Brian and Shelly Burman will be bringing home...Patrica/Paige, Lauren and Nolan! This family has an incredible testimony on their blog http://carringtonscourage.blogspot.com/ they are a large family that has opened their home and hearts to special needs adoption. I read their blog when we were starting the process to adopt Sarah and was just amazed by their story of Carrington, who was adopted very near death and how God used this family to bring her to LIFE! Go read their blog....you will be amazed by their love & story.
Shelly reached out to me after Selah's accident and we quickly became friends. We seem to "get each other" that can be scary LOL! When I saw that Patrica/Paige/Sally (she is called Patrica on Grace Haven Ministries, Paige on Reece's Rainbow and Sally in our hearts...) had a family committed to her, I was thrilled and announced it on my FB page as my friends knew how much we had hoped to adopt her before Selah's accident. Then Shelly contacted me and told me THEY were the ones adopting her!!! I was very happy because I know they have the skills to parent her as well as these other two children. BTW if you are wondering why she had so many names, it is because we called her Sally...and each of the ministries listed her and could not use her real name.
http://reecesrainbow.org/1377/nolan117
These three children were all at the same institution that our girls were at. I got to know the girls and were blessed to spend time with them. I think I saw Nolan some, there was a group of boys more physically active, and I think he was in that group. Sometimes it is hard to tell who a child is unless you really know their picture, before you get to the orphanage.
The girls are now in a regular orphanage and the little boy is in another one. It will be a long and expensive adoption but in the end, these three lives will be saved, they will get to know the love of a family...that makes it all worth it!
My goal is to raise $1000 and it will go on Patrica/Paige/Sally's account with Grace Haven Ministries as I planned from the beginning. I am so very thrilled that they all have grants from Reece's Rainbow, from folks raising money and giving sacrificially in order to bring these children home. It's amazing to see how people give to change a child's life forever!
If you'd like to help me reach my goal of $1000, please send a check or money order to Grace Church, 7060 Berry Road, Zephyrhills Fl 33540 attn: Orphan Ministry and I will send one check at the end of May to Grace Haven Ministries. You can also give directly to GHM by going to their site
http://gracehavenhome.com/?page_id=4 and write in the box that it is for Patricia and please say you are from my blog...I really want to met the goal for this month:) We are at $610 so far!
My heart is filled with gratitude to all who have already given to change these three children's lives....having had the honor to get to know the girls and to walk the hall of the mental institution these children lived in....makes me REALLY feel gratitude to all who have given and will give... You really have no idea what these little ones faced. Right now they have all been put back in orphanages BUT if they were not adopted, they would age out and go right back to a mental institution for the rest of their lives....
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
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Tonight Cephas (aka Maxium) and Lucia are HOME~ http://kacirek.blogspot.com/ read their story. It took TEN LONG weeks but they are home! Thank God and thank you all for your prayers and giving! They were also in our girls' instiution and now to know they are home...it thrills my heart! God places the lonely in families....
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So for a bit of a Clanton update.....
Selah continues to do awesome. We are all still in amazement at this dramatic change in her. So very thankful to see her so relaxed and all her numbers nice and low. Today I gave her a bath and blow dried her hair. She kept lifting her head up while I was drying it, totally on her own. She didn't really care for the blow dryer but if I did that every day, it would give her plenty of neck exercise!
Her physical therapist got 90% range of motion in each leg and 100% everywhere else:) We are really speechless except to say "Thank you God" for this change!
Sam seems fine now, his eye doesn't seem to be bothering him at all. It looks awful but he keeps it closed most of the time. I don't think it will look like there is an eyeball anymore even after it heals, since the iris was taken out when he had the orginal operation.
Today I got to go out to lunch with my friend, she was making fun of me with my magnifying glass:) but it was dark in there! LOL I got some thrift store time in and bought a set of Pyrex I don't use anything with aluminium in it anymore so all my stuff is glass or ceramic including my pans. I do have a few pots that are stainless steel that my aunt used so you know they are very old! I also found a pair of SKORTS my fav type of outfit!
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I feel I have alot to be grateful for tonight....my kids are all well, Selah is better than ever, and two children are home from their institution and three more have a family.....my heart is filled with thanksgiving!
Yvonne, we are coming down to St. Pete the end of June so if there is any little item you need or want from CNY, we'd be glad to bring it. No need to publish this comment, but I just wanted to let you know.
ReplyDeleteI know that menu! Kokopellis. Loooove the fried green tomatoes. Or as josiah calls em gamatos
ReplyDeleteYou are right:) and I had soem fried green tomatoes too!
DeleteI'm still praying for a gag reflex and coughing. Are we past that now? Is there a "next" thing I should be asking for? I am also praying lots of thank yous for her general health and accomplishments this past week. It makes me so happy to hear she is doing so well. And as always I thank God for your ability to grow and change as you go through this time. You are awesome!
ReplyDeleteThank you! She still doesn't have a big gag reflex nor does she cough much. We'd love to see that increase! Thanks for the prayers!!!!
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