Where do I begin?

Sometimes I am hesitant on posting things here. Should I be? I am afraid that posting things on here, if there is a mom or baby, everyone on our waiting list will start getting the "check the email every 5minutes" syndrome thinking it is a referral for them. I do hope that you all allow me to post here in freedom.

If you walked into our house right now, what would you see? Well, I have 3 infants napping, but all different spots. Baby J is in the big boys room on a mat on the floor, Baby A is in his portable cribby thing they have here, and my Anna Joy is in our room in her daddy's arms (where she is usually!!LOL!).............my friend is afraid I may hand over the wrong baby, that I might hand over my baby to someone !!LOL!! I THINK NOT!
My living room/dining room.......where we are most of the time........currently has a walker, 3 strollers, one portable cribby thing and a Taiwan style bouncy/cribby thing ( I seriously don't know what they are called). We are having to rearrange the furniture not to mention our schedule.
On Monday, our Baby J will go back to nanny and we'll get baby C for awhile................ .ahhhhh....... the joys?? I guess we could say that............

If we had a home for them to stay at with a nanny...... would there be more? who knows......sometimes the idea of doing this work scares me at what it can be and how God can grow things overnight.

Pray for a national coworker who would be willing to stay at a house.............. Momma J stayed here for a few weeks, but it was a bit rough on our family. She was easy to get along with, but obvious she is "mom" to her own mom.......... that happens in alcoholic families alot, the kids have to bear more responsibility than they should. BUT if we had a worker, single or widowed, who would be willing to stay at a house and help, that would be awesome!!! and so helpful.......... so pray for that............. God will do great things..................are you praying for that?

We have been busy....

Not ignoring you all!!!
October 8th, we needed to go get a 7month old who is in the process of being adopted. He was here not more than a week and started getting sicker than when we had picked him up (he was really congested on the 8th). The nanny called a 2am to take him to the ER and he was admitted right away with acute pneumonia. We PRAISE THE LORD that after a week in the hospital, he is now better than when we brought him home. God is doing great things!! Please keep praying for him and the adoption to go through.

October 30th, Momma J had her baby boy. She has had it rough. Her own mom was drunk that AM, but sober enough to come to the hospital later for the surgery. Momma J needed to have a c/section. She is resting and doing well.

All of this has given us a foot in the door with social services. The hospital social worker knows us well now:-)......and she might be referring a case to us for abortion counsel, or not to abort. The social worker was asking lots of questions about our work or beginnings of work with unwed moms and she says there is a big need for a home. God is opening doors. Please do pray that the social worker can convince this needy mom to at least just talk with us about her choices and not to abort.

Please do consider supporting our ministry. God is working in Taitung Taiwan!!!

Congrats are in order..

This gorgeous hunk just celebrated his first year of being with his forever family!!

And this beautiful princess after waiting way too long, the family finally got the final decree!!! they changed household registery and all...............they live here so it was a tad different, but still SHE IS THEIRS!!

Just an encouragement to say YES IT CAN HAPPEN AND WILL!!!! Congrats to the forever familes who are celebrating.........praying we can add more soon!!

Hi again

Baby A....... keep praying his adoption goes smoothly.......we are probably a little over half way

Again, it has been awhile. I have been so busy and recently under the weather. I have had some headaches, either due to stress or due to the weather.

This was on my desk the other day......not my idea of an assistant! Though if he can translate and type well.....maybe!!LOL!

