this store has become. >> are you kidding me? i'm done. i've had it. >>> i've had it with all the attention the media gives to all this little league baseball stuff and i mean all of it. i've had it because someone somewhere decideed to penalize 12 to 1484 old kids from chicago for something that was clearly not their doing. i've had it with little league baseball on the media level it now is. because now they just hurt the kids and take away t

students from bethany christian took a field trip to south philadelphia today to drop off a major donationa service project these kids collected 300 pounds of peanut butter and jelly. that's more than a thousand jars. it makes a big dent in philabundance's goal to collect 10,000 jars so children can enjoy protein packed pb and j sandwiches. >> jaime apody live in the "action news" sport center with details. >> flyers in columbus and it's fitting they'll be there to celebrate the milestone of one of their former fan favorites scott hartnell now a member of the blue jackets will be honored before tonight's game for playing in his 1,000th career game earlier this week. he spent seven seasons here in philadelphia before being traded to columbus last june. hits former team happy to be a part of tonight's celebration. >> he's been a real good flier on and off the ice with everything he's done. he played hard on the ice gave it everything he's got good leader and then off the ice a lot of the same with the community and stuff. represented the flyers very well. big deal to play a thousand game in

. >> reporter: she soon found that bethany was part of a devout young christians called the communitythe rest of the world what it looked like to live in community, live christian, be radical. >> reporter: the group had formed in college but after graduating they moved to kansas city to study and pray at a church called the international house of prayer known by the acronym ihop. but it became something much more alarming. >> it became a damages cult. >> he says tyler told them what to wear what to eat and even controlled the romantic groups among the group. >> they did what they were told didn't make decisions on their even. >> some of the thing he was saying were inco-hernlt. when you were there, it was perfectly normal. >> you've been described a as cult leader. >> okay. >> true? >> i don't think so no. >> there were questions including tyler's sexual orientation. >> bethany and my relationship was definitely strained but just because it was strained doesn't mean i was a murderer. >> reporter: this investigation was turned on its head when a community member confessing to the murde