Jeremiah House - A Reality

Just off the LAMB BLOG...

JEREMIAH HOUSE HAS BEEN FUNDED  HOPE FOR TRANSITIONING ORPHANS FROM THE ORPHANAGE TO THE REAL WORLD!

Jenia was a success story that could have gone bad. Yet, after graduation - support from the LAMb team brought this young man to a place of interdependence and family connections. Jeremiah Project is designed to help others find the same success!

BREAKING NEWS ----- As most of you know - we have been moving toward opening our new project to help graduating orphans. Look at this!

1. We have rented an office/center for Jeremiah Drop In Center (see below the mission for this part of Jeremiah Project). This center is now being furnished and is operational at this time.

2. We HAVE JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT WE NOW HAVE THE FUNDS - on the way to purchase the JEREMIAH HOUSE! (see below for the mission for this part of the Jeremiah Project). We will be purchasing this home just as soon as the funds are transferred! We expect to be operational with the residential home soon.

3. AND we are not stopping there - NEXT is Jeremiah Steps! (see below for the mission for this part of the Jeremiah Project)

All our Kyrgyzstan staff are thrilled and ready to begin MAKING A DIFFERENCE ONE YOUTH AT A TIME!

FOR A COMPLETE EXPLANATION OF THIS EXCITING LIFE CHANGING PROGRAM JUST IN THE EARLY STAGES - VISIT THE LAMb BLOG   www.lambinternational.blogspot.com  

Maybe God is leading you to support this project both with your prayers and financially.  There isn't anything else close to it in any of the eastern block countries, perhaps anywhere in the world!

I was moved this morning when

Every morning within the first few moments of my day, I read the blogs of our team members - Lynn and Ruby Johnston and John and Julie Wright.  I am always touched by what they say, wishing we could be there experiencing their events alongside.  

This morning, however, I was moved at an even greater level.  Please read the Wrights blog - www.actofkindness.blogspot.com .   You will completely understand the "wow" behind this story.

In just about four weeks, we leave for our training trip to Kyrgyzstan and looking forward to it....blesssings, Jayne

DVD Series To Be Featured Friday on The 700 Club

We were just informed late last week, that the DVD series, Adoption/Foster Care Rx: Solutions for Wounded Families will be featured on The 700 Club on Friday.  Our hope and prayer for this series is that it will strengthen the journey for adoptive families, who followed the call to care for children with a traumatic history, will be equipped for the journey.

 

To watch a DVD promo - click on the picture above.

ADOPTION FOSTER RX

Thanks for all your support....we leave in 4 weeks for Kyrgyzstan!!!! Can't wait!

Check out www.lambinternational.blogspot.com and www.actofkindness.blogspot.com to see the exciting things that happen there every day!

Thinking Back - Looking Ahead

This next Sunday, David will have the privilege of speaking at the Lebanon, Ohio Countryside Church of the Nazarene.  I have had a sneak preview of his message for Sunday because I get to create the powerpoint for it.  He also asked me to show a video that we have had on our blog a couple of years ago.

Watching it this AM made me homesick for the beautiful people there.  LAMb's work is growing and making an impact in Kyrygzstan...one child, one family, one social worker at a time.  In July, a number of new exciting things will be hapenning, which I willl share later.

We return the first week of September for a three week, very full training schedule. We will be working with orphanage caregivers and social workers on understanding the needs of the traumatized child in their care.  We so appreciate your checking in on this blog from time to time. 

A Memory Moment

Here is the video we will be showing Sunday...it brings back so many memories.

“SUPPORT A TRAINING DAY” Make a Difference in the Care for Children Living in Orphanages

Why the need?
Do you remember the river?

 It is an analogy that our team in Kyrgyzstan uses to describe what we do.   Fondly, we have called John and Julie the “search and rescue team” at the end of the river.  They spend their every waking moment pulling kids “out of the river”, who have been thrown into chaos by neglect and abuse.  Also being pulled out of the river are single parents, homeless seniors and whomever else God places in our path.

Somewhere along the line, one of our team, either John, Julie, Lynn or Ruby, further developed that analogy as they described what the rest of us do while in country.   Lynn, Ruby, David and I work up the river, teaching and training adults how “not to throw the kids or the less fortunate in the river.”

This little fellow is growing up in a orphange in Kyrgyzstan. 

                              
Thousands of children are growing up in orphanages in Kyrgyzstan.  Their caregivers love and care for these children, but also manage emotional and behavioral issues without knowledge and training.  What do these children deserve?  They deserve to be cared for by adults who know what to do and how to do it.  The caregivers need the support that education and training will give them.

Lynn and Ruby have given tirelessly of their physical energy and selflessly of their financial resources in creating a training program for orphanage staff and other child welfare professionals in Kyrgyzstan.   It is greatly expanding. David and I will be going this fall and hoepfully next spring to help in the training effort there.  I asked Ruby recently, what would you think about having a “Support a Training Day” fund raiser.

Arugla, one of our team spends time with these four little fellows at a small orphanage in Tokmok

While in country, David and I will have a very full training schedule.  We will be training orphanage caregivers, psychologists, foster parents and relief staff on what trauma does to a child and more importantly what a “trauma competent HEALING caregiver” looks like.  

Here is our schedule:
September 5-7 – Youth facility workers managing the care of teens ages 15 and 15  SOS Children’s Village in Bishkek
September 10-12 – Karakol Orphanage - an orphanage about 5 hours from our home base.
September  12-15 – Foster parents at SOS Children’s Village – Bishkek
September 19-21  - SOS psychologist, staff and social workers , SOS Children’s Village

Would you consider helping to cover the costs related to training?   About  $50.00 a day will provide materials and resources  to those who impact the lives of orphans whose lives have been tragically disrupted by abuse, neglect and trauma. 

If you are interested, you can simply click on the donate button on the right and designate   “support for training.”

Turning to Kyrgyzstan

After a very full work schedule this spring, we are now in the process of finalizing plans to return to Kyrygzstan this September.  We will be sharing the details of this very targeted trip in the days ahead....it has to do with equipping those who care for children in orphanages.  We believe God has equipped us far beyond our expectations through our training experience in May with Dr. Karyn Purvis and her staff at the Child Institute of Development. 

More information coming.....thanks for caring and supporting....

Adoption Foster RX: Solutions for Wounded Familes

It began with a phone call 18 months ago from Terry Meeuwsen, co - host of The 700 Club.  "I have just finished reading a book called Wounded Children, Healing Homes and would like to talk with you and your husband about an idea," she said.  We met in Virigina Beach in January of 2011 and what resulted was a video teaching series for adoptive and foster families. 

This 7 session DVD, which features Dr. Karyn Purvis, Dr. Wendy Flowers, Michael and Amy Monroe along with David and me, can be used as a support group study or for individual families struggling with parenting children with a history of trauma.  To get more information about this DVD project, click on the link below the picture. 

                                                   http://www.orphanspromise.org/adoptiondvd/

We are so thankful to God for the opportunity to participate in this support tool for adoptive/foster families.