{"id":4568,"date":"2016-09-16T17:23:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T17:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adeyesalem.com\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2016-09-16T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T17:23:34","slug":"begging-for-money-or-saving-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adeyesalem.com\/begging-for-money-or-saving-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"begging for money or saving a life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I shared something on Facebook this week about how heartbreaking (and wrong!) it is to see so much negativity on social media regarding families who fundraise for their adoptions. \u00a0It is so<\/em> easy to have an opinion about something while never even taking one step in someone else’s shoes. \u00a0I guess that’s just one of the many downsides of social media. \u00a0It gives naysayers a platform to spew their judgmental, opinionated, nasty opinions so freely. \u00a0Sad.<\/p>\n

And while they carry on, there are families working their tails off to bring home children from hard places to a place of love and safety. \u00a0After reading something so heinous and so hurtful (toward a fundraising family) this week, I\u00a0was reminded\u00a0about the second child I ever fundraised for here on my blog.<\/p>\n

Five years ago, so many of us fell in love with a tiny, fragile little love in Eastern Europe<\/a><\/strong> who was clinging to life. \u00a0At eleven years old and weighing just ten pounds, I honestly didn’t know if she was strong enough to survive the wait for her family, let along the grueling trip home. \u00a0In every respect, a child imprisoned in a system of neglect and total abandonment. A precious family had stepped up, but needed help financially to pay for the astronomical adoption costs.<\/p>\n

I just shared the need to a small group of people who read here.<\/p>\n

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The most incredible miracle happened over the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n

You see, I believe that the body of Christ is just amazing! \u00a0I believe that, no matter what anyone says and no matter the vicious judgment that gets shouted loud and clear over the darn internet….GOD’S PEOPLE ARE GOOD AND FAITHFUL!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe with all my heart that God’s people long<\/em> to do something to help an orphan…even<\/em> when they’re not called to go themselves.<\/p>\n

Because within 48 hours, Amelia was coming home.<\/p>\n

$23,000.00 was raised and her adoption was fully funded.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fully loved by every single one of the 712\u00a0people<\/span>\u00a0who gave sacrificially to pay her RANSOM.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Seven hundred and twelve total strangers came together to say, “Yes! \u00a0This IS my problem because I am called by God to care for the fatherless!”<\/p>\n

Today, Amelia is home and blossoming.<\/p>\n

She is loved, cherished, and gets all of the medical attention and therapies that she needs. \u00a0I look at this sweet little now-fifteen-year-old and I get all teary. \u00a0Had it not been for a group of people passionately coming together, she would not be alive.<\/p>\n

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Please try and convince me that fundraising for\u00a0adoption\u00a0isn’t from the heart of God?<\/p>\n

When families step out in faith to adopt children, that’s a ministry<\/em> that their family is called to. Adopting children with special needs is no walk in the park, no mission that a family takes on for the fun of it. No! It’s takes a lifetime of sacrificial love and commitment. It’s a laying down of their lives as they once knew it and embracing a life that God has CALLED them to. When one of these courageous families fundraises to bring their child home, I see it as an honor and a privilege<\/strong> to give what I can. Why? \u00a0Because this IS caring for the fatherless. \u00a0Because the seed that I sow literally changes the course of a child’s life–sometimes even between life and certain death. \u00a0How can we possibly even try to put a value on that?<\/p>\n

Coming alongside a fundraising family is we, the faithful body of Christ, linking arms with them to see them fulfill the mission that God has called them to. \u00a0No different to sending missionaries to Third World nations. No different to giving to ministries that send relief where it is needed most in the world. \u00a0No different to supporting a local ministry to care for the poor. \u00a0Absolutely no different!<\/p>\n

Fundraising matters, my friends! \u00a0It matters so, so much.<\/p>\n

No one will ever, ever convince me otherwise.<\/p>\n

Praying for every family that\u00a0is trusting God to provide the resources for them\u00a0to get to their\u00a0child. \u00a0May you too see His faithful hand in your journey.<\/p>\n

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