Three Things I'm Excited About

Three things I'm excited about right here in my own backyard! 

The Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit 8 is taking place RIGHT HERE in Orange County, hosted by Saddleback Church on May 3-4.  If you are passionate about orphan care, adoption, foster care, and caring for the needs of the fatherless, you really DO NOT want to miss this.  Please take a few minutes and register to attend the Summit.  Get a babysitter.  Let's meet up for lunch.  Let's attend seminars and breakout sessions, network, share, seek the Lord and learn from the experiences of others about how we can use our God-given abilities to serve orphaned children and the poor.  The Summit will be informative in helping paint the full spectrum of the issues and obstacles we must confront in order to help reduce the orphan crisis in our world.  There are SO many facets to orphan care, not simply adoption, and Summit 8 will be a powerful gathering of thousands of orphan care/adoption advocates.  It is sure to inspire anyone who attends! 
  

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Bookguy and I are finishing our paperwork to become involved in Regenesis Rising, a non-profit organization that helps emancipated foster youth right here in our own city. We are excited to see how God is working in this new organization, and hopeful that we can become a friend or mentor to a teenager/young adult who might need a friend.

We are having an OCEAN (Orange County Ethiopian Adoption Network) picnic/park playdate on Sunday, February 12 at 3:00 pm at Citrus Ranch Park in Tustin.  At our last gathering we had more than 12 couples (some post placement and some in process), and we had over a dozen Ethiopian beauties running around like chickens.  We marveled at how God brought all these orphaned children into our homes to be in our forever family.  PLEASE if you know anyone in Orange County who has adopted from Ethiopia or is in process, help spread the word!  Anyone is welcome, whether they just started their homestudy, finishing their dossier, waiting to travel or waiting for their final trip!  Also, we have a Facebook group, so send me a message on Facebook if you want to be added!  It's how our little Ethiopian adoption community stays in touch and encourages one another.