Sept 30 SDA appointment today

We are waiting to leave for  our SDA appointment in just a few minutes  this is where we will find out what child they allow us to adopt,  we know which child we want and hold out faith for this to come true. Today is today and God's will, will be done, he has a plan. It is our job to walk in his plan even if it means taking some turns we do not expect. God open our hearts to what it is you would have  us  do !

The trip begins!!

Sept 27 we are waiting at the airport to leave!!! We will soon be in Ukraine. We pray a hood safe trip and that everyone is calm!!! Pray for peace in our hearts and our soul that we are free of anxiety!!!

One week

One week  left here before we head off to the Ukraine, things are getting hectic trying to get everything ready to travel.  I will be  updating as we are  on our trip, hopefully I will be  able to post some pictures as well. What went  from months  to weeks  is now  days  before we are  with Liza, Please keep praying  for us, especially  about the travel as I hate  to  fly!  Keep tuned  more  great stuff to  come

Bringing Priscilla Home: Understanding The Cost

Bringing Priscilla Home: Understanding The Cost:   There is a wonderful story about a young boy named Sasha at this  post  please take the time  to read and  pray over Sasha. Sasha is about to turn four and has lost his committed family. Please pray that a family will come forward soon for  him !!

Travel and SDA DATES SET

Sorry  I have  not been posting  as of late  , but things  have  been quite  busy this  summer. WE finally are ready to travel to get our little girl Liza!  We will leave home on the 27th of September, Our SDA appt is  set for the 30th in Kiev !.  So please pray that all travel goes well and that things  go smoothly  in Kiev.

GET OUT OF THE PEW AND INTO THE BATTER'S BOX

"The church is not pro life  it is anti abortion". This statement made by Derek Loux seems to ring true  more and  more.  The majority of Christians are against abortion, but are  doing  little to offer in the way of an alternative.  Lets face the facts we live in a day and age where not all children are wanted  by their parents, and not all pregnancies are welcome.  As a church we must provide not  just a willing body of protest against abortion, we must also provide the CURE for abortion.  That cure is adoption !!  When we protest outside abortion clinics how very often are we confronted  with the question "If I don't keep and care for my baby who will? "  How many  of you  are ready to raise your  hand and step forward?

As A body we must prepare and become ready to welcome these children into our homes our hearts. How many couples and singles in your  church are home study ready to adopt?.  We must begin to advocate and educate families within the church on the power of adoption. When a woman entering an abortion clinic  stops and asks a protester "who will care for  her child" Imagine if that  protester was willing and  able to step forward and say "I will"

We need people to carry and hold antiabortion signs at rallies and protests, but we also need the church standing next to them carrying signs that say "I can and will raise your child"

Please start identifying families and singles in your church that are willing to open their hearts and homes to the unwanted children of this  world and begin walking with them on a path to complete a home study for adoption or foster care.

Abortion is an epidemic,  Adoption is the cure  but it can't be  just a few  it needs to be the  church  James 1:27

 

You might not be a Christian if:

 A wonderful quote by Kay Warren, wife of Rick Warren

 

 

Kay Warren Questions Christianity of Persons who Neglect Orphans | Christianpost.com

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"If we are doing little to nothing, how dare we, how dare we claim to be followers of Jesus Christ," she said Friday. "Followers of Jesus Christ care about widows and orphans and they understand that it is a litmus test.

Urgent Prayer Needed

Please pray for Christyn Joy (AKA Chrissie) and the Patterson Family.

• Chrissie was adopted from Serbia

• Chrissie is a four year old little girl with a very serious heart condition.

•  Chrissie recently had surgery to correct this heart condition and her heart has since stopped twice both times the medical team was able to revive her, however the second stoppage was  for 45 mins. She is currently breathing with the aid of a machine also the machine is  fulfilling her heart functions to let her heart muscle rest. 

•  Chrissie is a miracle in more ways then one! it was always God's plan that the Patterson family  would  one  day rescue her from the orphanage she was living in. She had never been expected to survive at that time  but God's plan was for her to be with the Patterson family. She is now receiving medical care she never would have been afforded in Serbia, What God's ultimate plan for Chrissie is we do not know, that is only  for God to know, but  lets make one thing clear; Chrissie right now  is touching and changing lives all over this country and all over the world.      

With Counsel, Comfort and Relief

This mornig and later today I was reading and refelecting on James 1:27

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world"

Wesley breaks it  down as follows:

The only true religion in the sight of God, is this, to visit - With counsel, comfort, and relief. The fatherless and widows - Those who need it most. In their affliction - In their most helpless and hopeless state. And to keep himself unspotted from the world - From the maxims, tempers, and customs of it. But this cannot be done, till we have given our hearts to God, and love our neighbour as ourselves.


If this is the religion that God accepts  I want mine  to look like  it.  Please read this  verse  reflect on it  and ask yourself  who does God want  me  to help?

Adoption By the Father

The spirit of adoption begins  with the Father's unfailing love for us and by adoption  into The family of God. 

All of us we believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior have  been adopted into the family of God.  What better example do we need to follow  than that of God himself,  His unconditional love towards you  has made you a permanent member of His family.

If we as Christians and by the definition of Christian  strive  to become more Christ like as we mature, then the spirit and concept of adoption can not be ignored.

Who will care for them ?

It is my belief that God has provided a family for each and every child. Who will care for them? Who will step forward and say we are ready?

Orphanages across the world are stretched to breaking points as more and more children find themselves not wanted by their families and the societies where they live, It is time for people of all faiths to begin to open their hearts, lives and homes to these most innocent of victims.