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December 9, 2009

Last minute Christmas ideas. . .

Do you still have some last minutes gifts you need to purchase? Consider giving a gift that will help give a child a family! We are currently selling fair trade coffee and t-shirts to raise funds for our next adoption. You can click on the links to the right and you will [...]

December 3, 2009

Stop back by soon!

The Taylor family Christmas letter will be posted on Saturday!!!

November 17, 2009

What Orphans Need

I loved reading this post from Together for Adoption this morning. . .
What Orphans Need
When Christians are unsure of their Father’s delight in them, real Christian joy is absent and passionate Christian living is lacking. It is almost impossible (if not entirely impossible) to mobilize Christians who doubt that they are objects of God’s affection [...]

November 9, 2009

Time to get real. . .

Today I missed him.  Worship was phenomenal with prophecy and a spontaneous song.  The preaching of the word convicted me of an area of sin and gave me hope for change.  I was reminded of God’s faithfulness as the service closed with the baptism of 6 believers.  And then walking out to my car, children [...]

November 9, 2009

Orphan Sunday

This video is well worth the minute it takes to watch.
Orphan Sunday from Christian Alliance for Orphans on Vimeo.

November 4, 2009

Round Two

We have some really exciting news to share. . . We are preparing to adopt again!  While we must wait until January (1 year home with our kiddos) to officially begin again with our agency we are starting to fund raise now.  We have an excellent opportunity for you to get some Christmas shopping done [...]

September 11, 2009

Lifesong For Orphans

What a blessing!  Our family was featured on the reflections blog over at Lifesong for Orphans today.  You can visit the site here: http://lifesong.squarespace.com/
  Lifesong is an incredible ministry which provides matching grants to families in the process of adopting.  It was Lifesong’s generous grant and the donations of those that matched it that provided [...]

September 11, 2009

How I spent my time this afternoon

Sorry you have to click on the link because I can’t get the video to upload here. 
http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/3T4JObgVp7151qla

July 17, 2009

Foster Care Adoptions

While there is much to share and numerous funny anedotes to tell of our families recent activities, I needed to post this today: (Found this at www.adoptsc.com)
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There are 130,000 children in the U.S. foster care system eligible and waiting to be adopted (an additional 470,000 in need of temporary foster homes). Children are removed from [...]

March 26, 2009

New Friends

We had such a great time at play group this morning, and its fun to watch F and T actually playing and using English with other kiddos.  Here’s Fikadu with his new buddy Isaiah wearing matching backwards Baseball caps!  Watch out world!