… that’s the way the saying goes… and there is definitely truth in that, especially when you have a sibling whom you love and who loves you right back.
Today i would like to introduce you to a pair of siblings; sisters who are in need of a loving family to care for them, to love them, to give them the opportunities that would enable them to get the best out of life.
10-year old Chrystyna needs a family…Karen’s only chance for a family is to be adopted together with her sister.
Karen is already 16 years old, she has no special needs and is a developmentally normal teen whose profile says she is smart and has no negative behavioural issues. Chrystyna is her younger sister who has FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) and developmental delays. She has been fortunate enough to be transferred to a place where they do care about her and teach her.
Karen has to be adopted together with her sister Chrystyna because of her age. They both have so much potential but they need a family to provide them with a truly loving environment, a family who would help them meet life’s challenges. Are you that family? If you are looking to add a sibling pair to your family, please do consider Karen and Chrystyna.
If you are not called to adopt (not everyone is), there are other ways you can help. You can share their story so their forever family might find them sooner.
International adoption is an expensive thing to pursue. You can help by helping Chrystyna‘s adoption grant to grow so that a lack of funds would not stop these sisters from having a family to call their own.
You can also pray for both Karen and Chrystyna; for their daily needs and most of all, for a family to come for them.
A week or so ago, i was wondering if i should carry on with my posts for special needs orphans. i wasn’t really considering stopping, it was just a stray thought which entered my brains, making me wonder…
God set me straight – i opened my email that morning and this was the first thing i read:
Light your candle again, and thank God that his light can reach into the darkest places. Pray for children who are abused or neglected and do not know love.
God is good. All the time. Amen.
1 John 3:21 – 23 says:
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before Godand receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
That day’s Bible reading goes on to talk about how the Christian Faith is Love! To love because God first loved us and gave His Son, Jesus Christ to die for our sins that we might have live and a personal relationship with Him.
So with renewed assurance that God will shine His Light and with God’s love in my heart, i would like you to get to know little Benji.
Sweet Benji is waiting for his forever family.
Benji is 2 years old and has Down Syndrome. He does not have a family who will care for him and provide him the opportunity to thrive. He lives in an orphanage at the moment. However, in his home country, because of his Down Syndrome, he will be transferred to an adult mental institution at the age of 4; in 2 years time!
Benji does not belong in an institution. He belongs with a mummy and a daddy who loves him and can help him live a fulfilling life. He is so full of potential. His file says he is kind, affectionate and curious, just like any other little boy. He can roll over and has started to crawl. He can focus on a moving toy and grab it and hold on for some time. And he is also making sounds.
There are so many things he can do. But it seems that he has been judged by the things he can not do. That’s just not a fair or complete way of seeing a child.
He needs a caring family who would see his good points and help him work on where he might be lacking. Could you be that family? If your heart is saying yes, then do consider making him part of your family. This is a great age to include him into a family. Please contact Reece’s Rainbow for details.
If you are not called to adopt (not everyone is), then there are other ways to help Benji. Please share his story so that his forever family can find him. Please do pray for him; pray for his daily needs and most of all, pray for a family to bring him home.
You can also donate to his adoption grant so that his forever family can reach him faster. Click on his name or picture to go to his profile page to donate.
Thank you for your kind attention and every effort to help Benji is greatly appreciated.
HI, i am Sandra and i fell in love with my little Heath almost exactly seven months ago. How did i fall in love with a boy i never met just by looking at his picture and reading about him? Well, i don’t know; what i do know is that it is all part of God’s plan to give this sweet child a home and a loving family, which he so richly deserves.
11 years old Heath, is a cutie who needs his family asap.
i read that, i clicked on to Reece’s Rainbow, read Heath‘s profile and cried my eyes out. My son was there on that webpage. Why was he on that webpage and not home with me? i shared with my husband and i tried to find out if we could adopt. But all those doors closed. It was not to be. i cried some more and decided i am going to do the next best thing: find my boy a loving family. So i became his prayer warrior and his advocate.
i had followed links on his profile to these to blog posts by Julia at CovenantBuilders:
i felt good that there was one other mama who loves Heath and who is shouting out for him – there were two of us was what i thought to myself at that time.
Boy, was i wrong!
Heath has a whole ton of advocates and prayer warriors. God truly has an amazing plan for this little one. Here is just a small list of people advocating for Heath:
And there are more! Heath is well-loved! Lots of individuals are rooting and praying for him.
God himself is moving mountains for Heath. Just look at this increase in his adoption grant which i found both Saige at OnMyHeartMom and myself were tracking:
If you do your math, you will see from the above post, that God moved Heath‘s grant from a tiny US$240 in December 2011 to almost US$9000 in the middle of May 2012. Well over US$8,500 in 6 months.
Now watch God work the absolutely amazing:
According to my records, Heath had US$10,708.40 at the beginning of September and today (28th Sept 2012), God has moved hearts and hands and his adoption grant is at US$20,905.50. That is over US$10,000 in less than a month!! Much of this came from the amazing efforts of many of the ladies who wrote the blogs listed above. Such wonderful love, such faith, such unbelievably fabulous people! But most of all, such an out-of-this-world Good God!
Now, i have been informed that the total costs of an international adoption from Heath‘s country (sorry i can not tell you exactly where in Eastern Europe) is about US$20,000. So Heath is fully funded!!
This means that his forever family only needs to pay the initial paperwork costs – Commitment Fees, Homestudy, Getting Dossier together etc… which is about US$5000. The rest of the adoption is taken care of by Heath‘s huge adoption grant!
This whole post has been to let Heath‘s family know that when they commit to bring Heath home, they will not be alone in the process. There is a whole team all ready to support them in every way we can. And as you can already see, God is on our team too. So there is a guarantee of success 😀
So Heath‘s forever family, we are waiting for you. Heath is waiting for you. Please contact Reece’s Rainbow to find out about committing to bring Heath home.
i hope to get to know you soon. And support you in your journey to bring a much beloved Heath home.
If you do not feel led to be Heath‘s family, there are other ways to help.
Share his story so his forever family can find him.
Pray for him; for his daily needs; for him to stay strong and healthy till his family comes for him.
Donate to his adoption grant – yes, he is fully funded but to have more in there would mean that his forever family might be able to bless another orphan or another adoptive family during their journey. They may even be able to bless the other boys at his institute. Click on his name or picture to go to his profile.
Thank you so much if you have prayed along and support Heath and donated to his grant. Please continue to do so.
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