Many little girls grow up playing with dolls, and for one young lady, the broken one she received as a gift became the seed for a ministry.

Eighteen-year-old Leah Barcus, a Regent University student from Fredericksburg, Virginia, was gifted Samantha, her first American Girl doll, when she was just 11. The only problem, Samantha, a used doll, had a loose leg.

"I was like, 'Well, how do you fix that? How do you fix your dolls when they're broken or have something wrong with them?'" she wondered.

Fortunately, Leah had a friend who collected dolls and restored them. "So she brought over a couple of her dolls and we worked on them and I was like, this is really neat," Leah added.

That's when she got the idea to start Joy Doll Hospital , where she takes used American Girl dolls, restores t

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