Mother’s Day

Last week we visited the Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit VIII conference and got a view of the power of orphan advocacy organizations coming together to support, envision, educate and inspire global care for the orphan.  It was an incredible conference and an honor to be there representing the work we are doing in Kenya. However, this conference greatly affected us and celebrating Mother’s Day a week later has surfaced a world of pain to the forefront of our eyes.  Mother’s Days in our past have been filled with cards for our moms, and brunches, and gifts and notes of love.  They have been filled with expectation and hope.  But this year with eyes newly opened on the enormity of the pain being felt by children in every country, in every town around the world who have lost, been taken from, abandoned by, or sent away from their mothers, Mother’s Day has a different feel. This Mother’s Day we have prayed for all the mother’s who don’t have their children to hold in their arms because they couldn’t feed them, all the mother’s who don’t have their children in their arms because they couldn’t afford to educate them, and all […]

Last week we visited the Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit VIII conference and got a view of the power of orphan advocacy organizations coming together to support, envision, educate and inspire global care for the orphan.  It was an incredible conference and an honor to be there representing the work we are doing in Kenya. However, this conference greatly affected us and celebrating Mother’s Day a week later has surfaced a world of pain to the forefront of our eyes.  Mother’s Days in our past have been filled with cards for our moms, and brunches, and gifts and notes of love.  They have been filled with expectation and hope.  But this year with eyes newly opened on the enormity of the pain being felt by children in every country, in every town around the world who have lost, been taken from, abandoned by, or sent away from their mothers, Mother’s Day has a different feel. This Mother’s Day we have prayed for all the mother’s who don’t have their children to hold in their arms because they couldn’t feed them, all the mother’s who don’t have their children in their arms because they couldn’t afford to educate them, and all […]