This video explains why it matters, why it is worth taking 8 days away from my family, why it is worth scrimping and scratching to pay several thousand dollars in 6 months to go fly to Korea and serve people, why it is worth my 12 year old daughter missing 7 days of school so she can be the hands and feet of Jesus and rock homeless babies and play with Korean children living in Evergreen Children's Home, why I'm constantly thinking about homeless children and adoption and how to spur the church to be more involved. It is a true story of a pastor in Seoul who rescues abandoned newborns.
http://vimeo.com/41412962
Life is precious and worthy of our love and effort. God has been working over-time the past week to remind us of his love for the orphan(163 million of them worldwide). Mike met people involved in a miraculous Russian adoption this week and the video tore him up. The Dropbox Movie, in the trailer above, nearly killed me. Knowing there are abandoned infants in Korea, who are not placed in to families like ours--families that would love to call them sons and daughters, but will grow up in an orphanage--devastating! Then, since we sponsor a child with Compassion, we receive their quarterly magazine. One of the stories was about a newborn girl found along the roadside in India. She'd been mauled by a wild animal and lost an eye. She was covered in ant bites. A family took her in and cared for her. Horrifying what people do to babies. Do we have no regard for life anymore??
So, I'm renewed in my zeal for standing up for children who need an advocate and a momma and daddy! Every life is totally worth it
PS. My amazing sister, Emily, offered to make Hudson's foster mother a scrapbook!!! Thanks Em.
He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8
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