Category Archives: Created for Care Adoption Retreat Ok…so I needed just about 4 days to recover from the weekend and the 5 months of planning…and this momma is READY TO GO!!! I am SO, SO, SO thankful for the life the Lord has blessed me with–and how He has opened my eyes to SEE. I love my “new normal”. That is perfectly […] Here’s a list of the songs we sang throughout the weekend during worship. I’ve already made a cd in iTunes from them, How He Loves Us None But Jesus The Stand How Great Is Our God Your Grace Is Enough Mighty To Save Our God Come Away Never Let Go Healer Oh Lord Your Beautiful […] Thanks for doing the leg work on this! I downloaded all this morning! 🙂 That’s awesome! I had tried to write down every song we sang this weekend to do the same thing, but knew I was missing a few! I’ll be downloading this shortly! Thanks for an amazing weekend! I’ve even been told I looked radiant! 🙂 Wow… your ministry just keeps continuing even after this is over. What a God thing! I AM PRAYING I CAN MAKE THE NEXT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We should be settled into our new home in Tampa by then :)!!!!!!! I will be marking my calendar for sure!!!! LOVE the place you held it at this year…that King Bed was a-mazing! 🙂 BUT…thinking you’ll have to get the Braves stadium to fit all the people who want to come! So fun!!!! Thank you for sharing your stories and the encouragement you guys received at the Created for Care Retreat!!! I’d love to share your stories–so if you wrote something about the weekend on your blog–please send your blog address link about the weekend via my contact page so I can add it to the list! In […] I am so behind on blogging! Have still not blogged about this amazing weekend! Hope to get to it tonight, if I do, I will let you know so you can add my blog to the list, thanks for doing this, Andrea! Great idea! Just got all of my MANY pictures posted on our blog! Andrea, I know I’ve told you already, but the weekend was truly amazing!! What a blessing! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! Posted about our FABULOUS weekend retreat! I hope you realize just how MANY lives you helped God touch, Andrea! Your heart is beautiful!  WOW! I am finally coming up for air after crashing pretty early the last two nights! It was SUCH an amazing weekend–one that I really can’t put into words!! “REALLY, you say?” I know, I’m a writer at heart–but there are SO many things that were just amazing…AMAZING…about the weekend. Truly, I have NEVER in […] Andrea~ Thank you, thank you for taking me under your wing on Sunday and taking me to the airport. It was SO above and beyond and it blessed me – really! It was a treat to get to spend a few hours getting to know you. Thank you for all that you poured into the retreat. I’m praying for your new area of ministry this week. Praying that He will give you energy and wisdom to love and to listen and let Him move. You are Beautiful, Andrea, inside and out … I could feel the power and passion of this weekend in your writing. How awesome is our God – love this!! wow. what a beautiful weekend. sure wish i could have experienced it. but i feel like i am getting to live vicariously through everyone’s posts. it is obvious that the lord really met you all there. Sounds like God did immeasurably more than we prayed for! I just cannot tell you enough what a blessing last weekend was to my heart. I am so thankful that you said YES to God when He put this on your heart. I pray that your family will be abundantly blessed for being obedient to His calling. i am thoroughly enjoying reading on lots of adoption blogs about the Created for Care retreat! it seems like everyone had a blast and truly felt the Lord in that place! i can’t wait to see the dates for 2012; i’m ready to schedule it on my calendar…can’t miss it! thanks for all your hard work. God Bless! Thank you for following your heart and having this retreat. It was so encouraging to me. http://the-brown-brigade.blogspot.com/2011/02/sitting-at-foot-of-cross.html I’m still speechless about the weekend. It was awesome. It was life-changing. I’m going to try to crank out a post this week so it will have a page in our blog book for memories’ sake, but seriously, there are just no words to describe! Thank you so much for being God’s hands and feet in pulling it all together–it was clear that it was His doing and HE WAS THERE WITH US, but it only happened because you were willing to be the vessel! LOVE YOU!!! I am still processing this weekend as well. All I know is that I’m better for it!!! http://afr2007.blogspot.com/2011/02/created-for-care-retreat-2011.html It was a powerful weekend and I am looking forward to next year already! I posted it on my blog…but I was really challenged by Beth T. in one of the breakout sessions. She spoke about parenting your child in the Spirit…anyone that attended and did not get to go to that session be sure to listen to it…OUTSTANDING! God has clearly given her the ability to speak to the heart of women! Thanks Andrea for being obedient to God’s call not only on your life…but specifically in the planning of this retreat! Thank you for this amazing weekend! Such an