Children with a mission...

...to pray for, help and love orphans!

I'm not sure how it happened but my husband's "I think we should adopt one day" has not only turned reality (we've adopted now 3 orphans, special needs orphans) but it has multiplied into all of our children having hearts for orphans.

My just-turned 4 year-old often says, "I love orphans Mommy". Sometimes she tells her sister that she adopted her baby doll from the orphanage. She wants to go with us to adopt some more orphans (she had to stay home the last 2 times). My 6 year-old would love so much to go play with all those orphans and she would quickly become best friends with them all.

My 8 year-old son would love to go back and adopt a little girl we saw our last 2 trips...she is a quote "regular" orphan whose mother pays for her to be there and rarely visits but she doesn't give permission for her to be adopted...breaks our hearts, she is so precious.

My 13 and 11 year-old girls have blogs going to raise awareness about orphans and raise money for them. If you have time or interest, visit their blogs and share them with people you know. We can learn from them...I know I sure do. There is nothing so powerful like a child's heart that is in tune with the heart of our Heavenly Father, who is the Father to the fatherless. Our children just raised about $230 for a little boy (Ethan) who has just met his forever family for the first time today! See the previous post for a link to their blog. They are excited. They sold bracelets, collected change and memorized scripture too.

Now they want to raise money to help a little girl named Masha...
she has Down Syndrome and is in an orphanage in Eastern Europe. Her family has stepped out in faith to bring her home (they already adopted 2 children with DS a couple years ago). Their dossier paperwork is being submitted very soon and they need $20,000 to complete the adoption. Sounds like alot...but God can use the efforts of our children to help Masha...he can multply each and every small donation to make her miracle happen.

Here are links to their blogs:
www.laciesbracelets.blogspot.com


http://www.thelordsgracetous.blogspot.com