Missions

And then he told them, "Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone." Mark 16:15

What do you think of when you think missions or missionaries? Maybe people in other countries handing out Bibles and praying for the people of that country. Maybe a group of teens visiting another country and helping hold babies, build schools, or paint orphanages. Do you ever think of missionary or missions and think the adoptive family down the street with a little United Nations in their home?

During the wait I have had a lot of time to think. Lately I have been thinking about missions. It's pretty much the norm at churches to support missions. Some churches have a board full of pictures of places and people they support each month. Since not everyone can be a missionary churches and people feel the best way to help is to give their money and prayers to the missionaries. I think that is great! Really awesome. I know I can't go to Africa and show the gospel to them. But I would love to help someone who is there who can do that.

Then I started thinking.....adoption is a lot like missions and missionaries. How many times have you heard "Well I can't adopt because..." And sometimes it is followed up with a "but I would love to help you." That's so cool. Those people get it. I can't adopt 5 more kids who desperately need money for shoes, food, and school but I can sponsor them and their families in their countries. Missions.

What if the church thought about adoptive families as missionaries. Missionaries to the least of these. The hurt and the lost, the broken, the sick, the ones with special needs. Adoptive parents are taking missions to a whole other level. They are financing a child who needs a family and raising the ransom, going into the country and bringing home the child to care for them as their own. They take on their medical costs and needs, their food costs, their dental cost, their pain, their hurt, they take it on as their own and raise up a child who has heard about the love of Jesus and felt it through these families.

Every month there are new bills that come up and more issues they had not been aware of prior. Every day they are there through the good and the bad. They deal with the hurt these children have gone through. They hold them as they cry uncontrollably for the loss they suffered. They express their pain through acting out or hurting themselves and yet the family stays. The parents clean up the vomit and bile, they stay with them through every surgery, they pray over them as they sleep and hold them as they wake from nightmares. They never get a day off. 24/7 they are there in the trenches and front lines. It is often times a thankless job, but that one smile or one word the non verbal child spoke, or the first bite of food the child takes by mouth or the first steps they take even if they are 14 years old, that....that makes it all worth it and they can do it again the next day.

So what would it be like if churches thought of adoptive families as missionaries? People in the church who can not adopt would step up and say "I will pray for you daily." Others would offer financial support. Maybe a small token each month to say, "we can't imagine doing what you do but we appreciate you for doing it and for obeying the call God has set on your life, here is some money we hope it helps." Maybe offering babysitting services one night a week or a dinner one day.

I really believe if the body of Christ saw adoptive parents as missionaries then no one would have to fundraise 24 hrs a day for a year trying to raise the ransom for their child to come home. They could focus on therapies and on doctors appointments and attaching and caring for all the other children without the heaviness of trying to make sure all the money was there. We would have strong families who are being built up through the daily prayers of the church. After the airport we could have wonderful cooks from the church step up with ready made dinners to ease the burden of the jet lagged mama who just came home with number 8 and the over worked daddy who had to go back to work so he wouldn't lose pay. Yes. I believe that would be a world I would like to live in.

Adoption isn't for everyone, but it is a ministry commanded by God for some of us to take on. When we follow that call and it gets crazy and life gets hard and weird we shouldn't hear," you chose this now you deal with it!" We should see open arms coming to hug us saying, "how can I help you?"

Please consider helping an adopting family today. You don't have to give money sometimes all they need is an ear to listen to them.

Be blessed

Ways to help

Recycle fundraiser: http://www.fundingfactory.com/goals/?id=beckfamily

Restaurant.com $50 for $20:  http://coupaide.com/beck-adoption-fundraiser

Tax deductible donations:  http://reecesrainbow.org/36043/sponsorbeck

General donations:  https://www.wepay.com/donations/EE-adoption

Avon fundraiser:  http://rbeck.avonrepresentative.com/online_event/view.php?rep_spnsr_evnt_id=400293

Scentsy fundraiser:  https://memorablearomas.scentsy.us/Scentsy/Home

Recycle Fundraiser

Want to help us out without spending a dime? We need folks who have old printer cartridges, cell phones, mp3 players, ipods, computers, etc. to send them in for credit toward our adoption. Hit up your friends, family, church, local businesses and ask them for theirs too!  Click HERE for a list of eligible items and how much they will bring in.

Here's how to help:

1. Gather all of your items and all your friend's items. (let us know if you would like some flyers or posters to hang up somewhere)

2. Send them / give them to us or go to our Funding Factory Page Here and print a FREE shipping label to send in your items.

3.  Watch our goal go up!

4.  Find more stuff to recycle and send it in too!

Simple as that.  Those old electronics just sitting around gathering dust could help 2 boys come home!

I am getting to the other side!

Do you know the story in the Bible when Jesus was sleeping on the boat and the storm came?

