Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

At Children of the Promise, we have many children with special needs in our care.  We love and cherish these kids and feel so privileged to get to love on them and to take care of them every day.
We hope that each one of these children with special needs will catch the heart of a forever family.

One of these kids is an amazing little guy, B.  I first met B in the summer of 2014.  He was a patient at the hospital in Port Au Prince, Bernard Mevs, where I was volunteering.  B's life hadn't gotten off to an easy start.  At nine-months-old he had already endured a great deal of medical and family struggles.  But B was a happy little guy.  Always the charmer, he loved to give out smiles and had many friends at the hospital.

Several months later, my friend Jess and I returned to Haiti.  Little B was still at the hospital.  We couldn't believe how much he had grown, we almost didn't recognize him at first!  We were excited that B was finally going to get to leave the hospital and to go live at Children of the Promise.  He said goodbye to his many friends at Bernard Mevs, took his first airplane ride with us, and arrived at his new home at COTP.

I was so excited for B to come live at COTP.  I knew he would be well cared for.  He would be loved.  He would be prayed for.  He would be advocated for.   

It's so fun to watch B grow and flourish here. He has the greatest smile, loves to clap his hands, and nothing makes him happier than hearing you call his name or yelling "bravo".  I'm glad B is at a place where he can receive such loving, individualized care.  But this is not what I want for him, this isn't what any of us want for him.  We long for B to have a forever family to call his own, a day when he will no longer call this orphanage his home.  

So what can you do for B?  Consider adoption.  Kids with special needs aren't scary, they are fearfully and wonderfully made.  If you met B, I don't think you'd see his special needs first, you'd just see an amazingly beautiful little boy.  A little boy who needs a family.  A little boy who is made in the image of our creator.  Could you be B's forever family? 

Until B has a family of his own would you consider sponsoring him?  It's expensive to house a special needs child.  Trips to the hospital, medication, and equipment are some of the major expenses.  With about half of the children in our care having special needs, this is a substantial amount of money each month.  Sponsorship is the biggest way to continue to cover this cost.  In fact, it takes about 12 individuals giving $35/month to fully cover the cost for just ONE child.  As always, it's not all about money here.  A sponsorship partnership at COTP is about prayer, advocacy, and relationship.  When choosing to sponsor a child with special needs, you begin a relationship with them.  You are saying to them, "I love you.  I will support you.  I may not be able to adopt you into my family, but I will fight for you.  I will tell people here about you and pray for you daily."  Won't you consider doing this for B?  For more info, email me courtneyirwin@gmail.com.

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. -James 1:27

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