Let's see:
***Momma J's funds are just about there. We were given funds from a wonderful artist who is raising money for us. We haven't put that in our little badgy thing there. Momma J is due with a baby boy Nov. 15, but will need a c/section. She will probably have baby first week of November. She just turned 20yr old, so she can legally sign papers herself.
***After some interesting situations, H family's baby was moved closer to us. He is doing well. You can check out Sarah and David's blog to the left. Baby Josiah is a great baby (great in disposition and size!!LOL!)
***We are still asking you for prayers in another families situation. USA immigration rules for orphans are, well, annoying to say the least. This family has a sibling group they are wanting to adopt, the parents want them to adopt, but because there are two parents, though legally divorced, they can't. Please pray we can get some gov't officials in our area to have a soft heart.
*** We are still working on registering. Some things have slowed us down, but our fire is still burning. It breaks my heart to get phone calls from gov't social workers saying "are you all registered yet? we have a kid"...........AHHHHHHHH!!! there is NO rule that gov't social services cannot go through private independent adoptions, none at all, just something they prefer to stay away from. So please pray we get things moving.
*** Please pray for us as we minsiter to those who are in great need. As I talked with one mom who just gave her baby, she just wants to talk. She came to see her baby, who is a month old and in care and ready for adoption. It was hard to see her struggle when he started crying. I was trying to imagine what she is going through, and well, I can't understand. I know when the thought of my baby being in someone else's arms goes through my mind, my heart aches. This mom, she showed some emotion, but not a tear when she was visiting or when she left. We met at our church, a neutral point. She said tht now that she is looking for a job, she won't be thinking so much of baby. But I wonder...............how emotionally hard she was towards this from the beginning? If her neighbors asked if she was pregnant, thus the belly..........No,just gained alot of weight. She was made to keep it a secret, made to stay home except for dr's visits. If baby came home, she'd have to move out...............so, how emotionally detached was she? I have just been wondering this. But she definetly needs prayers. At least she knows she can trust us. God is planting seeds!!
Keep praying.

Sure has been awhile....

I don't even know where to begin. Though Momma J is now at our house. She came this past Wed. She is fitting in fine. We have been to the dr once so far. She is severly anemic so we are working on that issue. Today, while the rest of the crowd was out of the house we just chatted. Learned alot about her. She comes from a poor poor family. She has been getting onto my kids about wasting food or taking too much food. Her family doesn't have regular meals and so she is eating well here:-)........

I do ask for prayer, there are just some issues I can't get into, but do ask for prayers and our current cases. I know that God has brought this all to us, God has a reason for everything, but sometimes, it is hard to see it. There is so much we'd like to do and we want to make a decision according to God's will, not an emotional one.

We were asked this weekend if we'd take another 8th grade boy. We haven't decided what to do. We have felt called to work with teens and also unwed mothers. We feel led to do this. We know God will provide. Luke and I are praying about all this. It is quite a jump..............everyone thinks we are crazy....... maybe we are?LOL!!

Well, I hope to post more often. It has just been a whirlwind around here. Please keep our adopt a mom in your prayers. We have $300US more to go for our goal!!

Well, we had another contact. Though, since I am extremely busy with 3 right now, dh is away and honestly, I just couldn't deal with things, I called a pastor and his wife. See, I "found" this contact on the internet. An unwed mom, with a 4-5 month old baby. My heart was hurting for this mom and child. The pastor and his wife are American Chinese who pastor a church here. They recently started the adoption process of a cute little baby girl born in June. Well, they have friends who have been wanting to adopt a baby boy. They contacted the mom and will meet with her on Tuesday. I really feel God worked that out.

There are times when this work gets really exhausting. Caretakers are needed......what do we do? not just anyone, but one who feels that taking care of infants in the process is a service that is well needed. We need a building, land would be even better, but a building of some kind. I'd love to have the $500,000US+ to buy two houses and renovate to make it into a small family size children's home. But God hasn't planned that yet I guess.

We are working ahead on what God has planned for us. I wish we could just pick these kids up and send them to their forever families right away. I wish they didn't have to wait in care of a temporary mommy for 3-6months. I wish gov't would cooperate.

I was reading on a blog that Stephen Curtis Chapman made a statement that if 7%of the Christians adopted one child, that the children needing forever families crisis would be over. WOW!!! How are you helping?

where do I start...

Well, my beloved has been gone for over a week now...........he is in China ministering in case some of you readers don't know. I am so ready for him to get back, but we are all getting along great on a schedule of how mom wants things!!

Anyway, please do pray for our work here with unwed moms and adoptions. AIT (American Institute of Taiwan) is trying to pull the "I am the gov't I know more than you" trick.......when in reality..........they are trying to just save themselves and extra work. I understand Chinese just fine people!!! If they had told me back when that we couldn't do what we are now doing, then we would have not proceeded this way. But you know what, the man specifically said "privates are ok, they just take longer." I talked to a lawyer today as well, there are somethings that he just made me feel better saying. So, we are going on. God has brought this to us, things come up to learn from right? The main issue they are saying we are not of orphanage status. An orphanage status makes things a whole lot easier, but not necessary.

