Category: Prayers For

Have you thought about the future? i’m sure you have. And if you have children, regardless of their age, you would have thought about their futures too. What are your hopes and wishes for your children?

Orphans are children who have no one to dream of their futures on their behalf. They can’t even dream of a future of any kind, at least not until their forever family finds them.

Below is a short document about children in Ukrainian orphanages.  It also shows adults who were orphans and still are left in institutions because of their disabilities, however minor; they have been deemed unworthy of society’s attention, beyond shuffling them from institution to institution. Please have a look at the documentary before meeting the sweetheart today’s post.

Deti (short documentary movie made in Ukrainian orphanage) :: Orphans and sick children of Zaporozhye, Ukraine.

Now meet Brandi! Isn’t she simply a doll?

But remember the scenes you see in that documentary of the adults in the institution? That is what the future holds for Brandi if a family doesn’t come and claim her as their own.

The psychologist in the documentary repeated that the greatest wish of all the children is to have a family. And that is Brandi‘s wish too. She may not be in the same place as featured in the documentary but she is in a similar situation. Although she may have carers who try their best, but nothing beats having your own family to lean on, to care for you, to love on you everyday for the rest of your life.

Brandi has CP and microcephaly, but is physically active. So it seems her special needs may be minor. Her file does state that she has delays in brain development and psychological development but i’m sure a loving family would be able to help her overcome these delays.

Could you be that family who can love her and help her? If you think so, please contact Reece’s Rainbow for details.

Not everyone is called to adopt. But everyone is called to help… can you help? Can you pray for her? Pray for her daily needs and for her forever family to be found.

You can also contribute towards her adoption grant. Click on her name or picture to go to her profile page to donate.

Brandi has a wonderful advocate over at Life’s Beautiful Butteries (Life Is Beautiful). Do go over and support her fundraisers.

UPDATE: Watch this YouTube video and Brandi’s adoption grant could grow by US$10,000. Simple watch and share and once it gets to 12,000 hits, Lydia will be receiving US$50,000 (we are supposing acculmulated affiliate type fees from YouTube) and Brandi is one of the 5 orphans she has picked to help 🙂

Thank you very much.

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That’s right… a school kid wrote something which has touched my heart… she may still be in school but her heart is way way bigger already. Her name is Ann Louise Pass.

She wrote about international adoption and domestic adoption (specifically American domestic adoption) and she is coming from the point of view of a bio-child whose parents have adopted internationally.

The one line which grabbed me is the sentence in bold:

Since her adoption, my sister has traded her Chinese culture for American, but she has not suffered any deprivation. On the contrary, she is blessed. What matters most to her is not her birthplace, but that she has been cared for by a loving family and given the opportunities to have a better life than she could have had before.

And that is what i wish for for Kurt today; that he can have a loving family and have the opportunities he will never have if he stays in his home country, simply because of his slight disability.

Kurt is described as a delightful child with very mild CP and he can walk on his own. We don’t know more at the moment but i see such a depth of love in those big brown eyes of his. His country allows for large families and older parents to adopt. He has a wonderful advocate over at Sleeping Under God’s Wings. Read what she says about him there.

Is Kurt the son you are missing from your family? If so, please do contact Reece’s Rainbow for more information.

Would you help Kurt find his forever family by sharing his story and praying for him?

He has a very small grant at the moment and a larger adoption grant would help his forever family along on their journey to him. So do consider helping to grow his grant. Click on his name or picture to go to his profile page and donate.

Thank you.

syc

PS: you can read the whole of Ann Louise’s article here.

If you have read my posts over the last few Tuesdays and Wednesdays (when i am late in publishing my Teamwork Tuesday posts), you would know that i have a CHD (Congenital Heart Defect)… i have a VSD (Ventricular Spital Defect). i always tell people i have a leaky heart, my heart isn’t whole; it has a hole (very poor pun is fully intended).

Colby‘s heart isn’t whole either. He has Patent Ductus Arteriosu, a heart defect in which the fetal blood vessel connecting the aorta and the pulmonary artery does not close during birth. It can lead to all sorts of complications later in life, including CHF (Congestive Heart Failure) and pulmonary hypertension. Colby is fortunate that his condition hasn’t impacted his life in a big way yet.

When it does, i pray and hope that he will have a loving family to support him. Colby is an orphan and he also has Down Syndrome. He needs a mummy and a daddy to love him, just as he is. He needs a brother and sister to hold his hand and show him about the fun things in life.

Colby is an active boy who smiles often and loves to dance. He also enjoys games and cartoons. But he has nothing in his adoption grant; zero in his grant. Would you help change that? Would you put in a little something so that a lack of funds would not be a reason he does not have  a family? Click on his name or picture to go to his profile page to contribute.

Maybe YOU are his Forever Family?  Find out more by contacting Reece’s Rainbow.

You can also pray for him; pray for his condition to hold stable, pray for his daily needs and most of all, pray that his forever family come for him real soon.

Thank you.

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