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Lion girl (Taken with instagram)
Friends (Taken with instagram)
I am really excited about the launch of ABBA Canada! Our passion is to see a movement of adoption and orphancare grounded in the gospel spread across the land, impacting the children in need of family here and among the nations.
Over the years I have had the humbling privilege of a front row seat to the story God is writing for the orphan around the world. It is amazing to watch the incredible things happening in the church for the orphan in the US, the Ukraine, Ethiopia, Australia, and now Canada.
One common thread that God is using to awaken His people is a realization that we “visit orphans in their affliction” because Christ first visited us in our affliction (James 1:27) It is a gospel issue. It is the visible gospel.
Please join me in praying for God to do more than we can ask or imagine for His glory in the church in Canada and around the world in the declaration and demonstration of the gospel for the sake of the orphan.
A letter from your future son-in-law -
This is an excerpt from the letter sent from Adoniram Judson (missionary to Burma for 42 years) to John Hasseltine, the father of Ann, the woman Judson wished to marry.
“I have now to ask whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring, to see her no more in this world? whether you can consent to her departure to a heathen land, and her subjection to the hardships and sufferings of a missionary life? whether you can consent to her exposure to the dangers of the ocean; to the fatal influence of the southern climate of India; to every kind of want and distress; to degradation, insult, persecution, and perhaps a violent death? Can you consent to all this, for the sake of Him who left His heavenly home and died for her and for you; for the sake of perishing, immortal souls; for the sake of Zion and the glory of God? Can you consent to all this, in hope of soon meeting your daughter in the world of glory, with a crown of righteousness brightened by the acclamations of praise which shall redound to her Saviour from heathens saved, through her means, from eternal woe and despair?” (Courtney Anderson, To the Golden Shore (New York: Little, Borwn, 1956), 83.)
[HT: ericbancroft)
Everything You Want to Know and More about the Adoption Tax Credit
These two have so much fun together (Taken with instagram)
Nothing like fresh beans (Taken with instagram)
It’s the little things…like rolling all the windows down (Taken with instagram)