10 Months!

My gorgeous little baby doll is 10 months old today! Time goes so fast...hard to believe that he will be 1 soon. He now says mama, can feed himself finger foods, crawls everywhere, pulls himself up to stand and "cruises" along furniture, has 4 teeth, loves to be outside, and is such a delight! Thank You, God, for blessing us with this beautiful little boy.

September 25, 2016

Quintin Bennett

Save the Date!!!

What: Metekle Ethiopian Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction

When: Saturday, November 5, 2016

Doors open and auction starts at 5:30, dinner at 6:00

Where: Latty Apostolic Christian Fellowship Hall 

12867 Road 82, Paulding, OH 45879

Help us give impoverished children the gift of an education! 

             

Lately...

I witnessed this gorgeous sunrise from my front porch. One of God's masterpieces, for sure!

 My little mountain-mover. (His shirt says, "One day I will move mountains.")

We received updated photos of Metekle school in Mekele, Ethiopia! This is the school for which we raised the money for a second story. We traveled there in June and helped work on it! :) They are coming along nicely, and should be finished soon. Meanwhile, we have started fundraising to add a 3rd and final story to the school. Our project website can be found here: http://allgodschildren.org/get-involved/metekle-primary-school-in-ethiopia/

A hot air balloon visited our neighborhood.

My lovely husband brought me some DeBrand's chocolates one night. Yum!!! My all-time favorites are the milk-chocolate covered raspberries.

 Malia is always writing me encouraging little notes. Love that girl!

We finally finished our bathroom project!

We made another visit to Sauder's Village...gotta make good use of the membership, you know!

 

Little guy has been getting around all over the place.

Keep praying for Tom! He only has $17,214 of the needed $42,000 for his emergency life-saving surgery. The donations have stalled out over the last week, but the poor guy is really sick. Please help us spread the word! Thanks so much!
http://allgodschildren.org/get-involved/toms-emergency-medical-fund/

Keep Praying!!!

*Please see my last post for more details.

Tom's emergency medical fund has grown to almost $10,000 of the needed $42,000! Thank you for your support! Tom is very appreciative...below is a letter written by my friend, Almaz (the former director of the transition home in Addis Ababa where Jalen and Jordan lived):

"Dear friends, 
Tom is feeling encouraged, inspired and feeling your prayers for sure. Tome often comes for meal and to see the twins as he just loves little ones. The twins were entertaining Tom with their dressing up and my boy wanted to be like his sister so he decided to wear mama’s bathing suite. And they not even four but they know Tom is sick and mama has so much paper that she calls Tom medical paper and they cannot write on them.. So every time he comes, they ask him, “Are you ok now” And he says yes and then they giggle with joy.” This Sunday they were cracking him with their dressing up. 

I want to pass on his gratitude to each one of you who have given or/and been praying for him. When he was here for dinner on Sunday, he said to me, “How can I even thank all these people? I don’t even know all their names?” And he went on, “Do you think, we will have new names in heaven?” That was big question for me. Anyways, I just want to add my thank you and also to ask if you would please continue to pray, share his needs to your friends and families on his behalf as we are still long way to go. It would be shame to get thus far and be stuck. Thank you for hearing and moving!"

http://allgodschildren.org/get-involved/toms-emergency-medical-fund/http://allgodschildren.org/get-involved/toms-emergency-medical-fund/