My baby is going on her first mission trip!

My oldest daughter, Riley, is 16. She is leaving at 10 a.m. for Dallas, TX. She will spend 4 days there and then her group is off for a mission trip to Alaska! She is going with a great group from our old church. Along with this group are 2 awesome adults! And the trip is part of the ministry/missions of Global Expeditions. So she is in good hands.

I am so proud of her! She has a wonderful heart for God and is not afraid to share it. Please pray with me that the Lord is able to work through her and that while she is ministering to others, the Lord can use this trip to also strengthen her faith and love in and for Him!

I had never even thought about participating in a mission trip at 16! She is a such a neat girl, and I know the Lord has blessed her with so many special gifts. I am so overjoyed that she is using these gifts to help others find the Lord! What more can a parent ask for???\

*Riley is the one on the left. I am on the wrong computer. All our pics are on the laptop, but I did find this one from this past winter. Her friend is Mollie and she is going on the trip too!

He looks like the sweetest little boy!

I just want to hold him and help him to smile!

Here is his limited info:

Boy, Born December 29, 2001

Main diagnosis: Spina Bifida Aperta; Hydrocephalus interna; Paraplegic. Good physical and mental development.

For more information, visit this link: http://www.reecesrainbow.org/angelolderchild.htm

It's impossible!.... NOT!

God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible. What a pity we plan only the things we can do by ourselves. --- A.W. Tozer

Well, God found me. Here I am. Adopting 2 special needs girls from a foreign country. Adding 2 more to our 7 children. Living dollar by dollar. Making a living in an industry that is at best uncertain and pretty much guarantees that we will stay cash poor. Having a 3 year old that is a handful with no off button. Having a 14 year old that is having a good day if he is only mildly angry. Having a husband who fluctuates between "Sure lets do this" and "Are we [specifically me] out of our minds!?" Having some debt, no savings, and needing a large amount of money to see this adoption through. Having to reconfigure a bedroom situations without much room to speak of or closet space! And not having alot of extended family excitement with our decision.

And you know what the best part is???? I am EXCITED! THRILLED! JAZZED! OVERJOYED! HAPPY! And can not wait to see what God has planned in order for me to bring my daughters home! See, to me, it does seem impossible for me/us to do this! And yet, I have no doubt tonight [though occassionally it catches me :)] that they will come home!

God continues to confirm my decision and my heart about Yana and Shawnee. He has sent me a multitude of friends [my personal multitude of angels!] who I have never even "officially met", who have strengthened me in untold ways with their stories, their faith, their kind words, and their wisdom! Thank you dear friends!

He has let the love I feel for these 2 little girls be birthed in my heart with a passion to see this journey through, and to love them as they are today, tomorrow, and years from now! Oh how I think of them throughout my day. Every time I see something they might like, or something they might need, or get a quiet moment and think I wish I could be holding them now... my heart bursts with love for them. I would not have believed it could be this way... and yet... God knew. God knows. God has plans for me, my husband, my children, my new girls... plans to give us a hope and a future.

Thank you glorious Father! I am Yours! I love You!

Don't let him become one of the forgotten!

Do you know someone interested in adopting? Or better yet, ever consider adopting a child yourself? Now, maybe you haven't ever thought of adoption as something you would ever do... why not? Why not you? Don't listen to the world telling you that you are too old, its to expensive, its to invasive, it just isnt' done, its crazy, it wouldn't work etc...

Now, I don't pretend to know or understand your reasons why adoption is not for you or not for you at this time in your life. But I know there is someone out there who is feeling the pull, and I say to that person "None of the reasons for saying "no" are bigger than what God can overcome!!!" So if HE is speaking to your heart... LISTEN! If HE is calling on you to reach out and change the world of this child "LISTEN"!


Meet Kirill! Can you not see the love of the FATHER in his eyes?! What can inquiring to Andrea for more info. hurt? bamaroberts@comcast.net



Here is Kirills info:
Kiril # 3 (1)

Boy, Born January 20, 2004

SIGNIFICANT RISK, PLEASE ADOPT ME SOON!!

This spunky little angel is ready to melt your heart! Kiril has blonde hair and hazel eyes, and a smile that can light up a room! He was born with cerebral palsy.

One of our own adoptive families who visited with him in March 2008 said this about Kiril: " I�m a sucker for blondies and this little guy with his green-brown eyes is adorable! He smiled and wanted to interact with me when I came into the room despite the cries of his neighbor. His smiles were brief but heartwarming and then he was curious about what I was up to. Each time the camera flashed he rewarded it with a great grin! Except it was always right AFTER the flash so I couldn�t capture his sweet smile."

