"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!

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Headed home!

We went for our appointment at the embassy today, and despite the issues we had with some paperwork we passed! I was expecting an interview in an office with someone asking me difficult questions but it was nothing to it at all! I stood at the window and raised my right hand and told them that everything was true and accurate and that was basically it. Way too easy, but after all that we have been through, maybe God was having mercy on me today! The lady came out of the office and spoke with about four families who were there to adopt and told us what to expect with traveling home and more about our embassy paperwork. After that they gave each of us our child's visa and we were on our merry way! Tomorrow our facilitator will pick up our registration to the consulate and then Saturday we are outta here! We will be 1 day shy of being gone 4 whole weeks! Yikes what a crazy time we have had here. Once we are home I will share more about our crazy and terrifying experience we had the first week here! Thanks for all of your prayers and well wishes!
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3 comments:

Sha said...

I am so over joyed for you and your entire family! To finally be able to all be together after such a long journey! CONGRATULATIONS and I hope your flight home goes smoothly! I can not wait to see photos of your entire family together!

July 28, 2011 at 4:32 PM
The Annessa Family said...

Wahoooo! SO excited!

Brooke
www.TheAnnessaFamily.blogspot.com

July 28, 2011 at 8:36 PM
Heather said...

I'm reading this Monday, so that means you are HOME!!! Can't WAIT to see your homecoming pictures. Hang in there through the first week. It took me a whole week to get over the jet lag and feel like I could function!

August 1, 2011 at 11:35 AM

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