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A Light…

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 God and 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.

syc

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Seeing and Hearing Clearly…

This photo was updated in 2011. Such big beautiful blue eyes with such wonderful potential.

That’s what this little guy would like – i think… but i know that what he wants most, what he needs most is a loving family. A family to call his own, a family who would call him their son, their brother, a family who would help him to see clearly the beauty of life and hear well the sounds of joy.

This little guy’s name is Beckett. He is 3 years old and lives in an institute. His special needs are some vision loss in one eye and some hearing loss in one ear. He has NO other special needs. He is otherwise healthy!

How many of you have heard of or even seen with your own eyes, visually impaired or  hearing impaired persons living a full life? We all know that these are minor, treatable special needs in light of today’s advance medicine.

But without a caring family to encourage him, to support him in his minor medical needs, Beckett may never have the opportunity to live that full life.

Please pray for Beckett that his forever family finds him. Pray that his daily needs are met.

Please share his story so that his adoptive family might notice and come for him.

This is an updated photo – 2012. Can you see that little spark has lessen? This boy needs his family to come for him today.

Have you ever considered that maybe you could be the one to give this little guy just that opportunity in life? An opportunity to have a family? Are you his family? If this thought ever occurred to you, please contact Reece’s Rainbow for more details.

Having enough funds or a lack of funds is always a factor in adoptions, especially in international adoptions which can costs up to US$45,000, depending on the country and region. So i also would like to appeal to you to help grow Beckett‘s adoption grant. A bigger grant means less of an obstacle for his family to reach him. Click on his name or his picture to get to donate button.

Thank you very much.

syc

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For Jenny and Jordan…

i want to introduce you to Jenny and Jordan – they are a sister and brother pair and they are both developmentally on par. Jenny is said to be very smart. But they are missing something or i should say some persons… parents… that’s right they are orphans. And Jenny is HIV+, which is easily managed with medications.

8-year old Jenny & her 4-year old brother are waiting for a family…

Looking at her picture, you could never tell that she is an orphan. She has such a lovely smile! i wish i had a picture of her younger brother, Jordan, to show you. i’m sure he is a cutie too.

These are perfectly developmentally normal children who should not be spending their days in an orphanage. They should be going to school, having sibling rivalry and driving their parents up the walls.

Jenny is 8 years old and Jordan is 4 years old. They would benefit so much from being part of a loving family. They would be able to fulfill their dreams, whether that is having ice cream on a cold winter’s day or becoming a pilot or being the child of caring parents.

Please help them, please give them the advantage of having a family to support them through life. Please share their story so that their forever family might find them.

Please donate to their adoption grant which is extremely low at the moment. A bigger adoption grant would mean a lack of funds would not prevent them from having a family. Click on Jenny’s picture or their names to go to their profile page to donate.

Are you thinking about adding to your family? If so, would you consider adding Jenny and Jordan to your family? Contact Reece’s Rainbow to find out how you can adopt them.

syc