So, it has begun. Four other bloggers (So Far) and I, have each taken a day of the week, to display a kid who needs to be adopted in a bad way.  Each kid you see on my site has been waiting at least six months!

Our prayer while we do this, is some hearts will be changed and more children will be sponsored because of this.

Name:          Maricielo Medina Martinez
Birthday:      August 11, 2003    Age: 5
Gender:        Female
Region:        South America
Country:      Peru
Program:      Forjadores de Esperanza Student Center

Personal and Family Information:
Maricielo lives with her father and her mother. Her duties at home include running errands. There are 3 children in the family. Her father is sometimes employed as a laborer and her mother maintains the home.

For fun, Maricielo enjoys playing house, playing with dolls and hide-and-seek. She attends church activities regularly and is in pre-school where her performance is average.

Your love and support will help Maricielo to receive the assistance she needs to develop her potential. Please pray for her.

To adopt please click her picture or click here

She has been Sponsored!  Thank you to whoever you are!  This is just amazing!

Any other day of the week, find more children to sponsor by the list below!  Together, I believe we can make a difference.

• Toby Keathley – Monday
• Andy McMahon | Crucial Encounter – Tuesday
• caffeinatedfaith – Wednesday
• shawnw.org – Thursday
• Andrea | Shalom  Existence – Friday

So.  Lately I have been thinking and praying about how the Internet is mostly viewed as an addiction, a breeding grounds for bad things to happen, or a place to feed a separate addiction.  It’s a really sad world, full of addictions, and I wonder, what can be done?

It’s depressing.  Most people I know either have, or know someone who has an Internet addiction of some sort.  The thing is, there are JUST as many, if not more sites out there that can actually be used for good.  I hope to compile a list of links, to help you, or a friend through Internet addiction, or even links that might help tie up your time while you are online, so you don’t get drawn to the bad things.

I have been blessed to have never gotten into internet pornography, (Too many other things I was addicted to I guess) but a friend of mine, and the Pastor of the new church starting in January, The Courageous Church, did have a struggle with pornography, and blogged about it. (How Courageous!)

He not only blogged about it, but also did post some great tips and links that are relevant, not only to pornography addiction, but all addictions as far as I’m concerned!  Check his post out here! I hope this helps anyone searching for help, or seeking guidance.  Please do not hesitate to ask me, or contact Shaun.  That is what we are here for.  Ask for help!

please.

A new start, a chance at all.  Those are things I believe everyone deserves.  That is why I am joining this movement.

Compassion International exists as a Christian child advocacy ministry that releases children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enables them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults.

Founded by the Rev. Everett Swanson in 1952, Compassion began providing Korean War orphans with food, shelter, education and health care, as well as Christian training.

Today, Compassion helps more than 1 million children in 24 countries.

Starting tomorrow, I will be posting one child a week. (Every Tuesday) This child has gone AT LEAST six months without being adopted.  With the amount of people in this country, this should not happen!

Me, and a few other people are each taking a day, to post a child, in hopes that someone, somewhere, will be touched, and adopt.  I hope you can be that person.

Other people who are doing this are,

Toby on Mondays
caffeinatedfaith on Wednesdays
Shawn on Thursdays
Andrea on Fridays

Check them out, and sponsor one.

Well, I will say that this weekend has been really weird.  For anyone who has been keeping up, I think it is official that the pains I was/am having are indeed Gall Stones.  My wonderful fiance did do A LOT of research, and find a way to break them down and pass them without surgery.  Which I am very grateful for!

The solution she found appears to be working, and we think with one more phase, I should be good as gold!

On another note, Toby and I have been doing some behind the scenes creative brainstorming, and I am very excited to say that I think we have come up with some really awesome things.  I hope to have him do some writing on this page for me at some point in time.

More to come this week!  I am constantly learning more about myself and Jesus Christ and I can’t wait to share about all of it.

IF you need some reading to do, Don’t forget to check out my Fiance and Toby!

Ok.  So I am learning so much about being engaged, and I am sure I will learn TONS more after getting married.  So here it is.  Rules of Engagement part 3.

****Disclaimer****

I do not “get in trouble” for these things I am talking about.  I write only about the cute little quirks, and things I didn’t realize would be so difficult during an engagement, or while planning a wedding.  I want to say Andrea is OVERLY awesome about the whole ordeal, and is very understanding about my cluelessness of planning something like this.

She is your fiance NOT your girlfriend.

Yes, I said it.  She is your fiance.  There is NO excuse for calling her otherwise.  You cannot say, “I’m sorry love, I am still getting used to it”, or “It’s just a habit”  And definitely don’t say something like, “Sometimes, I just forget.”  These are all logical things, that really could happen, even to the best engaged man in the world but remember, to a woman, this is a VERY important step, and something she has waited for her entire life.  (Men have too, we are just more hard headed)

Basically, you made the decision to propose.  You want to spend the rest of your life with her.  Learn to call her your fiance.

As for me, I am sure just as I am getting used to calling her my fiance, we’ll be married, and I pray to God that on our honeymoon, I don’t introduce my new wife as “my fiance”.  Pray with me.