There are only 29 days until the due date of our son. That still sounds so crazy to say! We all know how due dates can go. I already had Jenna by this time in my pregnancy so we are trying to be as ready as we can for the call to go. Our hearts and minds feel like they are spinning with excitement, details and also the reality that our family will be different from here on out. Jenna will no longer be the center of attention which I’m so thankful for and also a little sad at times. Not a bad sad though. We have prayed a long time for a second child and Jenna has too. She started asking for a brother or sister since she could talk. She even has a calendar to cross off the days because she asks every day if today is the day we get to bring baby brother home.

Okay, now I have to go. There is much to do and I’m sitting here doing a blog post instead of being productive. Did I mention there are only 29 days left!!!!

P.S. Please pray with us that the baby will be born between the 23rd-30th. We have housing set up for that time period and would be just lovely for it to fall into those dates 😉 And you can pray for all the other stuff that goes along with babies and adoption. Thanks friends!

I’ve been asked to blog about Orphan Care from time to time. I have a huge heart for this but also know that there are a million things going on and a long list of things to care about or take care of on my own home front. But I ask you to read through this and if nothing else pray for the Orphans of the world, near and far. They are in your backyard too.

Here are some things that were shared in a recent Press Release about Orphan Sunday:

“Orphan Sunday calls the Church to make the Gospel visible,” said Jedd Medefind, President of the Christian Alliance for Orphans. “When Christians open their hearts and homes in adoption, foster care and global orphan ministry, we mirror the God who did the same for us.”

The 2010 campaign aims for more than 2,000 events across America the weekend of November 7, 2010 calling Christians to adoption, foster care and global orphan ministry.

The website www.orphansunday.org serves as a hub for the campaign, offering event ideas, downloadable materials and ways individuals can partner with orphan-serving ministries to hold local events. The site also contains a map of the country that will highlight local events nationwide as they are scheduled.

There are more than 500,000 children in the foster system in the U.S. today, with nearly 130,000 waiting to be adopted. Globally, an estimated 15 million children have lost both parents. The Orphan Sunday campaign invites Christians to be God’s answer to these needs. As the 2010 Orphan Sunday video puts it, “We set the lonely in families because God set us in His.”

So have you ever seen this done in your church? What can YOU do? Pray, support an orphaned child,  join the facebook group or maybe help set up the Orphan Sunday in your church.

“The need of orphans is so vast that no government, no nonprofit can overcome it,” said Jodi Jackson Tucker, national coordinator for the Orphan Sunday campaign. “There’s only one potential source of the love, nurture and belonging that every orphan most needs: that’s the Church.”

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