We started our day at church…a service which was a good 4-5 hours long. We danced…we sang…we worshipped. And I held back tears. I saw him before we walked into church. He was standing outside…around the same age as my older children at home…maybe just 5 or 6. It was apparent he had scabies when […]
Just wanted to let y’all know we made it safely to Ndola today around lunch time. We pretty much went straight to the school to see the widows program. They had a graduation ceremony where 15 ladies graduated in the hospitality program (cleaning/hotel work)–and the AMAZING news is…ALL 15 now have JOBS!!! There were 30 […]
We just got in…and I’m about to CRASH!!! I’m roomies with Christina Boyce…another fun adoption momma! (Her baby girl and my baby boy are from the SAME orphanage through AGCI in Ethiopia! How cool is it we are serving in Zambia together AND roommies!!!) We got in to J-burg South Africa just a few hours […]
HOPE AT HOME 2011 CONFERENCE, SEPTEMBER 23-24 One of the things I love about being a parent, and about talking about parenting, is that it is the most fertile ground I know of to work out the truth of the Gospel. It’s the real “rubber meets the road” stuff of life, don’t you think? And […]
It’s finally here and we are off! You probably won’t hear from me in the next 48 hours…but I have someone who is going to post about this awesome adoption parenting weekend for both men and women coming up this September called “Hope for Home”. Then after that–I hope to be able to blog here […]