Updated the Blog Again...

...changed out the color scheme this time too and made a new blog header too. What do you think? I do sell these for a few dollars each. They are very customizable depending on artist interpretation and what I've available in my content library. Not quite comfortable with using pics of your kids/or the kids you are adopting on your blog? No problem. Also, I will offer these out to be used for adoption fundraisers too! Just let me know, you can leave a comment or email me. Take care all! Have a good day!

Thank You...

...everyone! Thank you for the prayers! Sweet little Monroe [see entry below] has a committed family! This is amazing and I am so grateful! He won't have to go to an institution and be tied to a crib, he will get medical attention and love, enough to eat, schooling, friends and most of all family! This is an example of the power of prayer! Thank you all for putting this before Him.

Some Time Ago...

... I posted a link to THIS WEBPAGE of a woman whom was adopting kids with severe special needs decades ago before it was so widely heard of here in the USA.

To echo Meridith -- "Really?"

Monroe has spastic cerebral palsy. He also has a GRANT of 20,000 to cover his adoption and to keep him out of an institution.

I know some families are not prepared for this but somewhere, someone is and can. We just have to find that someone. I do hope his family is out there to get him. I do hope they have only to see his sweet little face. If you can't bring him home, please pass word of him on. Please, I know I ask this often of you bloggers, I know, but sometimes its all I can do. It takes one minute - one minute that can change his life. Like little Lera, it could be YOUR blog post that changes Monroe's life!

Here is his profile from Reece's Rainbow:

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Monroe (12)

BOY, Born February 4, 2005

SIGNIFICANT RISK, PLEASE ADOPT ME SOON!!

Monroe is a sunshine of a little boy! He is already 5 and blessed to still be at the baby house. He needs a family right away!

From a missionary who visited with him in June 2010: I met with the doctor in his Groupa House who brought me back to meet him. The Head Doctor wanted me to meet the children who needed equipment. While measuring him for a chair, she explained to me what was more important was that he get a family. He will be traferred in six months to the worst institution, restrained in a crib in a dark room. She broke into tears! Monroe has spastic cerebral palsy in all four limbs and is globally delayed. He is able to recognize the voices of his careworkers and understand simple directions. However, due to his spasticity he is unable to do much of anything. No speech. With therapy he can improve but will always have limitations. I measured his head circumfeence and once home will check with a doctor regtarding whether ir not he is microcephalic as well. I will try to gather more information on him today. His temperament was sweet and his eyes twinkled. He needs a family fast!

From an adoptive family who visited with him in June 2009: Monroe has CP. It appears that he is unable to use his arms and legs and is not sitting up on his own. He has the most beautiful smile and I don't think there is much of a cognitive delay. He loves to be held and his whole face lights up when you come near him."

*** Monroe has an incredible benefactor who has offered a FULL GRANT of $20,000 for his adoption. He is facing imminent institutionalization, and will regress quickly once he is transferred. Families who are qualified (www.reecesrainbow.org/newfamily.html) to adopt internationally and who are approved to adopt a significantly delayed child should contact Andrea for more information. This is a very fast program and it is very possible to have him home before the end of 2010! ***

Only families with at least one parent under age 50 can adopt Monroe from his country. Must be a heterosexual married couple.

MORE PHOTOS AVAILABLE

I have $20,000 in my grant fund towards the cost of my adoption!

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...all his family has to do is go get him. So, what do you say everyone, if that lady could bring home severely disabled kids decades ago -- can't we find a home for and get one little boy home today? Contact Andrea at Reeces Rainbow about Monroe today. Thanks for your time everyone.

One of a Kind:

“The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.”

--Pablo Casals

This Little Boy and I...

...share a birthday! When I saw that I was like, well, we have common ground and a connection! I absolutely must tell you all about him. From his profile at Reece's Rainbow:

Alexander (20)

OH, what a difference a new picture can make!! Alexander has been listed with us for more than 2 years, and not a soul has ever inquired about him. Up until now, the only photos we have had of him were laying down in a crib, never showing him up and mobile and active! But look at him!! What a great smile, and so much life in him!

Alexander is a handsome little boy who really needs a loving family. He has dark hair and brown eyes. He is already 5! He was born with a minor PDA, but does not have pulmonary hypertension. He also has flat feet. Please give Alexander the chance to grow up in a loving family He has already turned 5, so he is facing imminent institutionalization!

