"Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For he who is least among you all--he is the greatest. (Luke 9:48)"
This website was created to raise money to adopt a baby or a sibling group of two children from Liberia. We are a large, loving, adoptive family who has prayed and talked at great length about adding to our family through adoption once again. As a family we did our research and decided that Liberia, with it's American roots, and desperate need, was calling us to adopt from there. Our children are a huge part of our process already.
This website was also created to blog and enter information at least once a week, probably more, to keep people (family, friends, and even strangers) updated on our journey. We hope that it will inspire others to adopt and help spread the word about the desperate need for aid in Liberia, and also to encourage people to step and make a difference in the world.
The intention is to keep this website going long after we have finished our journey. We will invite other families who need to raise money to adopt from Liberia to utilize this website as a place to do so. We hope to be able to help them with this so there really is a plan in place for a long term, large impact on the situation in Liberia.
Please take a moment to sign our guestbook. It means so much that people are visiting the website and praying for us and for the children, missionary workers and people of Liberia. :)
One day an old man was walking along the beach. It was low tide, and the sand was littered with thousands of stranded starfish that had been washed ashore. The man began walking very carefully so as not to step on any of the beautiful creatures.
Since the animals still seemed to be alive, he considered picking some of them up and putting them back in the water, where they could resume their lives.
The man knew the starfish would die if left on the shore, but he reasoned that he could not possibly help them all, so he chose to do nothing and continued walking.
Soon afterward, the man came upon a small child on the beach who was frantically throwing one starfish after another back into the sea. The old man stopped and asked the child, “what are you doing?”
“I’m saving the starfish,” the child replied.
“Why waste your time?... There are so many you can’t save them all so what does it matter?” argued the man.
Without hesitation, the child picked up another starfish and tossed the starfish back into the water. “It matters to this one,” the child explained.
One in eight babies die at birth and nearly half the children die before they are five years old. These numbers are appalling since it is estimated that 43% of the 3-½ million people are children under 14.
The unemployment rate in Liberia is a staggering 85%.
80% of the people live in extreme poverty.
Malnutrition is wide spread especially among children.
Most medical facilities have been destroyed, looted or damaged preventing these precious children from receiving basic and necessary care.
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