"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."

"Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, "Give them up!" and to the south, "Do not hold them back." Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth" Isaiah 43:5-6

"Remember those…who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering." (Hebrews 13:3)

"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves…defend the rights of the needy." (Proverbs 31:8,9)


"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'" Matthew 25:40
This is our journal to rescue an orphan with Down syndrome who lives in an orphanage in Eastern Europe. Anna was left at the hospital by her parents, who refused to take her home because she was born with Down syndrome. In Anna's country people with disabilities are looked down upon and are typically hidden away in orphanages from birth and their outlook for life is not very good. Once the orphan turns 4-6 depending on the region they live in, they are then transferred from the orphanage to mental institutions or insane asylums. Our family desperately wants to make Anna our daughter before she is transferred as she is already 5 years old. We will love her and give her the family that she deserves and give her a future full of hope, despite her disability. When our family stepped out in faith and committed to adopt Anna we didn't have the money that it would take to get her here. God has worked miracles in so many aspects of our adoption. The biggest miracle is that I have had faith all alone that God would send the money we needed to adopt Anna. Through many answered prayers, God made sure we had every penny we needed to make her our daughter!

Please watch this video and see what God says about orphans and the starving children!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Please help us rescue Anna!

I am happy to say that we are having another fundraiser with a chance to win a great prize!  We are getting closer and closer with our paper work to go and get our girl, but we have not raised enough $$ to hop on that plane to go and get her.  We need to raise at least $24,000.  Actually I am estimating that everything is going to be over $30,000 after we did another estimation of fees from Anna's country.

Could you please consider helping us?  Perhaps you can't make a donation, will you please pray that we meet the needed amount to go and rescue her from a life in an institution?  Maybe you could give up your Starbucks treat for a week, or maybe you could donate more to help save an orphan?  Orphans in EE are transferred to an "insane asylum" between the ages of 4-6.  Our Anna is already 5 and we are praying that we can get to her before she is transferred to that awful place. 

For anyone who makes a donation to help bring Anna home, you will receive one of the pink awareness bracelets you see above that reads "Saving Anna".  When the fundraiser is over we will put your name in for our drawing of one great prize!  We will be giving away one 16 gb iPad with wi-fi.





 If our donations reach $10,000 or more (from today until fundraiser ends) we will UPGRADE the prize to give away one Apple MacBook pro!!!


Should we have a miracle and reach$20,000 we will give away TWO Macbooks!!!  Help us spread the word so that we can hopefully reach our goal and give away two great prizes!
Either of these would make an awesome Christmas present for someone! Please share our link and tell your family and friends, co-workers, etc. about our fundraiser and help little Anna's funds reach our goal to go and rescue our Princess!  You can make a donation by clicking on the "chipin" box to the right or you can make a tax deductible donation by clicking here on Anna's picture.





Thank you and God bless.

p.s. for those of you have donated to the chip from September you are included in our giveaway as well.

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Just Another Day In Paradise said...

We're doing a donation giveaway on our blog... come check it out...

October 19, 2010 at 3:49 PM

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