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The ABCs… for the betterment of the Orphans…

A: Adoption – that’s the final goal of Reece’s Rainbow’s advocate ministry – to get these precious ones a home, a loving family to care for them and help their fulfill their potential. i pray that for my son everyday – that he will fulfill his potential. So consider adopting one of these precious ones if you are looking to expand your family and are in a position to adopt.

B: Be Bold and tell the world about the needs of these special needs orphans. Share their stories so that their forever family can find them soon. Speak for them for they can not speak for themselves.

C: Cheer the families on. Encourage the families who are on a wonderful, scary and difficult adoption journey; a journey to bring home a little one (or a few little ones). Support them financially if you can. Pray for them. Comment on their blogs to help them keep their spirits up.

D: Devote time to pray. As you can see there is so much and so many to pray for. Join up as a Prayer Warrior. Prayers can move mountains because God has promised that He will answer, especially when 2 or 3 are gathered in His Name. And there are more than 2 or 3 in the Prayer Warrior group.

E: Encourage others to join you as you advocate, pray and donate/fundraise. Get a team together and make it a project! It is a great cause and will bring people together.

F: Faith. Have faith. Have faith on behalf of these lovely children that God is working right this very minute to bring a family to them.

G: Give generously. Donate; towards the Voice of Hope Fund or towards the adoption grant of a specific orphan who touches your heart. Or a few of them, as the Lord leads.

H: Hope. Bring hope. You bring hope by simply being involved – whether through prayer or advocating or simply giving what little you can. You may not see it but you bring hope when you decide that these fatherless, motherless children are worth your time, even if it is just a tiny bit of it.

Today is Tuesday & on the Reece’s Rainbow Prayer Warrior group Facebook page, it is Teamwork Tuesday. On this day, we all (those who are taking part) show off the child of the week. As i am a little unclear as to who we are supposed to show off, i will show off the 2 kids, both picked for the 2nd half of May.

Meet Andrey:

Andrey is 5 years old and spent those years without a family. He has been waiting so very long… He needs a mummy/daddy today.

Boy was born in May 2007
Diagnosis: Down syndrome and possible other facial deformities
Personable, active, friendly! And being saved from the same place as Kirill.

Here’s Quinten:

Quinten is 3 years old, the perfect age to be integrated into a loving family who will help him reach his potential. He needs his family now.

(Photo on the right)

Date of Birth: August 2009
Gender: Male
Eyes: Gray
Hair: red
Character: noisy, active
Diagnosis: DS (Down syndrome), delayed development, protein-calorie deficiency, non-malignant growth

As you can see there is very little known about these 2 boys, but that doesn’t mean their need is less… to me, it means that their need is more because we don’t know the true situation they are in or their exact medical condition. Andrey doesn’t even have enough information to get a donation button. But their bright eyes say so much; they speak of how much they long to do, how much they can do if only they are given the chance to. And that chance can exist, but they need a caring family to provide that chance and support and encourage these amazing kids.

Please do pray for them. Do not turn away. Advocate for them. Consider adopting Quinten if you can. These children need us to stand in the gap for them.

Do also remember my little Heath & lovely Heather in your prayers and efforts.

syc

PS: this ABCs was inspired by this wonderful lady…

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Being Grateful…

A rainbow always reminds me of how gracious God is to allow Noah to save his family & the animals so that we are all here today… and to see a double rainbow! Thank you God.

i have been rather very frustrated with my little guy these couple of days. “Why?”, you ask.

Well, he is turning 8 (yes, time certainly has flown). And of course an upcoming birthday means presents! Now normally i’m as excited as my son about presents. i love ripping the wrapper off and gasping at the lovely gift. But this time, instead of feeling that excitement, i have increasingly felt how demanding my 8-year old can be.  i feel his “ungratefulness” so much more than ever before. Why? i’m not quite sure.

