Today is New Year's Eve...........we aren't able to make it to Luke's families house cause well, we have 4 kids (not ours.....and well....one is 20yr old is that a kid?) not to mention our family. So we decided to stay home. But Luke's family will be coming on day 3 of Chinese New Year. Day 2 one of our "girls" is coming to our house with her family for dinner. Traditionally, day 2 is when the married women go back to their families house. This girl, well, young lady, Wendy, feels we are her family. Her dad and 2 brothers don't call or anything, she doesn't have any new numbers for them, so it has been decided for her to come "home". Granted we see her every Sunday and sometimes more, but still, she considers us family more than her own family.
We have many ministries. Alot of mine is with the teens who have come through our house and the unwed mothers we have come in contact with. At times, we just shake our heads at some of them. One of our girls, came from an alcoholic family, really a broken torn up family. Yet the few times she has gone back, she still gives them money, still feels "bad" for them. I guess it is just hard for me to understand how they have been treated so bad by family, yet they turn soft around them. It will be something I can never really understand, but just gotta be there for the mess afterwards.
It is now that I need to share somethings with my readers. Some things are sorta changing at Morning Light, yet things are getting better. One thing that will change alot is adoptions. After 8months or so of prayer, seeing advice and counsel and watching God open doors when we asked and God answering prayers in some pretty specific ways, it has been decided that we go under an agency. I know WHAT ????? some of you are saying, WHY??? Well, the more we have been doing all the work for adoptions, the more we have researched, the more realize that having an agency behind us will help us in many ways:
1. it will take alot of work off of us......not that I don't mind answering questions, but now the families can ask the agency and the agency ask me in say one big email, or after a number of cases, they can pretty much answer themselves...............currently, I am the main one trying to answer all the questions from every case we have and everything together and set.................folks, this is time consuming and in someways, I have seen it affect my family and my children as well
2. the agency is a wonderful Christian agency with a great doctrinal stand and we feel is not exhuberantly priced as some agencies are
3. the agency is not adoption ministry only, but for children's home and unwed mothers; they have children's home for the unadoptable children and ministry to those that otherwise are forgotten
4. having a Hague Convention approved agency (though Taiwan is not Hague country.....Taiwan isn't even a country by most countries termsLOL!!) this will help us have a bit more push behind us we feel; we feel that this will be best in the future as well
The agency we have been talking about is All God's Children International. They are in the beginning with us and the Taiwan program. We are taking it slow mind you as the program is still in the very very beginning stages. We ask that you pray for us as we work with them and pray for them as they have stepped out in faith to support us and this program. We feel that God is beginning to do wonderful things, we just need to be ready. Any questions about the program can be directed to them, but I do not know how many apps they will be taking. We will only take so many cases at a time. So, please be patient.
I leave you with this picture of baby A, Anna (our 6month old dd) Baby J and Baby C who were ALL AT MY HOUSE last weekend..............we discovered that 4 infants is way past our limit:-):
