rejoice in the Lord ...he is good.....his mercy endures forever!

My post is one of thanksgiving.......Today, we began sharing our heart and burden for orphans with the school that is part of our congregation (Central Academy at Lake Park)....It was an honor and a priviledge to talk to teens who love the Lord and to share a word with them about God's love for Orphans....Our friend Ellen, introduced us(the Wards and the Slu's) to the administration there and opened the door for us to speak to the teens about what is really important.......How God has redeemed us.....and ransomed us and given us new life...ADOPTED us into his family.....and how we can now be called sons and daughters of God....Adoption is a big deal to our heavenly father....Some statistics that we shared with them are that there are 143,000 Orphans in the World...if 7% of Chrsitians would adopt there would be NO MORE ORPHANS.......that every 18 seconds another child is orphaned.....LEFT ALONE......that God did not leave us as Orphans but he said he would come to us.......He knows we would not know how to take care of ourselves.....so he is our Heavenly Father and he is with us (Emmanuel)...adopted sons and daughters of the most high!!!!!!!!........We pray that the kids that we spoke to will ponder the statistics and think about what it might be like if they cried and noone came.....they were hungry and no one was there to feed them......thirsty...again, noone.......We are so excited to share this message with others....and to be able to play a part in traveling this road to adopt an ORPHAN OF GOD.....Please continue to pray with us....We are blessed to be able to share this process with you and as you pray for us......pray for the orphans!!!!!  Love, Traci.........Galatians "2:10 "All that we ask is that we should all continue to remember the poor, the very thing I, Paul, was eager to do..."