Kolina needs a Christmas Miracle - will you be her miracle?

Kolina is from our Lina's orphanage!  She needs a Christmas miracle!  Please somebody hear the cry of this child and say YES!  Look into her eyes and say YES!

She turns 9 on December 16th...She will spend yet another birthday alone!  Spread the word that KOLINA needs her family now!

OH these photos break my heart...do they NOT break yours?! 

I am searching for profound words to write but I have none!  Words escape me...I dream every night about the day I will hold our daughter Lina in my arms (and that day is so very close) and tell her she is loved, wanted, needed and that she is a gift from the LORD!  She is fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God the Father.  She is no longer alone...she is a Carpenter.  She is Angelina "LINA" Mariana Carpenter.  She is a beautiful little girl who will be loved and cherished.  She will laugh and play with her sisters and one day she will go to school and learn and sing and play!  She will have the most blessed life!  She is no longer an orphan!  She is our daughter...

KOLINA longs for the same words to be spoken to her by her Mommy and Daddy...she is in desperate need to be loved!  Where is her Christmas miracle?

Sasha Carpenter - Anyone afraid of adopting a child with a CP diagnosis...watch this!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g36aZPqF-3Q

Here is Lina's big sister Sasha!  Anyone afraid of adopting a child with Cerebral Palsy?  Watch Sasha sing!  She has a gift from the LORD! She has cerebral palsy!  She is adopted from Russia and had she not been adopted she would now be in a mental institution and probably would never have walked!  YES, cerebral palsy is a broad term that covers many differing degrees of the diagnosis - our other 2 daughters have more severe and different types of cerebral palsy (brain injury basically) but we were told Sasha would never walk! 

Watch our miracle child!  Watch the child that the LORD used to open our eyes to the plight of children that are orphaned with special needs!  We are the most blessed parents in the whole world.  I am sobbing as I write this post because I know the LORD has a BIG PLAN for this very special young lady...meet Sasha Carpenter - actually her real legal name is "Natalya Aleksandra "Sasha" Carpenter!

Please HELP find this precious child her family - BE A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS!!!

http://reecesrainbow.org/29199/kolina-11-17

This little one is the only one that I know of that is listed for immediate adoption from our Lina's orphanage!  She has a birthdate of 2002...see how tiny she is...HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

Check out www.theblessingofverity.com to see KATIE who just came home from our Lina's orphanage!  Katie is 9 and 1/2 and this little one is also 9 years old!!!

God is doing miracles for the children from Katie former orphanage and Lina's orphanage!  Will you be one of those miralces!!!

PLEASE be a voice for the voiceless...my heart aches to see her hopeless eyes to know that she has never known love!  Be a voice for KOLINA!  I love her name...it has LINA in it!!

Be her Christmas Miracle...

Proverbs 31:8-9

LIBERATE LINA snowman...minus the snow!

Even the snowman is all about LIBERATE LINA!

Part of the Carpenter Christmas decorations!

We have the snowman but no snow...and that can wait for awhile as far as I am concerned.  I am not ready to shovel any driveway YET!

Psalm 68:6

OLGA's Christmas Miracle

Olga's Christmas Miracle...

Her family has been found and is working to get her adoption process started!  Praise the LORD Jesus who is able to do above and beyond what we can think or imagine!  Pray for her family as they wade through the adoption paperwork and process as quickly as possible.  The family is a friend of a friend...amazing how the LORD works and weaves HIS PLAN!  I am in awe and we praise the LORD today!!!!

Keep praying...Olga is just one out of countless other children that need a family quickly...if your heart was stirred keep allowing the LORD to use you to be a voice for the voiceless!

Proverbs 31:8-9

Thank you Mel for being burdened for this one little one - it moved me to be burdened and it moved my friend to be burdened and she just happened to be the connection to the family that the LORD was calling for OLGA - Wow!!!

LIBERATE LINA AUCTION NEWS - A 15 year old girl just donated....http://treasuresinhiddenplaces.blogspot.com/

LIBERATE LINA online auction news....

I am so touched, blessed and moved by the gift of a 15 year old girl for LINA!  I don't know who she is but I pray for her that the LORD would bless her beautiful heart!  The purse that you see was donated to the auction today for LINA! 

I am crying because this young lady sees the need and is willing to get involved and help a little girl in another country that desperately needs her help!  Amazing and sweet young15 year old...if you are reading this blog...your gift is so valuable and so are you!  May you be blessed for being a blessing!

I have no words to say Thank you in a big enough way!!!

So go check out the auction at

http://treasuresinhiddenplaces.blogspot.com/

There are over 100 amazing gifts that are blessing little LINA!  Thank you everyone!!!
Angelina (the full name for our nickname of Lina) means "messenger"  She is already a messenger and a voice for the voiceless.  She is no longer voiceless...thank you for being a part of her life!

with blessings to you...Isaiah 26:8

OLGA needs a family NOW! Please go to www.faithsfeat.com to read more!

Please go to www.faithsfeat.com to read more and to read the post that my dear friend Melanie wrote today!  Neither of us can get OLGA off of our minds or out of our hearts but neither of us can proceed to adopt her because we are both in the middle of adoption processes to bring home a daughter from the same country!  The LORD has an amazing story of how He has knit our two families together! 

My post tonight was going to be about the Sophi stripe and Lina stripe scarves that are for sale for both of their adoption processes.  Melanie and Will graciously had a striped scarf pattern made for Lina - to help our daughter come home - wow - in the middle of their fundraising they are raising funds for LINA!  What an act of faith and Christian love...you can check that out too at http://www.xomission.com/

The scarves are amazing!!!  Little Sophi needs our prayers and needs to come home quickly too! Please check out their site to view more about Sophi and her awesome family and our dear friends...Melanie and Will... www.faithsfeat.com

But for now my heart continues to goes out to precious Olga!  Anyone that is considering OLGA...please know that 13 years ago when we boarded a plane to Russia to adopt our precious Sasha - had I known she had cerebral palsy I probably would have not gotten on that plane - the LORD knew that and therefore HE hid the cp from us!  We had her in our arms and nothing else mattered.  Here we were holding this tiny 13 pound almost 2 year old little girl with almost no hair (blonde if you could find any) and with bright blue/grey eyes.

We new immediately upon getting home that something was not right and it was simply not just developmental delay.  Sasha has cerebral palsy and now she is a beautiful 14 year old honors student who simply walks a bit differently!  The LORD has used Sasha to completely remove our fears about cp and other special needs.  So here we are 13 years later with 3 daughters with cerebral palsy all to differing degrees and adopting our little LINA who has issues which will be similar to cp. 

I am forever thankful to the LORD for opening my eyes, removing the fears and blessing our lives with our precious girls!  So when I look at OLGA I see Sasha and it crushes me to think of Sasha in a mental institution!  That is exactly where she was headed for she was even in a baby home for children with mental disabilities ( I would have known that upon entry to her orphanage had I been able to read Russian at the time). She is gifted intellectually but was struggling in the orphanage because of her cp and it was thought that she was mentally incapable!  Anyone every read the book -"Boy in Babyhouse 10"?  You need to!!!

So if anyone has questions about CP please contact us at nusker1@hotmail.com and we will be so happy to share our stories!  Praying for OLGA and for her Mommy and Daddy to find her! 

May the LORD be glorified in this precious child's life...HIS child!

Proverbs 31:8-9