encouraging, informative, challenging weekend for me-a first time mom! I blogged about it! http://www.addingastons.blogspot.com. I just posted one of several blog posts I plan to write about the retreat. It was so encouraging and refreshing. Looking forward to next year. Can you see all these comments??Is God not AWESOME!!! Loves to you girl! Such an amazing weekend. I’m amazed by the Lord completely showing up and speaking so loudly to so many of us. Thanks for taking the leap of faith to put it together. Thank you for following God’s leading for a weekend like this. I loved it and I still can’t come up with the words to express my time there. Andrea, it was an amazing weekend! And timed so perfectly for me! I can’t wait until next year! I posted (what I could with four precious children running around) 🙂 on my blog about the weekend http://www.bealladoptionjourney.blogspot.com Andrea! The retreat sounds absolutely incredible!!!!!! My heart just hurts when I read this b/c I wish I was there so badly! And, when I read that about what you said about orphans with HIV, it made me so emotional! It all resonated with my heart! We are waiting to bring home our little one with HIV, and I can’t stop thinking about him/her. I can’t wait to get him/her on the meds he/she needs…to hold him/her, love him/her, show him/her how special and loved he/she is! I never signed up to go on the retreat b/c we were already in the program and I assumed we would get a referral really quickly and that by Feb, we would be in travel-mode. But…we are still waiting!! Trusting in God’s perfect timing and sovereignty while LONGING for a little African baby to be in our arms! Just coming up for a breather…and wanted to post the video we shared at the WELCOME on Friday night!!! Now this video just represents a few of the families there! It was an AMAZING weekend of learning, encouragement, worship and PURPOSE! More to come from the weekend…but by all means–feel free to share this on […] Beautiful video ~ the song could not have been any more perfect. =) such a beautiful video. i know it was an amazing weekend. so wish i could have been there!!!! Super cute video, great work Andrea! Sooo hope to be there with all my Seattle girls next year =) We’re already talking about it! A common theme I keep hearing…”I didn’t know about that. I would have gone!”. I keep having to explain that since it filled up right away, I didn’t advertise it!!! You struck a need! LOVED this weekend, Andrea! It was so amazing!! Thank you so much for everything that you and your friends did for us! You are precious!! Since we were late arriving, I missed this- so thank you for posting it!!! What a fabulous weekend!! God is so good :). Thank you so much for following God and creating this event. It was such a blessing to me! Andrea, this weekend was SUCH a blessing to me. You and your team did an incredible job focusing on 250 mommas’ hearts! THANK YOU! The video is just beautiful. Amazing video!!! I wish so much I could have been there! But…. I heard you guys are going to do another one next year???? I will definitely be there! 🙂 I SOOOO wish I could have been there!! I just can’t wait to join everyone next year it’s a must.. It sounded amazing and to you a big thank you for following God’s call to organize such a great event!! I was so blessed this weekend. Though I left emotionally, spiritually, and physically exhausted God reminded me, once again, that He has a wonderful plan for our family. Thank you, Andrea, for all you did to make this weekend possible! LoVe it! Can’t wait to hear more!!! Oh what a great video!! How I wished I could have been there, but it sounds like you all had an AMAZING time:) Next year I will be there, Lord willing! hugs |
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Andrea- I love the Valentine’s Day cards and I love your bangs! Good job with all!!
Christie
You didn’t tell me you cut your bangs yourself! They look great! I haven’t done that since I was 4 and it didn’t work out so well for me that time….
Kylie has been carrying Frank’s Valentine picture around all morning….she even put “him” in a chair next to her during breakfast!!! Not gonna lie, you would make a REALLY cool MIL 🙂
Oh, and LOVE the bangs!! I may start coming to you house for haircuts!!
Andrea- you totally crack me up! Love your kiddos they are soo cute! Love your bag too 🙂
Can’t wait to hear your funny 🙂
girl… thanks for the shout out… me… you… Zambia… ITS ON!!!!
AND, the bangs are actually impressive… quite cute! nice job…. love you girl…
Hi Andrea. Been reading your blog for a while now but haven’t commented yet. I just wanted to say THANK YOU for not being content to just stay where God had you. Thank you for being willing to step out in faith and adopt and share about the good and the hard and to be a voice through your blog for orphans everywhere. God has used you to help me get a clearer vision of what adoption is about and strengthened my faith that God’s grace will be sufficient no matter what along the adoption process that we’re in. I really think the Lord must be so pleased with how you are seeking to be His hands and feet. Thanks for being His instrument of grace!