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What a difference a week makes (and a few other random things)

August 8, 2010

Its hard to believe its not yet even been a week since we took in our foster boy, but if you took a look at the little man you would think he had been here for years. He has stopped crying so much and has been sleeping a full 11 hours each night, he even [...]

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God is good!

August 6, 2010

Jessie and I are both sitting here stunned, we finally got all the kids to sleep and had a chance to check the total donations and we just passed the total needed to move the kids up here! It has not even been 24 hours yet and you all did it! We are humbled and [...]

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A new home for the kids

August 5, 2010

We have a request for you today, as many of you know we essentially have two orphanage locations. One in the south which has been the main location and is close to the tribes, that one currently houses 22 children. Then we have another smaller location in the north where we house the medical cases [...]

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Stay at home Dad (Literally)

August 5, 2010

Today is a little bit easier than yesterday was, for one thing we slept the whole night, that was very nice compared to the hours of screaming we sat through the night before. We are starting to notice a pattern with our new little boy in the house, he hates coming and going of any [...]

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Time for some baby wearing…

August 4, 2010

I am sitting and staring at my computer trying to compose my thoughts, and it seems they are left strewn around the house in little broken pieces. Last week we had a small nearly two-year-old boy come into our home from the orphanage, he has been struggling with emotional issues and we felt he needed [...]

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Little Bodo

August 2, 2010

I don’t exactly know what it is about Bodo, but there is something that is undeniably special, and its not only for those of us who know him. We get email from more people, asking how he is and weather or not he is adjusting well to orphanage life, than any other kid. Perhaps it [...]

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Beanium

July 30, 2010

I have to apologize for the silence, you were all tracking with us last week as we held our breath waiting for word from Lale and the child rescue he was attempting. When we finally did hear from him he had tragic news for us, the two families had disappeared into the bush and no [...]

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Monday morning randomness

July 19, 2010

The week is just getting going on this side of the planet and I wanted to sit down for a second and catch up on things around here, lots of randomness so I am going to revert to bullet points. The rental car is supposed to be finished at the shop today and we will [...]

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Everything in Africa time

July 16, 2010

I am sad to report that the vehicle has still not left for the village where the children are being held. The car that we normally rent has been in the shop, it was all ready to leave Thursday morning but they found a problem and had to park it while the part comes in, [...]

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Rescue Update

July 14, 2010

Ok this is awesome, I just logged on to my email and saw a donation that pays for the entire trip to save these two kids! We already made the phone calls and have people getting ready to leave first thing in the morning to head out to the village where these kids are [...]

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