It seems that he is always wanting more. Which child doesn’t? It seems that he isn’t happy with what he already has or is so very quickly bored with what he has been given. But haven’t most of us at some point in time felt that the grass is greener on the other side?

i think some of these feelings come from having my heart broken over my little Heath and my lovely Heather. They have so little, NO, they have nothing! They have no toys or books and certainly have not been given presents. They have no mummy or daddy who would care whether they knew how to be grateful for what they have. They would be very grateful just for someone who would smile at them, talk to them and play with them. They would even be grateful for just a little part of a toy or a rag of a doll to call their own.

11 year old Heath is a cutie who needs his family asap.
10 year old Heather is a sweetie needing a family asap.

Look at their small innocent faces. i can’t stand that they have been all alone in this world all these years and in institutes at that, understaffed, underfunded places which don’t really care!! They would thrive so well in a loving family environment. They would be a wonderful addition to any family. Would that be your family? Click on their picture to find out more.

You can help, even if you can’t adopt. You can pray for them, you can donate towards their adoption grant, you can share their stories far and wide so that their family can find them faster. You can help, so please do.

If you do help, do leave a comment below so i can thank you personally.

syc

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Who Am I?…

A rainbow always reminds me of how much God loves us.

i wondered about this question a fairly bit – at least when i was a child growing up, even more as a teenager trying to define herself. i have not asked this question of myself for quite a while now but the other day, it popped into my mind again. It caused me to look at myself today and myself maybe 20 years earlier (showing my age, huh?)

So who am i? i am a mother, a wife, a daughter, a friend, a sister, a godmother, a sister-in-christ, a writer, a blogger (yes there is a difference between the two), a photographer (not professionally, but passionately), and most importantly, i am a child of God.

Does any one role define me? Can any one role tell you about the whole me? No, i believe i am all of that and, prayerfully, i hope i am also much more than my roles.

i love being a wife and a mother – a home manager in essence. i enjoy being a friend and a sister-in-christ. i wish i could be a better daughter and godmother. i hope that my passion in life would be revealed through my writing and blogging. i want to be a professional photographer (maybe some time in the future i will be).

But the one role that possibly tells you more about me than any of the others is – i am a child of God. i believe, 100 and 1 percent, that i am God’s creation and i am here to fulfill His purposes.

Is that too simplistic a way to think? Maybe. But life is complicate enough as it is, i don’t need to make it even harder.

However, being God’s child does not mean that all my other roles take a backseat. In fact, it gives them more direction. When i am with my son, i am a mother to him and i pray i will be able to mirror God to him. Love him as God loves me. When i am with my husband, i am a wife and again God speaks very clearly about this in the Bible (see here). When i am with my parents/parents-in-law, i aim to be as loving and filial a daughter/daughter-in-law as i can be because God says to honour my parents.

You see there is no question as to what i should be doing in each situation because if you look at the Bible, truly look at God’s word, it is all there.

Now TODAY, right now, i want to bring my role as a prayer warrior and advocate of special needs orphans to the forefront. Most of you would know that i have been a prayer warrior with Reece’s Rainbow for more than 2 months now. You have read about my little Heath and my lovely Heather. And i thank you for your kind attention.

10 year old Heather, is a healthy sweetie who needs a family asap.

i still pray for them both but TODAY i want to highlight Heather. She is an adorable little girl who has Down Syndrome. But because of that one little extra chromosome, she is an orphan. She will be turning 11 in a few months and have had no one care about that for all those long years. We have very little information about her and that does not bear well, because we have no real knowledge of her actual condition and the circumstances she lives in. What we do know is that she is a child who needs a loving family to care for her, to choose her to be part of their family so that she can excel in life. Could you be her family? Would you join me in prayer for her?

i feel that Heather seems to be overlooked and the reason being there is so little known about her. But as i have said before, this does not make her need less, it makes her need more. The way i see it, she is more neglected in a way than little Heath who has had a little bit more exposure (this is only because a family managed to spot him – no interaction was allowed – when they went to pick up their adopted son from the same institute).

So please don’t let her be pushed to the side any longer. Share her story, donate to her adoption grant  (click here) – a large increase in her grant would get her more notice and make it easier for a family to reach her, pray that her family comes for her. Thank you.

syc