God showed up for Bezawit & Natti

 Check out this note we received today.  Thank you God for showing up and being The Provider!

Thank you to all of you who give generously and sacrificially to help make adoptions and stories like this a reality!

Dear Lifesong for Orphans,

Thank you so much for helping us raise more money than we ever expected!! Your matching grant program spurred on many others to give to our adoption of Bezawit, a beautiful nine year old girl and her adorable 18 month brother Natti from Ethiopia.

As we began this journey, we did not have the money but knew God was calling us to this and would provide somehow. It has been an incredible journey in so many ways but primarily to see God work in such a mighty way through organizations, people and circumstances. He is so faithful!!

Thank you again for your devotion to obeying God's Word to take care of the orphans by aiding adoptive families in this most significant way.


Many blessings to all of you.

In Christ,

Kevin, Sue, Kassy, Bezawit, Aaron and Natti

And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus, Phillipians 4:19

Hope Tizita Lehman | One less orphan

Exactly one year ago...May 13, 2008....Hope Tizita was grafted into our family!

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Born in a thatched roof hut in the bush of Ethiopia...

These were some of the very first pictures we saw of her...

 

Coming home she was showered with love...

And forever embraced as daughter, sister, grandaughter, niece and precious creation of God!

Hope,

We love you unconditionally, and are privileged to be your parents!

We hope that you will one day become adopted into God's eternal family through faith in Jesus Christ!

Enjoying the journey of life with you...

Love,

Dad & Mom 

"well done" OR "safely done"?

When our life is over, and we are reviewing our life together with our Father....

Which will it be for you and I?

Andy

Gulf Coast Orphan Expo | May 16th - Pensacola, FL

See you there! - Gulf Coast Orphan Expo

Keynote Speaker: Emily Chapman Richards

Emily Chapman Richards, eldest daughter of Christian recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman, will share her compelling story of faith that began as an eleven-year-old child with a heart for adoption and continues today as an active worker on behalf of orphans through Shaohannah’s Hope. Emily has two biological brothers and three younger sisters adopted from China. The Chapman family has been featured on various media outlets such as Good Morning America, Larry King Live, The Huckabee Show, Fox and Friends highlighting their adoption story and continued advocacy work on behalf of the 130 million orphans worldwide. Having impacted thousands of lives, Emily has experienced much joy, brokenness, and hope, and through it all has become even more passionate about seeing all people, both young and old, join together in the most important work of caring for orphans.

Breakout Choices:

Adoption 101
This track is designed for people who are interested in learning the basics about adoption. Anyone can come and go through the breakout sessions designed to give them information on domestic infant adoption, international adoption, foster care adoption, and fund raising for an adoption.

Orphan Care and Adoption Ministry
If you are interested in getting your church more involved in orphan care and promoting adoption, this track will give you tools and resources you need to make that happen. Breakouts include Developing an Orphan Care and Adoption Ministry in Your Church, Adoption Funds for Your Church, and Leading Support Groups and Information Meetings in Your Church.

Adoptive Parents
This track is intended to give support and information for those who have already adopted. Breakouts include What Every Adoptee Wishes their Adoptive Parents Knew, Raising the Hurt Child, and Bonding and Attachment.

Letters from the children | Honduras

Check out these special notes we received from some of the children on our last trip to Honduras...

Dear Lifesong,

I’m writing you out of appreciation for you being so special to me by becoming a part of what plan Escalon is and I wanted to tell you that I will be praying for you that you will prosper and that God will always be with you in all you do. We know that life can be difficult but we know that God is always with us.

You are great people and I will remember you in my heart even though there is great distance between us.

I also want to thank you for the blessings that you are to this ministry, it is a big help and more than you can imagine. I hope that you will continue to pray for this ministry and the people here in our little piece of heaven (plan Escalon), because I would have no idea where I’d be if this place didn’t exist. It has made big changes in many lives including my family.

Thank you for everything.

I’ll remember you all and pray that God will repay you with more abundance.

Mayra Mata

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Dear Lifesong

Receive the blessings in abundance from our creator.

The motive for this small note is to express our gratitude for becoming part of this ministry. We hope that your efforts be repaid by the Lord and every thing that you have sown will be multiplied to you all.

There are not word to express our gratitude for folks like you and what you do, we know that you do it all out of a heart of love. I didn’t have the chance to meet you but I will remember you all.

Thanks to God and folks like you, I will be graduating this year after much sacrifice but the important thing is I am very happy and grateful to have been part of this great family at Escalon. I will always feel a part of this family and that now you too are part of our family. I hope that God will allow you all to return again and that God will open the windows of heaven over you. It is my desire that I will donate a year back to Escalon when I graduate to help others like others have helped me.

Blessings to all of you and prayers that God will keep you. Thanks for your time and work and for supporting this ministry.

Maribel