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 is a cutie who needs a family today!
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.
Yep, it has. A whole year since i stepped into the world of orphans with special needs.
12-year-old Heath, is a cutie who needs his family asap.
My beloved Heath was the one who led me into this wonderful yet frightening, beautiful yet terrible, amazing yet sad world where children are in so much need my heart was broken and remains so. Their stories are frightening, some of the conditions they live in are terrible, the lives they have in the institutions are simply too sad. But the children themselves are so wonderful and beautiful, and the parents who pursue them are so amazing.
My heart remains broken because my beloved Heath does not yet have a loving family to care for him. He is still sitting in his shared wheelchair, doing nothing all day, sometimes having a dirty old string to play with. This wonderful lady who brought Heath the attention he deserves; Wonderful Julia who has worked so hard to help grow his adoption grant shares my heart… hear what she has to say about Heathhere. (She has a few other posts about Heath, this is just the most recent one.)
My dream for Heath still stands… you can read about it here. i dream of how it would be for Heath in a family situation. What love they would give him and what a joy he would be to his forever family.
i wrote a letter to Heath’s family-to-be, telling them how much i love Heath and how many others also love him and are committed to helping him find a family and would be willing to help that family bring him home.
i celebrated Heath’s birthday for him from afar. i hope and pray that Heath‘s next birthday would be celebrated with the good news that he has a family!
God Himself has worked wonderful miracles for Heath, the fact that he is alive now is a miracle, the fact that he has food when many other orphans in his home country have to go without is another. But God truly moved mountains, moved hearts and hands when Heath‘s adoption grant grew within a year from a couple of hundred dollars to a FULL GRANT! See here and here for how it came to be.
That’s right, Heath has a FULL grant! Which means his forever family only need to come up with the initial commitment fees, home-study fees and a few other fees for documentation, finger-prints etc. … but all the travel and most of the agency fees are already funded!
i am praying for Heath‘s forever family to step forward as soon as possible. There is a possibility that Heath‘s home country might be closed to all international adoption as they may need to compile with the Hague Convention of 1993 (we don’t know if it would actually happen or when). While a country works to compile with the Hague Convention, they have to close all adoptions and it could take anywhere from a few months to years before they open again.
So please be brave, Heath‘s Family… please step forward and come bring Heath home.
Fear is easy, but love is hard…
i read this on A Place To Call Home… she wrote about how fearful she was to step out again to try to adopt (her heart was broken twice before), she showed how wonderfully God reached out to her heart and comforted it, strengthen it and helped her to be brave and step up and out to love once again. Please go here and read her story.
Heath‘s Forever Family… Heath waits for you. Please choose to love him and come bring Heath home.
Click on his name or picture to go to his profile page on Reece’s Rainbow. You can contact Reece’s Rainbow for details should you be interested in adopting Heath.
Everyone needs love; people need to know that they are loved, that someone out there cares for them and is on their team, that there is someone cheering for them… everyone needs to be shown love and needs to know that they are part of a family who will be there for them through all of life’s ups and downs.
God’s intention was and still is for humans to live together in communities and families to help each other through the long road of life. However, the reality of life is so very different. There are many who don’t even have or even know the very basic component which holds a family together – love; unconditional love, the i-will-love-you-even-if-you-fight-me type of love.
Today i hope you would love a little boy who has never know such love. A little boy who needs it so much it aches my heart to know that he has to face this world and his medical needs all by himself.
Eldon will be 9 this year – same as my little boy. But he will have no mummy or daddy to celebrate his birthday for him, or hold him when he hurts – like i did my little guy just yesterday when he felt hurt.
Eldon does have a number of medical conditions which with the care and attention of a loving family can be managed and he can live a fulfilling life. But where he is now, in an orphanage where he has to share everything, even clothes and carers, it would be very difficult.
Would you love Eldon today? Is he your son? Maybe? Yes? Contact Reece’s Rainbow to find out more.
Would you love Eldon today? Would you pray for him; for his daily needs, his medical needs and most of all, for his forever family to come for him as soon as possible?
Would you love Eldon today? Would you help grow his adoption grant? A bigger grant would help his forever family reach him faster. Please click on his name or picture to donate.
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