About Us

What would possess the parents of four little girls who are busy working, teaching, raising children, training for ministry... just trying to serve faithfully in life... to make arrangements to leave their children at home, take vacation time, board an airplane for a foreign land, travel to some place without the creature comforts of American life, and take care of some orphans in the middle of Africa? Well, actually, that is a pretty easy question to answer.

Primarily, we are motivated by one thing... by the deep love of our God. If we who were dead in sin, have truly been rescued from death and new life has been breathed into our frame... If we who were hopelessly lost and desperately in need of grace, have truly been pardoned of our sin and made sons and daughters, co-heirs with Christ, our Savior... how could we not then be stirred by what seems to be a clear call to obedience?

In John 14:18 Jesus says, “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” These are profound words and have been speaking powerfully to us of God's care both for physical and spiritual orphans. It reminded us of James 1:27, which indicates that, "religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world."

It occurred to us that there was no context in our life where we were caring for orphans and as the opportunity for this trip came upon us, we realized that it was important for us to rectify this. Not only do we desire to be obedient when we see clear directives in God's Word, but we also desire to model this for our children. This trip seemed to be a clear context for both of these things.

Another aspect that brought this to the forefront of our thought and consideration is adoption. We strongly believe that God has been calling us to adopt children for years, even before we had our own. When we quickly found ourselves blessed with four little ones, we realized that we should begin looking forward to what adoption would look like for our family.

As this journey has progressed, we began looking toward Africa and seeing that this may indeed be where God is calling us to adopt. And interestingly, Uganda has been in our focus and on our hearts for the past year or so. You can imagine our surprise when this is precisely where our church was being asked to partner with the Baptist Children's Home and Family Services. After much prayer and consideration, we could no longer contest that this was something that we should not take part in.

This is only a brief glimpse at our story and we look forward to sharing more as we move closer to the trip.

We appreciate and greatly desire your prayers during this process.

Shayne and Christina
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