Mark 4: 35-38
35 That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” 36 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. 37 A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. 38 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”

Here's the thing, God told Jesus to go to the other side. So Jesus knew He was going to get to the other side. His Daddy said it, He believed it so He went to sleep,on a pillow. He could sleep because He knew no matter what God told Him he was getting to the other side. When the waves and winds came He slept soundly because He trusted his Father. It was the disciples who feared. So He got up and told them to "knock it off"(AVB- Ashlee version Bible).

Over a year ago God told Paul that Misha and Judah were our sons. He answered very specific prayers I had prayed. Lately I have felt discouraged. Satan came in and put doubt in my mind, got me distracted and I was letting him make me feel discouraged. So and so went through the process just to hit a major road block and not get their child. What if I wasn't called to adopt them and I went head first into this and they aren't mine and I don't get to bring them home? How come these people got their signatures and dates so fast and I haven't? The money isn't coming in that means we really aren't suppose to adopt them or else it would be coming in. We haven't found a van yet. We can't bring them home from the airport without a van. That must be a sign.

DISTRACTED!

Satan was putting these things in my head to distract me. to discourage me.To take my focus off what it should be on and to get me to quit, cause here's the thing, satan has already been defeated. Do you get that!? God won! Jesus won! Nothing can change that. The devil is a stinkin liar who IS DEFEATED! So the only way he can win is if I quit. Guess what? I'm not gonna! I was told to go to the other side. I will get to the other side!


Devil, you are a liar. My God said they were mine so they are mine! Because my God said "My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips." I told my boys I would not leave them as orphans and my God will not leave them as orphans! I am getting to the other side because my God said it. "so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." I will not grow weary in doing good because I know that all things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose! I can do ALL THINGS through CHRIST who gives me strength! You will not keep them in darkness they will come him. They will come to the light. They will praise the One who made them! My children will know the love of their Father. You may think I am weak, you may want me to think I am weak and a nobody but I am child of the Living God! I am a princess and my Daddy is king! Don't mess with His princess! Don't mess with His children. We are getting to the other side!
My God shall supply all my needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus!
"the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence, and the violent take it by force!" I'm not intimidated by the defeated! I'm not lukewarm! God is with me then who should I fear? I will go to sleep and sleep soundly because God will work this all out. I will get my signature! I will get my court date! The money will come! The van will be available! Why? Because my Daddy said so!

Good night!

Be blessed

I can't lose if I don't give up

I admit it today I had a defeatist attitude. I cried out to God. I can't do this! I can't. What can't I do? Wait. Seriously, I can't. I want what I want and I want it now! Like Veruca Salt from Willie Wonka.

Oh how I would not like to have been Abraham or Sarah. All those years, waiting, praying, thinking about if they truly believed The Lord or simply just heard wrong. Then trying it their way, if God won't do it right now maybe He wants us to figure out how to do it ourselves. Finally getting to the age where they thought it just wasn't ever gonna happen. Oh the lessons I learn from my Bible and the people in it.

How many times have I tried over and over again, almost panicked, to get things done fast and my way. No matter how fast I did them God still had a perfect time. I could not speed that up. He wasn't mad at me. I wasn't not as good as this person over here who got their children really quickly. He had a time for me. He HAS a time for me.

Just like Abraham and Sarah, Paul and I were given a promise. Misha and Judah are our children. God ask us to adopt them. He didn't mean for me to go at it alone. He said, "you can't fail if you don't give up."

So I am going to do something hard. Something out of character for me. I am going to wait. I'm going to enjoy my family of 8 until the day comes when we become a family of 10. I'm going to pray everyday for my boys and for their safety. God loves them and He has shown me they are safe.

The moment you get discouraged the devil has you right where he wants you.
If I don't quit I can't fail!! I won't be discouraged. I am too blessed to be discouraged.

I also know this is a spiritual battle so my focus will now be in the Spiritual. God says in all things pray in the Spirit. Eph. 6: 18 Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere. So that's just what I will do and the money for the adoption will come and the court date will come too and you know what? My boys are coming home because God ordained it. I believe it!

Be blessed

Can you help?

We would like to make another payment to our action agency. We only owe 2000.00 to the agency and then we have to pay for travel. At any time we could get our court date and so we need to have this paid off. There are several ways to help.

http://www.wepay.com/donations/Bulgaria-adoption

We also have the 50.00 gift card for 20.00 we have to sell 10 before they send a check out and we have not yet. We all eat so that is a great deal. You don't have to use it all at once either.


http://coupaide.com/beck-adoption-fundraiser (please note, if you are taken to another family's page after registering, please come back here and click the link again to make sure you are buying from

You can even make a tax deductible donation to our adoption here

http://reecesrainbow.org/36043/sponsorbeck


When we reach our goal of 10,000. (Travel costs and agency fees) we will be fully funded. I would love for nothing more than to stop fundraising lol. Please help us bring our boys home. Be His hands and feet. God will bless you for it.


Be blessed