HEADS WERE SHAVED FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS

Click HERE for Alexander's Page at Reece's Rainbow. You may have to scroll down a bit but he is there.

Matthew 17:20

...I know I keep repeating it but there is power in faith and in prayer...

"And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief: for truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you."

Matthew 17:20

Acts 17:26

I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live…

About A Small World:

Ok, have you ever really thought about the words? So many different people, so many different languages --- all --- the same --- song....




Look beyond the Disneyland part of it for a moment and really listen. Have a good day all!

S.O.S: I am not kidding

As a teenager I went to church camp every year, one summer the theme of the camp was S.O.S. -- not meaning the "save our ship" that is normally accredited for, but instead: "Save Our Souls"

What Faith is About:

...hey everyone,

Its true, I don't know you. I thought I shouldn't post this so open and bare to a world of strangers I don't know, I was afraid to, I was afraid of what you would all think and do. Then I realised that was what the devil wanted -- for me to be afraid to speak up for people who don't have a voice; so they will remain in the silent dark of his misery even as they scream so loud with voices that cannot be heard.

Mine can.

So how can I turn away from someone whom needs me to talk for her most? I can't. So even at the risk of my own comfort and security -- here goes:

I wanted to make this a post with all sorts of description, but I don't have the words... something so tragic is hanging in balance, so horrifically tragic and unfair to one little child whom has no say in the matter.

Please, please, please, please.... even if I don't know you, even if you came to this blog by mistake or by a search engine or by some random link, please stop and say a prayer for little Mara today, that a miracle might move in two people who play an important part in a decision for her that will effect the rest of her life.

I have to be Cryptic, but God understands. Will you take this leap of faith with me for one little orphan girl? Will you take a few moments to pray for an absolute stranger at the request of someone you've never met without an idea what its really about? Will you take that leap of faith? Will you past the request on? All of you --- please...

In faith,
Debrah

Proverbs 3:27:

"Do not withhold any good thing from those who deserve it when it is in your power to help them"

Adopt a Blind Child

UPDATE 02.20.12: I am happy to announce that Dmitriy has been found by a family! And since I've had several visitors come to this page by searching for 'adopt blind children' here are a few more links to kids who need us:

http://reecesrainbow.org/33322/tobias-2h

http://reecesrainbow.org/32915/andrew-3

http://reecesrainbow.org/30400/christian-14g

http://reecesrainbow.org/28552/warren

http://reecesrainbow.org/category/waitingchildren/other-angel-boys

http://reecesrainbow.org/30643/arianna-8w

http://reecesrainbow.org/957/jeanne-b-13ei1-3

http://reecesrainbow.org/850/wendy-6

http://reecesrainbow.org/category/waitingchildren/angel-girls-0-5

http://reecesrainbow.org/1369/artem

http://reecesrainbow.org/30561/talya-5g

http://reecesrainbow.org/1710/bridget-20

http://reecesrainbow.org/26928/judie

http://reecesrainbow.org/31706/carissa

http://www.eliproject.org/children/daria/


"I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring." ~Liz Armbruster.

I wrote the title the way I did in hopes of drawing people in from search engines whom are looking for a beautiful little boy! Welcome to my blog!

Meet sweet Dmitriy, he has been waiting on Reece's Rainbow for almost 3 years. [his name is a link to the page he is on, you might have to scroll a bit to find him and a bit more info there] This is the same Dmitry I've posted about here before and I would commit to him and bring him home in a matter of seconds if I could. But I can't.... so how about you? I am following Mara's adoption, and Freddie's too, hopefully I can follow Dmitriy's soon too!

Clicking on his 'label' below will bring you to other entries I have written with him in it, including one with a picture he was younger in. Someone go get sweet Dmitriy for their own. :)

My Sweet Mara:

A wonderful, wonderful family has finally found my sweet Mara and they will be going to get her and bring her home. Please everyone, what they need now mostly is prayer, God will know what you are praying for if you pray for Mara's family, for things to work in their favor. We want to flood the Heavens with prayers for her. Please. I can't ask enough, and not just once but every time you think of it over the next couple weeks. I love this little girl as though she were my very own...

A Good Question:

"Sometime I would like to ask God why He allows so much poverty, famine, suffering and injustice in the world when He could do something about it, but I am afraid He might ask me the same question."

- Anonymous