Only a Few More Days

The Bible Orphan Ministry's Gifts for Graduates Project only lasts for a couple more days. Please consider giving something toward this project to help them meet their goal!

Gifts for Graduates Project

My dear friends in Ukraine, The Bible Orphan Ministy, have begun a new project. Each year orphans reach the maximum age and  "graduate". Graduation sounds like a good thing, but it isn't always. These teens must leave the orphanage which is the only home most of them have. You can read more about it on the Bible Orphan Ministry's blog in this post.

They have begun the Gifts for Graduates Project to raise money to purchase gifts for some of the children who will be leaving the orphanages. They would like to bless 80 teens with a gift of kitchen utensils and a blanket. They would like to spend $22.75 on each teen. They have only one month to raise $1820.

Lets pray for the team and the graduates. Let's help them raise the sum they need to purchase something for the children. In most cultures, 16 isn't old enough to be turned out into the world. It would be nice for them to have a little something that they need and to know that someone cared enough about them to give them a gift on their graduation day.

Princess Masha

Little Masha got her few seconds of fame on the ABC News video that featured Reece's Rainbow and some of the children in institutions in Ukraine. The video is just seconds, but it shows how sweet Masha is and how she wants to be loved and has love to share. If you watch the video, the bit about Masha starts at 1:37 minutes.

Masha has over $2700 in her RR grant. But what she really needs is a family!

Not only has Masha been on national television, but she is also known and loved by my dear friend Alla of The Bible Orphan Ministry. Alla and her team members call her Miss Masha and she is their little princess. You can read their post about her Here 

She is described as smart and sweet. She would do so well in a family. Many of the girls she lives with will never have the opportunity to be adopted into a family. Masha has an opportunity. I'm praying that someone turns that potential into reality and brings her home and LOVES her.

If anyone is at all interested in learning more about her, write to Alla at bibleorphanministry@mail.ru and ask questions or ask to see more pictures of her. Our family will be praying that her family finds her soon.

Harmony only has 120 Days

There is a little girl on Reece's Rainbow named "Harmony". She only has 120 days to find a family. After that, she will be too old, and will have lost her chance of a family.

Her picture isn't usually allowed to be posted, but it is allowed for just one day. You can read more and see her picture HERE. She is precious and sounds like such a great girl.

Please pray that this sweet little girl gets a family. Spread the word about her if you can.

Stacy

I am praying for this little girl.

She is listed on Reece's Rainbow as Stacy. She is 5 years old and she is in desperate need of a family.

Stacy has already been transferred to an Institution!!

Even when she was still at her Baby House she was stuck in a crib. A visiting family took a picture of her through the glass of the room she was kept in.

Is it just me, or do you get the feeling she will not do well in a worse place?

Please join me in praying for her family to find her. The Lord has taught us over this past year that praying matters! Let's pray that the Lord holds her in His hand and cradles her in His Perfect Love. Let's pray that He touches a family's heart to cooperate with Him in her rescue, and that the family responds and takes the steps necessary to bring her home!

Home

I started this blog last year to advocate for Kathleen, a beautiful little girl who happened to be an orphan living in an orphanage in Ukraine. She had captured my heart with her sparkling blue eyes and her expression that seems so full of hope and expectation.

God put her in my heart and it became very important to me to hold her up and to pray that she would get a family. And a family did find her, and they also chose another little girl to be her sister. They crossed the world and spent many weeks living in the girls' country doing all the things necessary to make it possible for them to become their own daughters so they could bring them home.

And now, Kathleen has a new family, a new name, and a new nationality in addition to the one of her birth. She will be raised to know how much God loves her and that Jesus died to save her. She has brothers and sisters and grandparents...real family. She is HOME.

The Bible Orphan Ministry's New Project

The Bible Orphan Ministry has started a new project. They are raising money to purchase gifts to give to the children in the orphanages they visit.

There are 1055 children altogether in the orphanages they visit. They would like to spend $6 on each child. They'd like to get coloring books, crayons, and other small toys for the little ones, and socks, shampoo, toothpaste and other much needed items for the teens and young adults.

To spend just a few dollars on each child really adds up when you have 1055 children to buy for, but it will mean so much to each child who receives a gift.

Go HERE to read more about their project. They have a chip-in on the sidebar of their blog. Please consider donating to help them reach their goal. This would make a great project for a homeschool group or church youth group.

Leonard

This little guy's Reece's Rainbow name is Leonard. There is not much listed about him. Besides being 9 years old and having Down's Syndrome there is just a short description. "very quiet, friendly and cheerful."

That short description and that lost looking little face have truly tugged at my heart. This boy looks like such a sweet, gentle guy.

I just imagine that he has been shuffled through nine long years. Going where he's told, doing what he's told...just trying to get by. Trying to get what he needs, but stay out of the way. Trying to make sense of things. People always in a hurry. No one truly sees him or takes the time to slow down to his pace to understand and help him to understand.

I'm going to be praying for this guy. Praying that he gets noticed. Praying that his family finds him and brings him home this year. Praying that he holds on while he waits. 

He needs a family, but something tells me that somewhere there is a family in need of him too. I'm guessing that he will be such a blessing to someone. I'll be praying that the Lord works out the details.

Look who's Smiling!

Delia's mom, Susan sent a couple pictures of Delia from her visit in November. She has given me permission to post them. I knew that those who have loved and prayed for her would love to see her smiling! What a beautiful girl. So wonderful to know that she is loved and will be coming home soon.

New Comment for Delia's Mom

UPDATE: Delia's mom, Susan left a comment here giving an update. Thanks, so much! She sounds so great. It is wonderful to know that she has been found, that she is loved, and that she will soon be home with her family. Susan, if you ever want to e-mail a picture to me, I'd be happy to post it. Hannah, for one, would be thrilled to see a picture of her smiling.

I received a new comment for Delia's mom on this post asking for an update.

So, Susan if you're reading and you'd like to update, we would love to post it here.