Well, please pray for the following:
H1 family: AIT is causing issues for them, technically there is no reason their case doesn't fall under an orphan, but again AIT is struttin' their stuff.

H2 family: they need a foster family here fast please pray for their family

R1 family: we have probably 85% of the stuff done, haven't registered yet, but trying to get things done and well, again AIT is causing stress..............

Momma J has not come yet. I am not sure why, though they know that dh is away, so that might be part of it.

Pray for wisdome for us as we continue to do what God wants us to do for the sake of the little ones.

we got the air conditioner!!

Well, dh and I went to pick one out. They were a little cheaper as our main hot season is over now, so we got one. They are coming to install it on Tuesday or Wednesday. Mom J is not coming til the 15th or so, so this is all working out perfectly!!!
PRAISE THE LORD!!!! Thank you all so much for your help with the a/c fund.............it is amazing how much you all have helped. I'll get pix for you all as evidence!!LOL!

OH, Momma A had her baby tonight. The dr (a friend) asked (sorta told really) me to be in the room. It was a different angle for me!!LOL!! usually it is me laying on the table, not standing there saying "you can do it" "good job"..............it was a happy yet sad time for me..........happy that this little life came into the world screaming, that a family will have a new little one someday to love...........yet sad to see this young unmarried mom have no one else support her. Her family didn't even know she was at the clinic to deliver. Granted, her family is kind of "you made the problem, you fix it." But she had no one there when she needed them. Her mom was to be coming over later, but still.........................Sad to see how things went................sad to know that she is giving up her baby.....................but she loves him enough to give him up..........this one loved baby!!!

where to begin!

Life has been quite hectic. I really need to get into a schedule of sorts especially since we home school.
YEAH!!!! I took a case in to register for court date today. I am so relieved. Please keep that case in your prayers!!

One of our former foster daughters has moved back for a year and will be helping out some. We can see in many ways the problems she faced and moving back here at this particular time is all in God's timing. The boys are enjoying having P back.

We have Mom A at the clinic for an induction today (readers don't get antsy please). She should have baby boy tonight sometime. Her family seems non supportive and won't be at the hospital with her. I took her in today and was with her while they set stuff up and all and will go back later today. I am thankful that she was fine with me praying for her and the baby during this time. I sat by her bed thanking God for this new life and that all will be healthy. Please pray as we use this as a witness time to her.

Mom J (thank you all for the $150 so far.......any others:-) )....will be coming Sep. 15th probably. The 14th is Moon Festival and a time for families to be together. Her mom decided to wait til after this holiday to bring her here. That is fine, though Luke will be in China then.......actually just starting his 2 week ministry trip!!AHHH!!
We are in need of maternity clothes. I know shipping is expensive, but if you have some or know of some, please contact me. We hopefully will have a family or two coming before February for adoptions and maybe they can bring some stuff.

I met with an organization that works with abused women and unwed mothers. Mom J was their original case, but since she wanted to stay in Taitung, they kinda just let her do her own thing. The organization came to us and asked about her, what we can do for her, etc. They seemed ok with it all. We are a family style ministry, not......here's a bed.......but here's a home away from home.

We have decided that our unwed mother's ministry will currently stay private, as in nonregistered. It is our adoption ministry that will be registered. We are praying for a house to rent or allow us to use........the latter would be best!!........but again, resources...........that is so difficult................I'd like to do a walk a thon, or Christmas sale or something here for funds for a home and the ministry there..................but then again, we need helpers.............we know God is in control. Please do keep praying.

We need your help!!

We got the call.........Mom J, the 19yr old is coming to stay with us. Honestly, I am a tad nervous about this, but we know that God has worked this out.
Ok, so, we need someone to "adopt" Mom J................any takers? we have paypal if you don't need a receipt, or I can get you information on how to get the support to us. She is 5.5months pregnant and her mom is tired of hearing all the gossip in the village. Sad I know, but we are praising God that HE opened all this up for us. We made it known that she will be required to go to church services.....not an issue! We will be using her as a guinea pig for our program!!LOL!!
Seriously, need your prayers and support on this one. Please pass it around. We need at least $500US to support her so that is does not cause a burden on us or on her family. Her mom is the only one working, no dad in the picture, and her two younger brothers are still in school..............her 18yr old sister is already married!............

Please do pray about helping us!!