We are scared, excited and but also feel so blessed! We believe we can make a difference in one more child's life! Anybody can make differences, by praying, sharing, donating and just supporting emotionally! We cannot afford adoption now, and also our current housing situation will not let us adopt another child. Hosting it's another option to help orphan! Our kids are super excited to help and bring another child into our family! I get questions everyday, when will she come!
We never though that we would host, it was something that we never fully understood. But God was doing His job in our hearts and home.
If you remember, about 2 year ago we did respite care for V., Ukrainian orphan who came here on hosting program, but things didn't go the way they should in his first family, and he spend 3 weeks in our home. It was a blessing! We got a chance to bless him, pray over him, cloth him, and just spend really good family time together. It was new experience! His family found him, and now he is with his new family!
Also about 1 year ago we did respite care for another little boy Kolya. I didn't write much about him, because he spend only about 1 weeks with us. This experience was not so good , but we are happy we were there to help him.
I was their mom, I was a person who took care of them! God gave me a privilege of being their mom, maybe for short period of time, but these who children called me MOM! I feel blessed!
Hosting changed our hearts, and our view on hosting. Seriously, we thought, why host? Why give hopes to a child, if you know you will have to send back to the orphanage? It was us, it was our understanding of whole hosting thing!
But God showed us different side of it! God was moving our hearts, and the way we were looking at hosting. And I asked myself these questions and I can ask same questions many people. Why are you going to Hawaii, Mexico, Caribbean Cruises, and any vacation? Why? You probably would love to live in Hawaii or any exotic place? And you should stay in your home, your everyday life because if you go and see Hawaiian life, you will probably want to stay there forever, but you know you cannot, so why even bother and go to vacation?
We never though that we would host, it was something that we never fully understood. But God was doing His job in our hearts and home.
If you remember, about 2 year ago we did respite care for V., Ukrainian orphan who came here on hosting program, but things didn't go the way they should in his first family, and he spend 3 weeks in our home. It was a blessing! We got a chance to bless him, pray over him, cloth him, and just spend really good family time together. It was new experience! His family found him, and now he is with his new family!
Also about 1 year ago we did respite care for another little boy Kolya. I didn't write much about him, because he spend only about 1 weeks with us. This experience was not so good , but we are happy we were there to help him.
I was their mom, I was a person who took care of them! God gave me a privilege of being their mom, maybe for short period of time, but these who children called me MOM! I feel blessed!
Hosting changed our hearts, and our view on hosting. Seriously, we thought, why host? Why give hopes to a child, if you know you will have to send back to the orphanage? It was us, it was our understanding of whole hosting thing!
But God showed us different side of it! God was moving our hearts, and the way we were looking at hosting. And I asked myself these questions and I can ask same questions many people. Why are you going to Hawaii, Mexico, Caribbean Cruises, and any vacation? Why? You probably would love to live in Hawaii or any exotic place? And you should stay in your home, your everyday life because if you go and see Hawaiian life, you will probably want to stay there forever, but you know you cannot, so why even bother and go to vacation?
We want to bring a 14 year old girl to America, and give her summer vacation she never had. This little girl recently lost her mom. We don't know much about her, but know that she is in the orphanage, with out family. If she will have a chance to come to America for vacation the experience itself will be more than she has ever had, and something that will likely change her life forever. This is her chance to see what "normal" is and to spend few weeks in a family.
We heard this not too long ago, and trying to live by this powerful words "God doesn't want us to be comfortable... He wants us to trust Him by doing something life changing" and ''Our unusual response brings unusual blessings'' by Troy Marshall.
We have a donation button on our blog. Unfortunately costs of helping orphans, saving lives is high! But for God nothing is impossible!
God's calling is clear:
James 1:27- "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
Psalm 68:5 - "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling."
Matthew 18:5 - "And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me."
Psalm 68:5 - "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling."
Matthew 18:5 - "And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me."
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