"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!

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Please help Quinton come home!!!

****UPDATE**** They only have $4,500 left to raise!!!!
God is good!

Look at this sweet baby face! I am so burdened for this family.  I have told the story before of how his mommy-to-be came to find him.  Her name is Carol and she is my daughter's special education teacher.  She has a heart of gold and is a beautiful soul who I am so lucky to know. :)  We just met back in August 2010 when school started.  My daughter started middle school this year and this was Carol's first year teaching.  Sometime after school started I told Carol about our adoption of Anna and I gave her our blog website so that she could follow our story.  Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that she would find her way to Reece's Rainbow and find a child of her own! She and her husband Brian do not have any children yet and fell in love with cute little Quinton. In Quinton's country babies and children are abandoned at orphanages and are kept there until they turn four years old.  Once a child with a disability turns four they are transferred to mental institutions where they will live out the rest of their life, which may not be very long. Sometimes children with Down syndrome do not live one year after they are transferred to these mental institutions because of trauma, neglect and malnutrition.  So little Quinton is living on borrowed time and the Miller family is desperate to raise the needed funds in order to rescue their baby boy. They have held fundraisers and have raised most of the money but they leave in 8 days and aren’t fully funded yet.  They are holding a fundraiser right now with some wonderful prizes in hopes of raising the last $6,500 they need in order to travel.  Please stop by their blog and read their story and check out their fundraiser.  Any donations, no matter the size are deeply appreciated.  Please help save this little life if you can whether it be by prayers, donations or sharing their story.  Thank you and God bless you!

Here is a link to their blog : A match made in Heaven
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

We are almost there!

We leave in three days to head to Anna's country for our court appointment! Please keep our family in your prayers for safe travel, protection for us and our children and also for our court appearance! Please join in prayer that the judge will see the love that we already have for Anna and that he will grant us the permission to make her our daughter!

So many of you have donated, held fundraisers, prayed and shared our story.  We thank each of you for everything that you have done. I am so excited to say that we are ALMOST there!  We only have $722 left to raise to be fully funded to adopt our little girl!  You all have played a part in giving this sweet little girl a family.  How awesome is that? God is so good and I thank him for moving the hearts of each of you who have prayed for us and donated to help us make this dream become reality! May God richly bless each of you!
Love,
the Williams family
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Happy 6th birthday Anna

Our sweet little Anna had to go through yet another birthday without her family.  She turned 6 years old today.  I thought about her all day long.  What was she doing? Did anyone even acknowledge that it was her birthday today?  We thought for sure she would be home by now with us, her forever family, celebrating her birthday.  I do have faith in knowing that this will be the last birthday that she will celebrate in a mental institution, all alone. Hang on sweet girl, we are coming for you as fast as we can and you will have the biggest birthday party you can imagine.  We leave in 13 days headed to her country for our second visit.  Hopefully we will have court and she will be declared forever ours.  I am dreaming of the day we carry her out of that place and begin our new lives together.



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Thursday, May 19, 2011

God is good......

Philippians 4:6-7 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

We were given a $1,000 donation tonight that was totally unexpected...which most of them have been, LOL. I'm still praising God and thanking him daily, several times a day, for providing the finances for Anna's adoption. I imagine I will do this for the rest of my life ;)  I do not or have not lost sleep worrying about how or where the money would come from. I have had peace about it for a long time.  I am not worried and will not worry, for he has not carried us this far to leave us. God is good.

For those of you who are adopting and are still praying for a miracle, keep at it.  Tell God what you need and start thanking him for it....even before it comes.  Expect a miracle.....
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We're leaving........

We have a court date!  I can't believe it...it's finally here! We go back to our girls country in about 3 weeks and go before a judge to be approved to adopt sweet Anna.  After court we will return home and have to wait 10 business days to go back and get her!  Please pray for our safety and for our children to be safe while we are away. They will be taken care of by family members but it is not easy to leave your children and be so far away from them. In fact....it's really, really hard. But little Anna needs us too and we just have to keep our eyes on the prize...yes she is definitely a prize and we can't wait to see her again and bring her home soon to join our family.

Would you also please pray that the rest of our financials are taken care of?  We still need to raise about $2,000 to meet our goal and make our last trip to bring our daughter home :) 
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