It’s the second Catch Up Day at Forty to Forever… we are short US$2,500 for the children over the last 2 weeks. Please go here to see how you can help us catch up and win an amazing not-available-outside prize… Thank you… syc
Day 10: Joanie Needs A Family… Forty to Forever…
Today at Forty to Forever, beautiful Joanie needs a family… she an adorable little girl with HIV and she is a wonderfully helpful and responsive girl who loves hamsters. Her special need is so very manageable! Please help her find a forever family; share her story and contribute to her adoption grant.
Today’s Lent Devotion begins with a shocking statement, “You have failed.” Yep, but read on and find out that God sees not our failures… He sees what Christ has done for us on the Cross. Have a read, digest and be blessed… syc
Our Goal is to raise $500 for Joanie and Lina… $339 to go!
Joanie is HIV+. She is also a charming little girl with beautiful wavy brown hair. She is growing into an obedient and responsive girl. She is happy to help the nannies arrange the toys, water the plants and care for the fish. Her favorite animal is hamsters. She is a joyful and emotional girl who genuinely enjoys any attention, but when left alone she can play with toys by herself for long periods of time. The biological mother was deprived of her parental rights. Additional photos are available for inquiring families.
Joanie is being advocated for by Elaina Lawrence. She shares her story below…
“I never really knew or cared about the orphan crisis, until a student of mine showed me a picture of her “new” little brother. A little boy in Eastern Europe with a big smile…
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Day 9: Frank Needs A Family… Forty to Forever…
Day 9 at Forty to Forever, today is for Frank! Frank is 12 but is the size of a 7-year-old, Frank is sweet, loving but is mentally delayed, Frank has no future without a loving family and will be stuck in an adult mental institution, doing nothing, every day, all day for the rest of his days. Help him reach a family, share his story, contribute towards his adoption grant.
Today’s Lent Devotion tells us how important it is to NOT go out onto the battlefield without our armour. After all, we would not step out of our house naked, would we? Have a read and think about it… syc
Our Goal is to raise $500 for Frank and Lina… $354 to go!
Frank is being advocated for by Belle Gilmore. This is what she has to say…
“I know that 147 million orphans can seem like an impossible number. So I started with one. The first orphan I ever “discovered” and prayed for was a little boy with a rare disease called Arnold- Chiari Syndrome, in Ukraine. His pseudonym (given by Reece’s Rainbow in order to protect identities) was Sullivan. He was only four years old when I first “found” him in early 2010. I prayed for him, sold cookies at my church group with my best friend for him, and started a blog (You can read Belle’s blog here).
I prayed for almost a year that he would find his family. The day after his sixth birthday, the director of Reece’s Rainbow told me that someone was…
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