Paying It Forward

We have been amazingly blessed and Jesus provides for our needs according to His promises. Sometimes I have no idea how we make ends meet but we do. Actually, I do know … God tells us in His Word …

“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.”
~ Malachi 3:10

Since arriving home with the kids we have been fortunate to be able to pay it forward to (please click on the links below or see the side bar titled “Pay It Forward” to find out more about these worthy causes)

• African Widows and Orphans Project
• Ethiopia Reads
• Ethiopian Adoption Relief
• Food for Kids
• Gospel for Asia
• the Samuel Phillipson Fund (for the family of an injured Ethiopian adoptee)
• the Solomon Abraham Fund (for the family of an elder of a local Ethiopian church, killed by a drunk driver)

and of course our regular giving to our home church.

So why am I babbling on about all of this now? Well, for most of my adult life I have had the privilege of sponsoring a child through various programs in countries such as the Philippines and Mexico. Recently I received a letter stating that my current sponsored child had left the program/school in order to work and support his family (he is 16 years old).

So now we are free to open the doors of our storehouse to another child. We are choosing Ethiopia this time, in continuance of our support to the kids’ birth country. We’ll be working with Compassion International to come together as a family and choose a child who has been waiting for a sponsor. Naomi & Josiah will use part of their own tithe money to help out, and we’ll make letters to the child a family project. We’re so excited for this new addition to our family!

“Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.”
~ Psalm 82:3