Today

I am so glad that I saved some of the donations. I am not sure why I should but I had a feeling that I shouldn't hand out all of them to the kids at camp. Now I know why. Today weet are going to visit the Semochkov family. They are a very unique family in that they have ten foster children that they are raising. You can read a little more about them on the ROJ site. I am very excited to be an encourager to them... and I trust that we will learn so much from them.

In case you don't know, ROJ is an NGO whose goal is to take in orphans to prepare them for family life-- teach them love, nurturing, education, purpose, and about the Lord's salvation. This has not happened as of yet.... for many reasons. That is one of the main reasons we came. I have had many discussions with the founder on how to move forward and begin taking in orphans-- the idea is that the people around us will see the value of doing this and begin embracing the children themselves. The Semochkov family is already doing this.... but they are very unique. Over here they just don't normally do that.

Anyway, I will share more about our exciting day. After, we have an appointment to look at some property for sale. Finding families that are willing to become a fostering home is only part of the plan. It is logical to expect that a bigger family would need bigger housing and financial help in caring for the kids. As ROJ's vision is playing out-- it needs more buildings and to renovate the old ones. I didn't realize how much fun drawing up plans and seeing first hand building going on can be.

Please pray. Amazing things are happened here. But that also means that the enemy is having a field day trying to interfere.