MUST READ

Ok...So I am literally typing this blog just as fast as I can...it is like my brain is working so fast that my fingers can't keep up.  I have never felt as strong about anything as I do at this moment so I hope you are all prepared to listen!!!  So I downloaded 2 books this morning, I know that anyone that knows me and is reading this thinks that is pretty funny because I HATE to read.  Anyway, they are both by the author Kay Bratt.  I am already almost finished with the first one and it is a book that every single person on the planet must read!!!!  The title of the book is "Silent Tears" by Kay Bratt.  I won't tell you too much because I honestly feel so serious about everyone reading and not only that but buy the kindle version and get it on your ipad, iphone or any ebook device so that you can start reading it today!!!  Here is just a little bit about the book, Kay moved to China and lived there for approximately 4 years due to her husbands job.  While she was there she was a volunteer at an orphanage there and this book is basically the journal that she kept while she was there.  It is brutally honest and raw and something that anyone from this great country couldn't possibly imagine!!!

I am more serious then ever about my fundraising for the orphans in China!!!  I have been a bit saddened by the fact that everyone isn't jumping at the opportunity to spend $20, get a shirt in return but  be helping such a great cause.  Now I am on fire!!!!  I am going to be planning many more fundraisers in the future.  Please know that we are paying for our own adoption, that is NOT what this fundraising is about.  This is about raising enough to pay the debt that the orphanage tells us that we have to pay for them having our daughter there for how ever long...and then any extra we can raise will be donated in the form of special bottles for babies with Cleft lip/cleft palate, bars of soap, diapers, formula, toys, clothing and anything else that will be used specifically for the children in the orphanage and their care!!!!

I want to say that I seriously hate to read!!!!  If you are sitting there not even considering getting this book to read because you just don't like to read I promise you will be so appalled by what is going on in this book that you won't be able to put it down.  I also challenge you to read it and consider donating in the form of a check, buying a tshirt, or participating in any other fundraiser that we will be doing such as a possible trivia night or something along those lines.  At this point we have raised a minimal amount but I hope to raise enough to make a different to the one orphanage that we will come in contact with.  Please read the book!!!  Get informed with what these poor precious helpless babies are going thru on a daily basis!!!!!  Then if God opens your heart consider a shirt for the people in your family who sleep on a mattress, in the warmth of your house, and eat meals until they are full with snacks in the middle, and take hot showers daily, and run and play with toys or even get to go outside!!!!!  Know that there are children on the other side of the world that use their fingers for entertainment or softly stroke their own arms in order to feel some sort of human loving touch.  I also want to say that not all orphanages are bad....but all orphanages are full of children who can't possibly get the kind of care that a child deserves, even if the nannies there have the best intentions.  So this isn't about bad nannies...it's about orphans!!!!  God doesn't call us all to adopt but He does call us all to help orphans!!!!  Also if you have an idea for a fundraiser please contact me.  I am willing to do what I need to because at this point this is a mission trip that hopefully I will get to go on next year and as any other mission trip that your church plans there has to be funds in order to get the supplies needed to help these sweet, innocent children!!!!!!  Also if you have a church that would want to get involved and help me sell my shirts please let me know!!!  The shirts are an easy way for someone to help and they can have something in return!!!  I would be grateful to put them for sale in a church bulletin or even if I need to make a trip there on a sunday I will be up for that too.....together we can do this!!!