These new pictures are from July 2009, when another of our adoptive families visited with him. Kiril is still not able to sit up on his own, and not able to walk. He is very much still a baby, but he is already 5 1/2.

UPDATE: Kirill has been sent to the institution now, as pictured above. He will remain bedridden for life if he is not adopted. PLEASE save Kirill from this fate!! He needs a committed family RIGHT NOW. With therapy and a loving family and some mobility tools, he will be a very functional and much loved member of anyone's family!

Please contact Andrea directly for more information


I have $1445 in my grant fund towards the cost of my adoption!

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More on the Heart of God and my heart for Him...

147+ million orphans world wide! How does one person make a difference?

One heart, one child at a time! And the really neat thing is that God loves that one child more than everyone in the world ever could. That one child is special, magnificent, and fearfully and wonderfully made!!! God knit them together in the womb, and God has not, nor will He ever forget about them!

Consider how much your heart breaks for each individual child, and then realize just how much more so the heart of God breaks! He will not leave them as orphans, HE will come for them. HE HEARS THEIR CRIES, AND THEIR SILENCE!

God is moving GREATLY on behalf of the forgotten of this world! We want it done and taken care of yesterday, God has a bigger plan! Salvation, eternity, GLORY... are at stake! It will take a warriors heart to continue the fight! It will take a passionate, faithful, and brave soul to follow God as he leads us to where the treasures, at the end of this journey, are greater than any eyes have seen, any ears have heard, any mind can imagine!

We can not be silent! I will not be silent! I wear a button with my girls picture on it just so people will ask me what it is all about. And I tell them, its about love, its about 2 special little girls, its about forgotten children, and family, and mostly its about God!!!! Be the voice of the child that has long ago realized no one will answer their cry... and start a ripple that will carry across the oceans!

One at a time! I thank God everyday that He opened my eyes, and that I am a part of this great movement on behalf of children, HIS children! I look at all those precious faces of abandoned children and I hear the Father calling! I see the love He freely gives! I get energized with HOPE and JOY in my Heavenly Father! :)

So while my heart breaks with each child calling out for a family, so does it rejoice! I rejoice because God hears, God listens, God loves, God cares, and most especially God MOVES on behalf of the orphan! God will not forget the forgotten, and God will make it right! In this life of the next.

Children matter to God! EACH individual child matters to God! Oh that they would know the love their Father has for them!

Each person is created for a specific purpose.

Eph. 2:10... "For we are His workmanship. Created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which He prepared in advance for us to do."

God chose to bless me with a love of children that carries beyond enjoyment. He granted me with a voice so that I may be their voice. He granted me with a mothers heart that has no desire to move on to other things.

God grant me clarity and courage that I may speak for those that have no voice. Grant me time I do not have, grant me energy I can not find, grant me money that is not there, grant me ideas I have not formed, grant me a heart full of passion to do what many say can not be done. Do not let me waste my life. I am a mother Lord, gather my children.... Amen.

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Is it possible?

Is it realistic to expect / ask God to help us raise / find $16,000 to bring our babies home from Eastern Europe?

We can borrow the money, but we pray not to have to do this, as we would rather have that money to spend on their health right away and the other needs of our children.

I heard that Rick Warren started his church on a credit card. I know missionaries rely on donations from their congregations. Is it right for me to feel a peace that God WILL provide this money for the girls "ransom"? Sometimes I feel like they are a gift for me, and I wonder if it is right to pray for God to provide the means to bring them home. Does that make sense to anyone? It isn't just about the girls... they need a mommy... but I may need them just as much.

The Heart Of God...

Does it break Gods heart when a child cries and no one seems to care?

Does it break Gods heart when a crying child falls silent because they finally understand that no one will answer?

Does it break Gods heart when He says to us "GO" and we say "not now"?

Does it break Gods heart to say to us "Be my hands and feet" and we say "not me"?

Does it break Gods heart when the lonely finally give up, when the least of these are forgotten, when we refuse to take the hand of our enemies and bring them out of the depths of their struggles?

Does it break Gods heart when we turn from Him again and again fearing our problems are bigger than our God?

Does it break Gods heart when we stay silent about our Love for Him, our Joy in Him, our Peace from Him, our salvation because of the death of His beloved Son?

Does it break Gods heart to know that what is dearest to His heart leaves ours unaffected?

The cry of the orphan, the loneliness of the widow, the suffering of the prisoner, the hunger of the poor, the hopelessness of the unredeemed? Do they break your heart like they do Gods?

I pray for myself, my loved ones, and for my dear friends that read this blog:

May that which breaks the heart of God break your heart as well!

1 John 3: 16-24

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