The Orphan Crisis

Today my second daughter was baptized. My first, who is 18 now, was baptized with Jeremy and I years ago.

Cosette is 9 years old and has fully given herself to the Lord. Every word that she wrote down to tell the congregation came from her heart. And although she was very shy about it, she also read Matthew 13, one of my favorite passages, where Jesus became baptized by John the Baptist.

Our decision to follow Christ is a surrender to oneself Pastor says. This is something that Cosette will have to learn. And it will take a while before the selfishness that comes along with being a little girl gets crowded out. Before long she will be planning parties around someone else. She will be praying for others and forgetting to pray for yourself. She will love someone so much that she would not hesitate to put herself in front of harm before that person. I just read the other day of a father who threw himself on top of his son who had caught on fire. He put out the flames with his body, his own skin, probably not even feeling the burn, just feeling his baby not burning any longer. The boy did survive with 3rd degree burns. But now he can live, because his father did not even hesitate. Even when his body caught on fire and he also is covered in third degree burns. But I pray he wears those as badges of honor.

We are starting the next process of our adoption. We continue to really pray for those mothers and fathers who have no choice but to give their children away. We continue to ask for your prayers, especially regarding the precious children that we see on the All Gods Children website. We can't choose. We can not say no to a child that needs us. No one who has gone through this process could ever look at the beautiful children, all of them needing a home, and just turn away without mourning. We pray more Christians come forward, that they follow Gods Holy Word and come forward and take a child from these orphanages. We cant take them all. If 1 Christian out of 4 came forward and adopted a child it would end the orphan crisis in the entire world. Just one out of four.

Please help us and prayerfully consider bringing a child into your home.

If you are not able to adopt prayerfully consider giving money to another couple who could. It does not have to be us, there are so many that have to scrimp and save, sometimes for years, to bring a child home. Please help them like we will be doing when our baby is finally home. We will not stop helping others adopt. Please join our fight to end the orphan crisis.