JOY UNSPEAKABLE
7 years ago
Monday, March 10, 2008
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About Me
- Ellie
- I love Jesus Christ with all my heart. For reasons that I will never understand, He died to save me from my sins. I love Him because He first loved me. He says in Matthew 25:40 that He is "the least of these." He is the orphan and the widow and the poor and the hungry. I love Him and want to serve Him through serving the least.I have 8 siblings; 2 biological, 5 adopted, and one "unofficially adopted". Adoption has opened my eyes and changed my heart forever. I have a new passion and what I have seen has broken me and changed my heart. This started out as a journal of my trip to Ethiopia to bring home my 3 newest siblings but it has turned into much more. God has started me and my family on a whole new journey and it's crazy, exciting, hard and just plain God. Since we started adopting 6 years ago, God has taken me to Africa, China and Guatemala to care for and visit orphans. God has taught me so much through serving them and getting to know them and I hope to be able to give as much to them as they have to me.
My Family
There's quite a few of us.
A Few Stops:
Uganda 2010
Guatemala 2009
China 2008
Ethiopia 2007
My favorite blog ever.
My Family
9 comments:
Awesome. The problem is that people are making it hard to adopt now. Haiti is taking 2 years and they are holding up paperwork on anyone with birth children. China is taking two years to get a referral. I asked about a special needs child who needed surgery (as opposed to cute newborn) and was turned down because of not enough income. And adopting itself is very expensive. I wish the officials would really look out for the needs of the children so that they could all go to loving homes.
Beautiful video, Ellie.
Wow - 143 million orphans. I didn't know the number was that high. Thanks for posting this.
Cindy
Beautiful video, Ellie.
Wow - 143 million orphans. I didn't know the number was that high. Thanks for posting this.
Cindy
Wow. That just blew me away. Nice blog! I love the colours!
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hhhmm...I think I need to show this to someone......
Ellie,
I have a favor- can you ask your mom if you guys needed 1 post-placement report for the kids or seperate ones for each child? I haven't been able to get an answer from Heather.
Thank you!
Renee
I've got a very heavy heart after watching this video, I may steal it and put it on our blog too! Very powerful - thanks for sharing!
Wow!! I love coming on your blog and seeing a video that I made! Too cool!!! Thank you so much for posting it Ellie!!!! =D
~Staci
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