Giveaway for Adoption!

THIS is one of the necklaces you could win by entering Kanani's giveaway!

 

3 easy ways to enter..

-Donate $10 (or more!) to Kanani's grant fund here (1 entry)

-Share this post on facebook (1 entry)

-Blog about this giveaway (1 entry)

Check it out!! 

http://askingwithfaith.blogspot.ca/2012/07/win-necklace-save-kanani.html

An Eric Ludy Sermon

‎"Christianity, by nature is NOT convenient. Christianity invades your selfish existence and turns it on its head!" - Eric Ludy
(Eric Ludy's "Deprived Indifference" video a part of this sermon! That should tell you how good it is!)


Eric Ludy - The Band of Rescuers from Ellerslie Mission Society on Vimeo.

November Is Over!?

November was National Adoption Awareness Month. If you read  this post you know that I (along with so many other people) participated in the "Pray Down the Number @ 1:47 pm" Event. And it was even more amazing that I thought it would be!! Each day I chose an orphan or an adoptive family (or anything to do with orphans around the world) and lifted them up to the Father. It wasn't hard at all to think of someone or something each day. Each day it seemed that God would put a child a family or a subject in my head and I went with that. It was an honor to pray for them during the whole month of November. The fact that I wasn't alone in praying each day was also a great encouragement. There are 176 people in the facebook group and even if all of them weren't actually praying at the same time it was still amazing to know that each one of them was lifting up orphans all over the world at some point each day. This was an awesome event and I can't wait to participate next year! God really moved, prayers were answered, and God showed up in these lives. 


Just for fun, here is the list I kept:  
(You may or may not recognize some of these names) :)

1st: Liberty and William
2nd: JJ and family
3rd: Will Perry and Ankerich family
4th: Blossom (SFCV)
5th: Luke (SFCV)
6th: Older orphans who struggle with depression
7th: Sharon (SFCV)
8th: Grady (SFCV)
9th: Ruby and Saunders family
10th: Kennedy (SFCV)
11th: Josiah's family (SFCV)
12th: Smith Family (and Derrick)
13th: Stella (Uganda)
14th: Jordyn and Rist Family
15th: Henry (Uganda)
16th: Kira LaTorre
17th: Brookie Leahy
18th: Kayley's sisters
19th: Josh and family (SFCV)
20th: Stoiber family
21st: Joseph (SFCV)
22nd: Phiona's work with orphans
23rd: Orphans in Uganda
24th: Orphans in China
25th: Orphans in Russia
26h: Orphans in India
27th: Orphans in USA
28th: Kiraboo Seeds
29th: Esther and Stonebrook family
30th: Older orphans left behind

*(SFCV)= Children from Shephard's Field Children's Village

Pure Love Giveaway

This Giveaway is absolutely amazing! There are 20 awesome prizes, nothing worth less than $10!! And the best part is every bit of the money raised goes to making 2 less orphans!! How great is that?? 

Fill Their Stockings

A few details on how our “Fill Their Stockings” event will run…

- Suggested donation is $5. More entries will be assigned based on size of donation. But if you don’t have $5 to donate, that’s okay too… An Orphan’s Wish will be blessed by any amount you would like to give. To enter without donating, leave your name, email and mailing address in a comment on this post.

- To donate, simply use the button below and you’ll be directed to AOW’s PayPal page. All donations go directly to An Orphan’s Wish.

- You must have a shipping address in the US to win.

- The Brave Love Necklace giveaway will end at 11:59 PM EST on Tuesday, November 29th. The winner will be chosen at random from all entries and announced shortly thereafter.

So be sure to check back soon – not only see if you’ve won, but to see what delicious donation is going to be featured next. New items will be posted here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday through December 23rd.

Go to Stephanie's blog to see the first prize: 

Giveaway!!

These are awesome pendents! You can win one here:

http://k6comehome.blogspot.com/2011/11/beautiful-pendantsfor-purpose.html

Who doesn't love a giveaway?

And one for an adoption is even better! 


Check out this blog and participate in this FREE giveaway. 

Here's the scoop:

"We need to broaden our blog readership in a big way.   So we want to reward you for helping us.  This package - 1 of our custom adoption t-shirts, 1 copy of Matt's book "When You Come Home" and one copy of "Lovesongs and Lullabyes" can be yours!  Here's how.

1 chance for simply becoming a follower on our blog
1 chance for doing a facebook post referencing our blog
2 chances for putting our blog button on your blog
2 chances for sharing on your blog

Please email us at mmeadors23@yahoo.com or send us a facebook message to let us know you've done these things so we can give you credit.
We will be randomly selecting a name on November 14.  Let's get this party started!"


*from M. Meadors blog

Win an ipad 2!

Consider donating to this awesome giveaway for a family who is adopting a 5 year old girl from Eastern Europe (she has CP and is running out of time at the baby home).

