Please watch with discretion. This video deals with what Russian girls face when no one wants them. They are forced into a life of prostitution. Children's HopeChest, a ministry directed by Tom Davis, wants to help girls like Anya. Please pray about how you can help.
Please consider the orphans as we start a new year. How can you help this year? Remember that this is the mark of true religion. Maybe this means you go somewhere: Russia, Ethiopia, Haiti, Guatemala, Ukraine. Maybe you are called to sponsor a child and provide for them. Maybe you will raise money to build an orphanage. Maybe this means you will adopt a child, or children. Maybe you will save a girl from prostitution against her will. Whatever it is, the sacrifice you make will return far more than you could even imagine.
As I prepare for my own wedding coming up in March, I found this article very good and helpful and defining what love is in our confused and backwards culture.
Having just survived finals, it occured to Tessa and I that we had a blog. A blog?!?!
Yes, it's been ages since we've posted. God has shown his power and goodness mightily to us in the past weeks as we traveled to Moscow and begun adjusting to life with our three new siblings.
So, to warm my posting skills back up, I'd like to post a video that gave me chills and made my heart swell with praise. One day, every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord!
(As a postscript, my new 6 year old sister Oksana has been standing by my side watching the video posted above. Halfway through she started dancing and even began to sing, "Ah-lu-la! Ah-lu-la!" Having seen her language skills grow by leaps and bounds in the past three weeks, I am extremely thankful to hear her little voice uplifted, albeit unknowingly, to the Savior whose birth we are about to celebrate.)
