Category Archives: Orphan & Widow Care SO…of course if you read yesterday’s post–you heard the BIG news that our Isaac is CRAWLING! I can’t WAIT to share our physical therapist’s reaction that we get at PT on Wednesday morning!!! He is ALL OVER the place! Rich and I were laughing tonight because we are so used to having him sit in […]  My husband and I were just enjoying a cup of decaf and began discussing football (if you KNOW US you are really wondering WHY we are discussing football!). Well, we live in the South–and it’s the land of college football, but we, honestly, think it’s crazy (sorry football fans–we just don’t get it! I know, […] …I also ‘tried’ to read this families amazing story to my husband and couldn’t do it either… through the tears and the huge lump in my throat… This thing called life… is not a spectator sport! I believe God wants us to hop off our comfy couch and do something. We will be on our knees praying for this awesome family and we’ll check out Baby Zoowan. Thank you so much for sharing… First of all, not a football fan either…so I don’t think your crazy! =) WOW! This is OUR story. Don’t know if you remember … we were headed down the long road to China to adopt our daughter when we got the call about premature twins. One medically fragile. The rest is history. What an honor it will be to pray for this family. Thank you for sharing their story that confirms God’s plans are ALWAYS bigger and better than we could ever imagine! Hey Andrea….thank you for this post! My hubby is also not into football….and it wears him out that all men talk about is sports. “Is there nothing more to life?” he always wants to ask!We don’t have a tv, and the first response people always hae is, “well how do you watch football?” A part of me wants to ask, “well how do you spend time with your family or in the word?” (Not that you can’t do both with a tv:) Actually, when we came to watch you and ITY at the airport, it was soooo exciting for my hubs. He spent a whole 3 hours visiting with some great men (like Krisit J’s hubs and Richard) and never once discussed sports. All of the men there wanted to talk about how much they love their wives and kids, orphan and widow care and their love for the Lord. It was great! He came home asking, “what is we Christians got just excited about joining together and praising, prayer and studing the word as we do for a fooball game?” What a day that will be!!!!! I was thinking the EXACT same thing in the middle 102,000 people at the Tennessee football game this weekend… I bet you have also considered how much money each game brings in. What if we paid $60+ to go to church to cheer on Jesus- or thousands for season tickets. Amazing- So good to know that I am not alone in those thoughts. I loved this post on football! You put it into words so well! I have never gotten it like my husband has and I just love the way you put it, how we need to worship God like how everyone worships football! thanks for this friend! LOVED the adoption story too…WOW! What a story! Much more exciting than any football game – not that I’ve watched any recently! I appreciate you sharing and I will check out the website. What an incredible family – readily responding to the Lord’s leading without doubt or fear. Glad you enjoyed the article… AND, I like Isaac’s hair! 🙂 Love your analogy with football. I too live in the south….and don’t get into football. I agree with you that I am not against it, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all got that excited about church & the body of Christ!!! AMEN!!! Believing with you for Isaac!!! PRAYING TOO 🙂 LOVE the story about the family- read that on someone else’s blog- how incredible!!!!!!!!!! You GO girl!! Yesterday football and today animals!! I SO admire your guts to voice your feelings. I feel the same way about these issues but I am not as bold in my faith. You are truely an inspiration. I’ve wept, rejoiced, and prayed all throughout the reading! Our God is AMAZING!!! Thank you for sharing this testimony! Andrea- I loved your post about football. I am a little opposite in my opinion though. I LOVE football and my husband LOVES it even more. (I even play in a fantasy league with mostly men!) I mean we are those crazy people that throw things at the TV:) But this EXACT thought has been on my heart for a long time. I remember being at a game in college standing there just listening to the roar of 80,000 ish people and just for a second wondered, “what if all these people were screaming for Jesus, with this much passion, this much drive, this much emotion?” I remeber tears streaming down my face. I was also at church a few weeks ago and was just looking around during worship at how tired and weary everyone looked. Why do we not pursue our Maker the same way we pursue such wordly things. It really is heartbreaking, even from a LOVER of sports. Which has made me think even more….I have for a long time thrown around the idea of trying to start some non-profit organiztion for soemthing involving widows/orphans/world hunger…..or something. What if every