Donate and share this blog with others and you will be entered into the giveaway for and ipad 2 and many other amazing prizes (artwork, a mini camera, etc.).

http://textgeorge.blogspot.com/2011/08/seeing-stars-first-huge-giveaway.html

Cry of the Orphan 2011-Jim, Yolanda and Baby Jayne

Cry of the Orphan 2011 - Jim, Yolanda and Baby Jayne from Hope for Orphans on Vimeo.

Welcome To Shepherd's Field Children's Village

What to learn more about Shepherd's Field Children's Village? 

(The foster home my sponsor children Luke and William live/lived.)

Check out this awesome video!

Welcome to Shepherd's Field Children's Village from Christina Tsuei on Vimeo.

True Religion

‎"James 1:27 tells us to keep ourselves unstained by the world. How do we do that? By going near the needs of orphans and widows, caring for them and meeting their needs. In doing so, we are transformed by the heart of God and we begin to understand how God cares for us." -Dennis Rainey



True Religion from Christian Alliance for Orphans on Vimeo.

147 Million Orphans

Look what I just got in the mail!! 

You know you want one (or both)! 

Order yours today: 

http://www.147millionorphans.com/147-Apparel_c_7.html

Looking Ahead to Orphan Sunday

Sunday Snapshot: Friends

Kyla and William grew up together in China. They are both from Shepherd's Field Children's Village and they have been very close through the years. Soon after I started sponsoring William I realized he and Kyla were always together. :)

Kyla and Will 

Easter 2008

Will, Kyla, and Luke

Easter 2009

Will, Luke, Seth, Kyla, and Adrian

Kyla trying to give Will a hug. :)

Will, Adrian, and Kyla

July 2010, the day before she went home.

Kyla went home to Canada last year, and William went home to Wisconsin about 5 months ago. Well, last month Kyla and her family went to Wisconsin and got to visit with William and his family! 

Will and Kyla 

June 2011

Having fun on the trampoline

Putting a puzzle together

Eating popsicles with Kyla's big brother

I was so excited to hear they were finally able to see each other again after being apart for a year! I heard their meeting went well and they had a lot of fun together. It is so amazing that these two precious children from China will grow up not too far from each other and hopefully keep in touch over the years.  

I pray that Kyla and Will grow into incredible young people with a love for the Lord. And I can't wait to see what God has in store for both of them!

Adoption Quote

“My friends, adoption is redemption. It’s costly, exhausting, expensive, and outrageous. Buying back lives costs so much. When God set out to redeem us, it killed Him.” -- Derek Loux

What if He meant YOU?

"And yet all too often we sit and we wait... 

For someone else to take care of the problem... 

For someone else to give... 

For someone else to serve... 

For someone else to do something about it... 

And we excuse ourselves of our individual responsibility. 

When perhaps He was talking to us all along..."
 

Please take a couple minutes to read this post!

Wow! This is good!!

"Most often people's reasons for being unable to adopt relates to the standard of comfort that they think they deserve... Are they really hearing God's voice or is that he American Dream yelling in their ear?"

Sunday Snapshot: Luke

This is my first Sunday Snapshot. 

I figured I'd join the fun! :)

I've never met Luke, but I can tell he's a silly boy!

I love to see him smiling or making silly faces for a picture!

I've heard he's quite a shy little boy.

But, if you get to know him he will come out of his shell.

(Sounds a lot like me!)

Luke is 4 years old and he's been through a lot in that amount of time. He is doing well now (medically), which is amazing!

The one thing he still needs, though, is a family. Yes, he does live in a great facility and they may even be his "family" for now, but that's not enough. He needs the love of a father and mother and siblings.

God has amazing plans for Luke, I do not doubt that at all. But, my prayer is that a family will feel God's calling toward this precious little boy, and that they would make him their son.

Will you join me in praying for Luke? 

Psalms 68:5-6

The fact that 8 (no, 9 just found out!) of these babies are no longer orphans totally amazes me! A year ago we were loving on them in Uganda, now they know the love of a family! 

"A Father to the fatherless... God places the solitary in families and gives the desolate a home."

 Psalms 68:5-6

3 years ago today...

Even though I never had the privilege to meet Maria Sue Chapman, she changed my life. After Maria went to be with Jesus, He used her family to speak to my heart and change it forever. Over the past 3 years God has done many things in my life that I never could have never come up with myself!

Uganda

Sponsorship:

William

Luke

And Stella

And many other countless things! Thank you Chapman family for sharing your heart with the world. May God comfort you today and in the years to come. 

Check out this blog post from Show Hope:

http://blog.showhope.org/2011/05/21/our-thoughts-are-heavenward/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+showhopeblog+%28Show+Hope%29&utm_content=FaceBook