what a way to celebrate.

      

Lyla Hamilton was recently welcomed home by Aaron, Stephanie, and big brother Ayan.

Aaron and Stephanie have always had a desire to serve and have spent time overseas in orphanages. After attending an adoption conference, the Lord confirmed their calling to adopt.

Ayan was adopted from Kazakhstan and Lyla through domestic adoption.

Lyla was the first child adopted through the Crosspoint Fellowship Church Adoption Fund. What a great way for Crosspoint to celebrate!

 

Make Much of Jesus...

Check out this post from Dan Cruver, Director of Together for Adoption.

I love how Dan captured Making Much of Jesus...

When we as Christians visit orphans in their affliction, we make much of the God who first visited us in ours at great cost to himself. To borrow wording from the Apostle John, “We visit because he first visited us” (1 John 4:19)."

God was orchestrating a plan...

As Joshua and Bethany Taylor were in the midst of the adoption process, she writes,

While I complained about not having “children of my own,” God was orchestrating a plan to bring two precious children into our lives.  While I grieved and whined out prayers to God, unaware that He had already sovereignly answered, He was shaping a heart in me to not just be a biological mother, but a spiritual mother.  I’m growing even more now to understand who a mother really is, and that being a mother is so much more than biological DNA."

After much anticipation, Joshua and Bethany flew to Ethiopia in January of 2009 to bring their precious kiddos (Fekadu and Tigist) home!

 Lifesong for Orphans was blessed to have helped this family by providing them with a matching grant.

Pure Obedience!

 

When Kristin Himmler approached her husband Chad about adopting a child, which would increase their home to a family of six, it was through complete obedience that they surrendered to the Lord!

Chad is a school teacher in Pennsylvania and Kristin stays at home to care for their three small children. 

Lifesong was able to serve this family by providing them with an Adoption Matching Grant through North Way Christian Community Church. 

May we challenge you to consider how Lifesong can serve you... your church... your orphan care ministry?   

Your Church and the Orphan

Kentwood Community Church in Michigan takes a kingdom-minded approach, where they seek to help families overcome the financial barrier to adoption. KCC has partnered with Lifesong to create the KCC/Sam & Ellie Adoption Fund in order to provide a way to bring waiting children into forever families. 

KCC orphan advocates will be attending a workshop this month -