person that went to a football game on the weekends gave a dollar per game? Do you know how much money that would be? I have estimated anywhere from 1 million to 3 million dollars….PER GAME. I just don’t even know where to start to get something like this started. Volunteers? Buckets for money collection? Advertising? The legality of it all? Getting the money mailed to the right people? Do you have any ideas? But what an awesome way this would be to take something and bring glory back to Jesus! whats the trick for longer hair??? Just finished catching up on your last few posts. I’m SO thrilled for you with regards to Isaac’s crawling accomplishment! I am drying my eyes as I celebrate what God has done by uniting this family with those precious boys. And I too, attended Auburn c/o 2000, and haven’t been to a game since, but LOVE your analogy of passionate pursuit of the worship of God! And, happy to report that we got part 1 of our Pad Project mailing sent to Sarah this afternoon! Love seeing God at work! If you missed us posting this just around 11 days ago–I wanted to give you an update on where we are so far. Our goal is to have 500 $45 kits purchased to help protect Wiphan students at night. These orphans will be given a reed mat to put a foam mattress on (they will […] Wow! That is so wonderful! And so quick. 🙂 Wow! What an amazing, amazing ministry!  While I really wanted to tell you all about Richard’s fried green tomatoes and his to-die-for dipping sauce…that will have to wait. I just had to share my precious friend Asher’s ministry with you. Asher and I go way back when we were both photographers. She is in North Carolina and I’m a Georgia peach…but […] My stepfather always says, “Good begets good.” This post is proof of that. Cannot wait to check out Asher’s ministry. And please .. . no more teasing about seasons that don’t exist in Hong Kong. :o) Love SOLE HOPE!!! =) Great post about the chick behind the Soles. Once again you have opened my eyes!!  There are TWO videos posted in today’s post…so please go ahead and turn the volume off up top so you can enjoy! FIRST–just in case you missed my post yesterday on Project 2, please check it out after you watch this… Operation Silent Night – Wiphan Care Ministries from Wiphan Care Ministries on Vimeo. NEXT […] I was wondering what size panties should we purchase for the kist? I know some of them will be going to younger girls and some to women so I’m not sure what size to buy. Would it be ok to put more than 2 pair in each kit if we want to? Thanks! Andrea ~ you just make me smile all the time when I read your blog. Even when your blog is talking about feminine pads – you know how to bring love and tenderness into life. Love, love, love ya!! Oh, I never knew they were wearing the same bib while at HH! How precious! Maybe Caroline Faith will wear it one day too! 🙂 Mailing my check to Wiphan today!! Thanks for sharing our video. I didn’t see anyone wearing the valentine bib when we were there, but it could have been in the wash. Hugs to you! Andrea I don’t know how I’ve missed all this! I guess it’s because our August got crazy busy and then I got really really sick last week… BUT now that I have looked back and figured out the deal I am SO ON BOARD! My heart is just bursting to start making these! I am going to talk to a couple of ladies at church that I know are sewers too and see if they would be interested in coming to a party. I definitely want to host one! We’d be aiming for the Dec. 1 deadline and I would ship to you since we’re East Coasters. I can’t wait to share this very real need and pray that others would get on board to help! I of course love Elijah’s video! 🙂 What if Tucker got to wear the V-Day bib? That would be the most amazing thing! If I have my head on straight when we go I will definitely take extra bibs to get you the Valentine’s one! 🙂 What an awesome project! I would love to see if I can organize a group to make some pads in time for the December trip. I had to leave you a comment about the bib…we just brought our daughter home from Ethiopia in July (in fact, I think we were in Ethiopia at the same time!) and I really wanted to bring home the funny little shoes {black patent leather with bows on them}that she was wearing in her referral picture. She had them on when we met her too…BUT, it just didn’t feel right to take them with us. It just felt strange..I thought that there were so many other little ones who needed the shoes…now I really wish I had them! They were so precious. Oh well. At least we have pictures to remember the special details… Just put the link on my FB…will try to spread the word. Does anyone have the pattern for this? I am very interested in helping with this. Please email me at marobinson2006(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you so much. |
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Oh I just want to get my hands on those precious kiddos of your and give um a big squeeze! We definitely need to think of a reason to travel to Atlanta some day! After we bring our “Peaches” home of course!