This video is one off a disc I got in the mail last week from Anna Mattingly who worked at Amani in 2007 and again this past December. I love to hear Bobby's voice.
This month is Orphan Awareness month and our church published a booklet with pictures and stories from members who have adopted a child or are in the process of adopting. I loved all the stories and was so involved in reading them all, I was aggravated when I had to get up to sing!!
Saturday we go to the Show Hope Foundation dinnner. Show Hope is Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman's organization which helps people who are adopting. We went last year and sat with our friends the Moore's. I was so impressed and inspired by Mary Beth's words about her continued trust in the control and goodness of God even during the horrible circumstances of her young daughter's death. Buddy and I made a small donation, never, ever, even dreaming that a year later we would be in the process of an international adoption. If you had told either of us that this is where we would be this year, I'm positive we would have laughed and then talked about how crazy you were on the way home. And yet...look where we are! God has such compassion for orphans that He will move through His people to meet the need so that they are taken care of... so...this time next year, it may be you.
This month is Orphan Awareness month and our church published a booklet with pictures and stories from members who have adopted a child or are in the process of adopting. I loved all the stories and was so involved in reading them all, I was aggravated when I had to get up to sing!!
Saturday we go to the Show Hope Foundation dinnner. Show Hope is Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman's organization which helps people who are adopting. We went last year and sat with our friends the Moore's. I was so impressed and inspired by Mary Beth's words about her continued trust in the control and goodness of God even during the horrible circumstances of her young daughter's death. Buddy and I made a small donation, never, ever, even dreaming that a year later we would be in the process of an international adoption. If you had told either of us that this is where we would be this year, I'm positive we would have laughed and then talked about how crazy you were on the way home. And yet...look where we are! God has such compassion for orphans that He will move through His people to meet the need so that they are taken care of... so...this time next year, it may be you.
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