Below is a story from Jim Kramer of the Mid Atlantic Orphan Care Coalition, from their blog:
Greetings Saints!!
Two years ago we asked our supporters to pray as MAOCC was forming and putting together our first 50 Churches/50 Children program with the goal of 50 churches committing to pray for 50 orphans from our area and around the world during November, National Adoption Month. Each church would commit to pray for five children with the goal of ten churches praying for each child and growing the ministry from there.
This is one of many incredible testimonies of what God has done through those prayers as we begin our third year of 50 Churches/50 Children this November.
When the first Sunday in November 2008 arrived, the first child our home church children’s group prayed for was a little boy named Adam from China. We handed his picture out and prayed for him. Watch out when children pray! A day or so later, one of the children’s parents contacted me. It seemed their daughter, Abby, felt God wanted them to adopt Adam from China. They asked for prayer. A few months later, Beth again asked for prayer; you see, there was this little girl in several of Adam’s pictures – they were calling her Megan. Again, we prayed.
This past Sunday, Abby moved up to my Sunday School Class and the children prayed for her, Adam Jiujiu, and Megan Yanmei. You see, as this is being written, Adam, Beth, and Abby Smith are at the airport preparing to leave for China where they will meet Adam Jiujiu and Megan Yanmei and bring these precious children home to be with them! Love those Godincidences!
I encourage you to go to their blog to read a letter from Beth’s mother about Adam and Megan; Kleenexes needed. beth-waitingforadam.blogspot.com – it’s as moving as anything you’ll ever read.
On the first Sunday in November 2010, when we again focus as a church on 50 Churches/50 Children, the first child our church prayed for, Adam, will be with us as a part of our Bible Fellowship Church in Newark along with Megan, with more on the way! As a direct result of prayer and God using the 50 Churches/50 Children outreach, Adam and Megan now have a forever family.
If your church is not involved in our 50 Churches/50 Children outreach, please prayerfully consider having your church join us in ministering to and providing forever families for these very precious children.
You can learn more by exploring our website and you can sign your church up here, or feel free to contact me; I would be more than happy to talk with you.
Have a great day with Jesus. We can’t wait to see what God does next!
Until Every Child Knows,
Jim and Karen Kramer
Matt. 19:14
James 1:27
