Give Me Jesus!

Our family loves this song!
This is not where we belong!
Take this world and give us Jesus!
We love Jesus.
We live for Jesus.
We long to serve Jesus!
Jesus is where joy is found.
Join us--find out for yourself

Video: Beautiful Jesus

Video: Matthew West - "My Own Little World"

This song really caught our attention as we heard it in the car yesterday. We found it quite convicting.

(You'll want to turn off our music on the sidebar just below Sunshine's photo.)

Video: Go - Jackie Pullinger

This video needs no explanation than to say the photos were taken at an orphanage in Haiti. (What I formerly wrote was apparently incorrect.)

(You will want to pause the music on the side of our blog, just below the photo of Poochita, before you begin).

The Day We Long For....

Our dear friends the Nordstroms, who are also adopting, posted a video on their blog about a family from the same adoption agency that they are adopting through. They are waiting for a little girl from Ethiopia and they are hoping every day to hear they can go to meet her. You can visit their blog here: http://nordstromsadopt.blogspot.com/

Mom and I watched this video and cried through it, thinking first of all about the day we long for, when we can bring our three precious orphans home. We also thought of the Nordstroms and the day when they will be able to go to their orphanage to meet their precious little girl and then finally bring her home. The verse that kept coming to my mind while I watched the faces of the happy parents and the beautiful baby girl was John 14:18: "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you." Oh, I just want our precious Russians to know that, in their orphanages, waiting, always waiting. I pray that they will cling to the hope that we will come for them, that they are loved and a place is being prepared for them.

Here is the video. Consider yourself forewarned: grab the tissue box.



~Tessa