Help Us Bring Our Girls Home! Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.Psalm 82:3

Adopting one child won't change the world; but for that child, the world WILL change. Follow our progress on our blog! We have finished the homestudy and working on getting the USCIS paper work together to send in ouri-600a. We have a funding raising page. You can go and buy prints of some of my original photography here. For tax deductible donations you can send a check to: LifeSongs for Orphans PO Box 40 Gridley, IL 61744 You need to put "Licht #822" in the memo section of the check. According to IRS guidelines, your donation is to the non-profit organization. This organization retains full discretion over its use, but intends to honor the donor's suggested use. Or you can donate online through Paypal. (not tax deductible)   Fundraiser Ideas by EFI Your Source For Fundraiser Products Update Fundraiser Thermometer Here     Email me for any questions: deena@ssvmidwifery.com   Follow our progress on our blog! Some of you know we have felt called and directed by God to adopt a “fatherless” child into our family.  Her name is Lima and she is 11 years old from Chuvashia, Russia. She has special needs. It has been suggested that she may have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. We had the pleasure of hosting her in Michigan this past March. She is a wonderful child and will fit into our family perfectly. What many of you may not know, is that another little girl has captured our heart as well. Xenia, whom we will re-name Rebekah, is a 9 year old little girl from Chuvashia, Russia. She is also suspected to have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. She is coming in July to Missouri for 10 days. We should be able to host her here in Tulsa! So many of you will get to meet her! After adopting Sarah this last August, we felt we would wait a few years before adopting again, but after an email from a friend, things changed. Lima was in a group of orphans from Russia that came over on a trip to Tulsa with The Russian Lighthouse Project. We found out about her after she left back to Russia. God pulled at our hearts and I knew we needed to pursue this. Lloyd was not convinced, but did agree to go to a meeting put on by Lighthouse. I came out of the meeting overwhelmed and sure this could not happen. Lloyd came out feeling like it was supposed to. After much prayer and the Holy Spirit’s conviction, we knew Lima was meant to be our daughter. Since that decision to follow God, we have seen miracle after miracle and the whole process is being knit together by the Lord.  Another little girl was brought to our attention. After a week of prayer, we felt God wanted to add her to our family as well. God desires for orphans of all nations to be loved, cared for and adopted into Christian families – ultimately so they can become saved, and be adopted into His eternal family through Jesus Christ!     Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:27   Did you know it is estimated less than 10% of all orphan children are adopted into evangelical Christian families?   According to current estimates, if only 10% more Christians in America would adopt, it would be equivalent to providing homes for all the orphans in Eastern Europe (1.5 million), Latin America (400,000), and the US foster care system (150,000).   We estimate for both girls,  our total cost for adoption fees, document preparation, home study, airfare, travel, attorney fees, etc. to be $60,000 - that’s certainly money we don’t have, but we know God is faithful and is leading us to trust Him.  By God’s grace we’ve been able to pay the initial $23000.   Honestly, it’s a little difficult (because of our pride), to make our needs known to the Body of Christ around us, but we also know it’s very Biblical to do so.  We appreciate your friendship very much and would like you to pray & consider helping us in our adoption.  There are many ways you can help:   1. Prayer – Please pray God would tenderly care for Lima and Rebekah in Russia and protect them until we are able to bring them home; that God would prepare our family for the upcoming changes; and that God will give us wisdom, discernment, and insight as we raise Lima and Rebekah to know Jesus Christ.  We would also like prayers for the difficulties in the language barrier. The girls do not speak much English and we are trying to learn Russia. We would also like prayer for July 3rd through the 13th when we will be hosting Rebekah here in our home. We will go and pick her up from Rolla, Mo and then take her back, so we would appreciate prayer for safe trips.   2.  Financial support -   Will you please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help us pay the remaining adoption expenses, to bring Lima and Rebekah home? There are 3 ways you can donate. For more information, you can see the left side of this page. If you have any questions, feel free to email me anytime.deena@ssvmidwifery.com

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