The BIG "4-0"

Yup! That's right... I am officially one month away from my 40th Birthday!!! WOW I'm getting old! So starting today until my Birthday on November 16th, I am officially giving up my birthday and all that goes along with a typical birthday for little Mr. Dimples:)

I am Saul's Christmas Warrior

And I want to see his Adoption Grant Grow!!!

So, for my 40th Birthday I am asking that each of you make a donation to his Grant.

Just click on Saul's CHIP-IN and your donation will go directly to

Reece's Rainbow as a tax deductible donation. For those who DONATE $35 or more you will receive a Christmas Ornament with Saul's precious face to hang on your Christmas Tree!

Thank You for helping me celebrate the blessing of 40 years,
and please pray that Saul's Forever Family will find him soon.

Will They Come??? Wednesday

Meet Sammy

What a cutie!! Sammy has Apert Syndrome and has just turned 3yrs old. He would transition well into a family. Are you his family????

CLICK HERE to find out more about Sammy

One Year & God's HOPE

Today as I walked off the airplane returning from Haiti, I see smiling faces waiting patiently to hug my neck & I realized that One Year Ago today I was getting off the plane with Charlie & Levi. What a wonderful day that was! One Year? Wow! Oh, how time flies & i am amazed at how much we have been blessed with over that year. As we celebrate the Year Anniversary of the boys being home, God continues to reveal so much to us and teach us so much every day. My 8 days in Haiti was amazing, filled with sweet moments of seeing God's redemption, and sad moments of seeing those who God loves deeply abandoned, neglected, starved, searching for something. My prayer for Haiti and the precious people that live their is that God will fill them with Hope. That they will see that God is their healer, their protector, their Hope in this earthly world. I pray that God will continue to break my heart for what breaks his, to spur my passion for the orphan, the widow, and for justice in a world where millions are suffering.

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Baylie spent the weekend at Extreme Leader camp for the 6th graders. It was so refreshing to hear her stories and hear how much she learned about how God can use her to make a difference in the lives of others. I am so proud of her for being such an encourager to her friends and helping them to see that they can do things that are out of their comfort zone or scary. I am so grateful to my heavenly Father who has touch her heart & is growing her everyday.

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And..the hubby did an amazing job managing the circus while I was gone:) I am SO blessed to have such an amazing godly man that encourages me, loves me, and listens to every crazy thing I know hope God is leading us to. I Love you more than words can express & I can not wait to see where God leads us next!

Haiti In Pictures
Coming soon:)

Will They Come??? Wednesday

Are you My Mommy & Daddy???

Please Pray for Jonas:)

He looks healthy & SO sweet!

Now all he needs is LOVE!

And.... He has $3800 in his Adoption Grant!!!

CLICK HERE for more Info

Abundance

Today I am trying to gather my thoughts as they bounce from finding homes for orphans, preparing for Haiti, racing to Dr. appointments, bible studies, feeding programs, orphans, laundry, what I am gonna fix for supper, soccer, gymnastics, baseball, dance, homework, malaria, formula for starving infants, how to dig deeper into God's word, HIV, speech, physical therapy, yellow fever shots, Down Syndrome, grocery shopping, passports, adoption, budgeting, fundraising, exercising(ha!), indestructible glasses, leading and shaping my children, schedules, chore charts, Reece's Rainbow, volunteering, Visiting Orphans, church, homeschooling(what?!?) and when I will have 5 minutes of uninterrupted conversation with the love of my life. (and that's just what went through my brain in the last 5 minutes!!!)

God continues to move us into a time of Abundance...

