Well, God is just amazing!!!

If you have followed my facebook, you would have seen the call for action for prayer for a mom. I will post it here as well.

The mom is 36, low income, husband needs surgery, 4 children and pregnant with #5 (a boy more than likely). She had originally gone to one dr for an abortion, and he sent her on to our dr, Dr. Li. He saw the healthy baby and told the mom about Morning Light Center and how we could help her. Later he told me that he spent alot of time talking with her. He said he could see a change (for the good) in her face and body as a whole when he said she had other options.

I am almost in tears as I write this!! God allowed us to meet her and she will meet us again on Friday. She will have to do an amniocentisis, which we will probably look into paying for (after subsidy there will be $75roughly left over to have to pay.)

This though comes to a part where we push for "ministry" in our work. We are a center that works with women in crisis no matter the situation. Unfortunately, some places around the world feel that if we can adopt overseas that we should send them on to someplace else. After all, have bills to pay. Now, that doesn't sound nice, but that is the feeling we get. But, nope, God is our boss and we will serve HIM faithfully til the very end. This actually makes mom number 2 recently that is in her 30's! So, see, we don't work with just underage girls!

The painting has left me soooooooooooo sore today!! They are finishing it up, I will wait til it looks all nice and the rooms put back together before pictures:-).

We have some plans coming up due to some possible changes. I will hopefully get things typed up and written out more, but they will be just keeping us going independently and strong! For example:
1. support for rent: 350US/m*12= $4200US for one years rent for the momma's home!!
2. total support for center : $760US/m*12= $9120US for one year

Of course adding them up together looks scary!! But if we look at it in bits and pieces, for example $2100US will pay for 6months of rent for the momma's home! looks better that way doesn't it.

We also will be making a sponsor a momma program so that others can have a part in helping out mommas, no matter if the momma is giving up baby for adoption or not, we don't want to have her to feel she ONLY has abortion as an option.

Some ideas for fundraisers that you or your family or Sunday school or homeschoolers coop, somethings that can be done to help:
1. Read a thon (or somekind of a thon): I read this on another blog about a family doing this for supporting education in Haiti. Their children were getting sponsors for either books completed or reading time. Like $1US for every 15min of reading. Then at the end of the fundraising period, things were tallied up and sponsors sent money. I think this is awesome for a class or homeschool family or co op! I might try to get this worked out with my kids
2. Baby Bottles: have empty baby bottles that friends and family or churches or offices can put change in, when filled up then you can collect them.
3. Garage sales/yard sales (though with the USA cold weather right now, that is last from your minds I am sure!)

These are just some ideas, maybe you all could think of some more?  I will be quite frank with you and say that for MLH and Crisis Pregnancy Center, after figuring up a conservative (well, based on current situation) budget, we will need approximately $75,000US to run everything. I am looking at grants....but no idea where to start!!

Ok, well, I will get off of here for now and get somethings done. But keep us in prayers. We don't know what the Lord has in store, we aren't going home on furlough this year now because of the work here. God is in control!

Deana