Hey, friends. We have about three more weeks left to raise enough money to send EVERY child at the Offins Children's Center to school. What a blessing that would be! An education will literally change their lives and give them such HOPE for their future. A couple of months ago, I shared their desperate need for mattresses. So many of you helped by sowing any amount you could to help. It all … [Read more...]
Mission: RELIEF!
A couple of weeks ago on Thanksgiving night, I took our older kids out for some Mom time. We headed for a frozen yogurt place that we like. We got there only to discover that it was closed (it's only taken me ten years but I now know that everything shuts down on Thanksgiving!). Since we were right next door to Target, the kids decided that instead of heading home, why not just go and walk around. … [Read more...]
right where she belongs
For the past few years I have had the absolute honor of watching a God story unfold. Several years ago the Block family took a giant leap of faith and headed to Guatemala to serve the people there as full-time missionaries. As many of you know, last year I had the privilege of traveling down there to hug my friends in person and to see the works of the Father through their faithful, willing … [Read more...]
doing SOMETHING!
One of the things that people ask us all the time is, "We don't feel called to foster or adopt but what CAN we do to help?" I love that question. Not everyone is called to adopt a child. Not everyone is called to foster either. Not everyone is called to leave their home and go to a faraway land to be a missionary. When the book of James says to "care for the widow and the orphan" that must … [Read more...]
not one!
"There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,Nothing to attract us to him. He was despised and rejected—A man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care." ~~ Isaiah 53:2-3Oh, how Jesus understood the painful rejection these precious children feel every single day!Not one! Not one single … [Read more...]
to love the wounded child
Our car pulled up in front of the large metal gates. Those overpowering gates kept under lock and key and the watchful eye of a guard.I sat in the backseat. Not knowing what in the world to expect. Or what lay beyond those gates.My heart raced as the words “institution” and “mental asylum” flashed through my mind. I had heard and seen so much over the years about the reality of life behind those … [Read more...]
for the sake of saving one
Some posts are hard to write. This is one of them!Because sometimes the perfect, most eloquent of words seem almost impossible to find in a world where injustice is plentiful and children suffer at the hands of those who are meant to care for them.Just a short while ago, as I flew to Bulgaria to visit the precious new blessings from the Lord whom we are adopting, I asked the Lord for just … [Read more...]
hosted orphans desperately needing families
The precious children listed below are all currently in the U.S. on a hosting program. Sadly, none of them have found committed families (yet!).Some have special needs. Others are aging out and the time remaining to find a family is so short. And then there are those who have been hosted for several years and have still not been chosen!All of them with one thing in common....A … [Read more...]
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