Monday, November 12, 2012

Update on Amelia

Praise the LORD!  Amelia is doing better today! She has been moved to a regular room!
More tests are being done to determine what caused the sudden illness but praises to OUR LORD for her recovery that is in progress!  GOD has HIS HAND UPON THIS TINY precious child!


WE LOVE YOU AMELIA!

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Amelia Holly Brown - from Pleven needs your prayers


Amelia Holly Brown was adopted from Pleven by my friend Jenny!  She came home this past summer weighing approximately 10 pounds at 12 years old!  As you can see in recent photos she is thriving at home with her family.  She recently was weighted at 22 pounds but she has become very sick and is in the ICU at  
UNC Memorial Hospital in North Carolina!  Yesterday she was not making improvements but the last report I heard is that if her lab numbers come down she might be moved to a regular room on Monday.  Please pray for Amelia and her family!  Friends decided to shower Jenny and Amelia with cards and notes of encouragement and prayer!  IF you would like to send a note of prayer please send it to...

UNC Memorial Hospital
Pediatrics Unit
Attn: Amelia Holly Brown
101 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Thank you for caring and praying!  To God be the GLORY for each little LIFE redeemed by HIS HAND!

We love you Amelia!




Channah

Channah

 
This sweet face captured my heart! 
Then to read that she has a diagnosis of cerebral palsy and needs a family - Well that just melted and broke my heart!  Susan has become her Angel Tree Warrior and is working to raise funds for Channah!  So I am passing along Channah's need for a family!  I don't even know what agency has her file but if you are interested in more information about this precious sweet soul please follow your heart!  We would love to adopt Channah but we wait for our sweet AJ in the Philippines!!  We are prayer warriors for you Channah - you have captured our hearts! 
 
If the diagnosis of cerebral palsy give you pause - please feel free to contact me to hear of all of our experiences with all differing types of cp - from mild to severe!
C-S
DOB: Sept 9, 2002
Special need: cerebral palsy
Though she was diagnosed to have mental delays, it’s been noted that it’s like orphanage delays in general. She does will in day-to-day tasks. In the orphanage, she has much less education and very rare contact with the outside world compared to other children of same age.
She has been attending the special education class in the orphanage. Yet, she will go to the local special education school in mid-September.
She enjoys playing with balls, listening to music and dancing. She doesn’t like being ignored. She likes pink and green, and she likes wearing dresses.
She can walk and go upstairs with no problem. Every day she dresses up, takes the bath, eats and sorts out the bedding by herself. She can fully take care of herself.
Additional photos and video available.
$140.00 is available towards the cost of my adoption, including $75.00 from Angel Tree donations

Monday, November 5, 2012

Did you ever

 
Did you ever get a glimpse of the LORD?
Did you ever see HIS wondrous working HAND?
Did you ever doubt your purpose or HIS plan for your life?
Look into the eyes of this child
The miracles abound
 
Ephesians 1: 18 - 22
 I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.
 I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power 20 that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms. 21 Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else—not only in this world but also in the world to come.
 
 
This child fills my heart with hidden wonders everyday!
The beauty of her smile..
The joy of her laughter...
The power of her heart to touch her Mommy's heart in deep and profound ways
that show the wondrous working POWER OF THE RISEN LORD!
She is a treasured gift!
BE A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS
Proverbs 31: 8 - 9
There are millions of children without a voice to cry out!
Millions like precious Avi waiting to be cherished and loved!
Millions waiting for the Power of LOVE to touch their lives!
My heart was left in the Philippines at her orphanage!
MAY THE LORD open doors for AJ!
HE is the God of Wonders!
He is able to do above and beyond what we can think or imagine!

Ephesians 3:20  (KJV)

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
(photos - YES it is cold here in the North East - time for coats, hats and mittens - gotta love the weather or move South!  Actually Lina is not taking a liking to having to wear a hat!  She sure looks adorable though - I will share those photos eventually too! )
 

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Are you READY

GET OUT AND VOTE!

My Single Thought...

Orphan Sunday 2012 -

Did your church acknowledge that today is the Sunday set aside to share the plight of the orphans around the world?

Wake up church!

Can you not see?
Do you not hear?
This is our problem!  The LORD calls for us to care for the orphan and the widow in James 1:27 - He commands that we care for the least of these - He calls us to be a voice for the voiceless - Proverbs 31:8 - 9

CAN YOU HEAR?
DO YOU SEE?

Why did I entitle this post MY SINGLE THOUGHT?
Because as
WE walked onto stage today, November 4, 2012 at Lancaster Evangelical Free Church as a part of their Orphan Sunday!  There were over 50 on stage all wearing "ADOPTED" t-shirts singing "Children of God" - as I stood holding our daughter Ellianna in my arms - watching Brian holding Avi and Lina - and Sasha between us - standing above my friend Renee with her recently adopted daughter from Ethiopia all I could do was get tears in my eyes and search out the crowd within the church and think this single thought - WILL ANYONE HEAR THEIR CRY?! WILL ANYONE HEAR THEIR CRY?  How many of these children that recently have broken my heart would have a family if someone would hear their cry!

THAT WAS THE SINGLE THOUGHT that flooded my mind as I prayed while the song played...LORD OPEN EYES AND HEARTS TO THE PLIGHT OF THE ORPHAN...MAY SOMEONE HEAR!  MAY SOMEONE SEE!  IT DOES MATTER...one child at a time...
it mattered to this one

it mattered to this one

it mattered to this one
it mattered to this one

(Sasha standing with our sisters in  Christ in the Philippines on our trip to bring home Avigyail)


Each child matters - Can you hear? Do you see?
Do they matter to you?

R.
DOB June 2001
Down Syndrome

M.
DOB October 2001
Down syndrome


K.
DOB: September 2003
Down syndrome




Additional photos and information available on these newly listed children!
Check out www.lifelineadoption.org

stephanie.carpenter@lifelinechild.org

tingministries@comcast.net

BE A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS ON THIS ORPHAN SUNDAY 2012 and thank you LEFC in Lititz, PA for an awesome ORPHAN SUNDAY!
check out Team 127 http://www.team127.com/

Proverbs 31: 8 - 9

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

New photos from Eastern Europe

Spencer


age: 4
special need: Willebrand’s disease, anemic syndrome, retarded in his mental and physical development up to the age of 2 years, hyperactivity

 
 
This is Spencer at a younger age
 
 
 
 

Luke

age: 12
special need: developmental delay
 
 
 
 
to view all of the children previously posted
 
What can I say that I have not said before?
These 2 boys need a family!
Please let me know if you might have interest in learning more about any of the children recently posted!
BE A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS
Proverbs 31: 8 - 9