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Brownies

Nadia famously spit out her first bite of chocolate cake at the birthday party Nonni had (where is the video Nonni?) and so I made a vanilla cake on her actual birthday and she really liked it.

Today I have been baking for a Christmas party we are going to tonight. Once the brownies had cooled I offered Nadia a bite since it had been awhile since she had some chocolate baked goods. She promptly spit it out into her hand, used the other hand to get the crumb off her mouth and took off running. Where she proceeded to smear the spit out brownie on the door of the refrigerator.  I hope the people at the party don’t react like that to the brownies 🙂

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Thankful Thursday

Jessica, Nadia and Louanne

Sorry that I missed last week, but I was THANKFUL for the photo above. My dear friend Jessica and her husband Randy came down for the company Christmas party on Saturday. So Nadia, Jessica and I got to spend Thursday and Friday running around having a great time and eating delicious food. We set a record and saw each other 3 times this year. WOO HOO!!!

  • For Randy and Jessica’s visit and the fun party that the company put on.
  • For all the KIDS HOPE USA volunteers at our church that help me make this such and awesome program. I would be useless without them and I am grateful for their time and energy put into these at-risk children.
  • For Tarrant Net and all their work to reach out to people in our area. It’s a coalition of churches and community groups that are really reaching out to the people around us.
  • For Darwin mentioning Nadia in his sermon this week – even though it brought me to tears (in a good way). Listen to the podcast here: http://www.fortworthpca.org . It’s the December 2nd sermon and you can download it on the right hand side of the home page.
  • For the World Vision “Step into Africa- AIDS exhibit” that was hosted here at the Potters House last week. We went on opening day and thought it was a compelling view of the AIDS pandemic facing our world. It does a great job of making it real by viewing the pandemic through the eyes of children. To see if it’s coming to a church in your area go here: http://www.worldvisionexperience.org/ Click on tour dates to find out where it will travel to next.
  • For Nadia’s sweet smile. It melts our hearts each day to see that this wonderful child is in our family. We are continually grateful to God for His wonderful gift He has entrusted to us.
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World AIDS Day 2007

  

 If you are already a World Vision sponsor thank you SO MUCH for your giving to help children around the world who are in need.

Today is World AIDS day and World Vision has been working tirelessly to help the orphans of the AIDS pandemic that is sweeping across Africa. Most of you know that I volunteer as a Child Ambassador for World Vision. God has blessed us that we are able to sponsor 5 children around the globe and being a Child Ambassador gives me the opportunity to share with even more people about these precious children. The numbers are staggering and we can’t give up on saving this generation. Each day 6,000 children are orphaned to the AIDS pandemic. That’s 2.5 million new orphans every year. Globally 61% of the people who die from AIDS are women.

The little girl above is from Swaziland where an entire generation of middle age people has been wiped off the face of the earth. In Swaziland the life expectancy has dropped to 36 years old. 40% of the population in Swaziland is HIV positive and there are 80,000 AIDS orphans. 

I ask you to stop and think about that for a moment. It’s not just numbers. Each number represents a child. These children are not worth any less because they live in Africa or Haiti or India. The biggest problem is that these children do not live in countries like America that are filled with social services and programs for the poverty stricken.

In many countries in Africa an ENTIRE generation of adults has been decimated by the disease.  Below is the information of 10 children’s picture folders that I just received. These children are not available to be sponsored through any other way than through me.  The link above will take you to the photos of all the children listed below. If you want further details about the child, just post here or email me for the information. For $35 a month you can make a difference in the life of one of these children and their community by partnering with other sponsors here in America. You can always go to my personal World Vision web page and do a search for children from other countries. http://worldvision.dwimble.com/

I have not done this post to make anyone feel guilty, but just to ask you to pray today for all the people around the world suffering from the AIDS pandemic. On a global level it’s the children that are suffering the most due to the actions of their parents and other adults around them. And I ask you to consider sponsoring one of these children. Either for your family or in honor of someone else this Christmas season.

  1. Owethu from Swaziland. Female. DOB October 22, 2005. She lives with her mother and has no siblings.  She is in satisfactory health.

  2. Sakhile from Swaziland. Male. DOB July 4, 2005. He is an orphan who lives with relatives and his siblings. He is in satisfactory health.

  3. Amani from Kenya. Male. DOB December 1, 2000. He is an orphan who lives with relatives and his siblings. He is in satisfactory health.

  4. Stephanie from Haiti. Female.  *now sponsored :)*

  5. Aluncedo from South Africa. Female. DOB October 25, 1999. She is an orphan who lives with her grandmother and sister. She is in satisfactory health.

  6. Geraldo from Mozambique. Male. DOB March 7, 1999. He lives with his father and siblings and is in good health.

  7. Aphelele from South Africa. Male. DOB January 4, 2001. He lives with his mother and sisters. He is in satisfactory health.

  8. Telma Jorge from Mozambique. Female. DOB July 7, 1998. She lives with her parents and siblings. She is in satisfactory health.

  9. Longelech from Kenya. Female. DOB October 9, 2001. She lives with her parents and siblings. She is in satisfactory health.

  10. Gemechu from Ethiopia. Male. DOB January 1, 2004. He lives with his parents and sister. He is in satisfactory health.

Stephanie Longelech Geraldo Albino  Â