Abundance: an extremely plentiful or oversufficient quantity or supply; overflowing fullness

We are all healthy, loved and provided for. Our life is full of people who love and support us in every crazy adventure God leads us on. He helps us daily to provide in every way so that I can be home. He has provided so that I can spend 8 days in Haiti and know that my hubby & kiddos are taken care of. He has put people in our path that have mentored, prayed, and equipped us to continue on the journey God has us on. All of this is so amazing! Last week we talked about the multiple times God has DONE this or DONE that. How we doubted, how we were discouraged and THEN... How God took us and molded us, shaped us and taught us through that experience. And maybe even Rocked our world a little bit:) Oh, how I pray that I will not doubt my Father, the one who comforts me, encourages me, and never leaves me. So, let me just share how God rocked our world..AGAIN! Through all of our doubting; we have seen God raise 30K in 8 months to bring our boys home, we have seen him provide an amazing home for us, we have seen people bless us with an extreme makeover of our new home, we have seen God bring together a group of employees to join us where God is working, we have seen God provide for our kids back to school needs, we have seen God provide 4 months of tuition so that Charlie & Levi can remain at the The Bynum School, and then came an opportunity to take our oldest 3 girls on a mission trip. Ah, my hearts desire. It sounded like a totally cool opportunity, something we had always talked about but never really thought it could happen. But remember God's got this! So we pray about it, and without question we felt God telling us to GO! The thought of raising the money was a wee bit overwhelming (there came that doubt again), but we knew it was God. We notified Visiting Orphans that there would be 5 of us going and then started thinking of every fundraiser we could possibly have over the next 6 weeks and THEN.....in less than 12 hours; yes I said 12 hours we had someone say, "Well, How 'bout I just pay for the whole trip? God wants me to do that".... What? Are you Serious, No Stinkin' Way, Tears, Holy Cow!!!! I seriously almost passed out! and... I am crying again as I type this. lol You can not put boundaries on what God can and WILL do.
        I remember when I was a little girl sitting at my grandad's house flipping through a National Geographic magazine that was filled with pictures of Ethiopia. The peoples faces, the reality of the life they lived. I knew even at a young age that we had an Abundance compared to them, and that SOMEBODY should do something about it. Now I know God was planting a seed:) I can no longer sit back and pretend that it is somebody else's problem.

If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered 

~Proverbs 21:13

A paraphrase from Matthew 25 by Richard Stearns: 
For I was hungry, while you had all you needed. I was thirsty, but you drank bottled water. I was a stranger, and you wanted me deported. I needed clothes, but you needed more clothes. I was sick, and you pointe out the behaviors that led to my sickness. I was in prison, and you said I was getting what I deserved. 

 

We will be traveling Dec. 27th-Jan 7th to 5 orphanages in Ethiopia & Rwanda
Please Pray for us as we prepare to love on orphans and share the Love of Christ with them.


We have a Garage Sale Fundraiser planned in October
This will be to raise the $600 needed for our yellow fever shots
&
for supplies that we will be taking to these orphanages


If you have items that you would like to DONATE to our sale please contact me:
wah3@hotmail.com 
We can pick up if needed:)

Will They Come??? Wednesday

HOLY COW!!!! I would scoop this one up in heartbeat if Haiti would let us:)

Calvin is HIV+ but is really doing well developmentaly

Could this be your son, could you handle waking up to that big 'ol smile everyday:)

To Read more about Calvin

CLICK HERE

Calvin:)

"Once our eyes are opened, we can't pretend we don't know what to do. God, who weighs our hearts and keeps our souls, knows that we know, and holds us responsible to act"

~Proverbs 24:12

One Year Ago TODAY....

Our family was grown through the blessing of adoption....

Charlie Josiah Harper 

&

Levi Preston Harper

became part of their "Forever Family"
Like the birth of our other children,

That is a day we will never forget...

CHARLIE

 LEVI

ONE YEAR LATER:)

Is there ever the "perfect" time to take a risk? Probably not. 

But there's a perfect God in whom we can risk, imperfectly.

Thank You God for opening our hearts to the orphans & for guiding us through this amazing journey!

"Once our eyes are opened, we can't pretend we don't know what to do. God, who weighs our hearts and keeps our souls, knows that we know, and holds us responsible to act" 

~Proverbs 24:12