New family

This past Friday was one to write down in the history of Mattaw Children's Village.  We welcomed home 12 new children and God created a new family.  It was a beautiful day.  The process of picking up the children and brining them home was one I'll have to sit and take time to write out.  I was in awe of the precious children that God would entrust us to.  The house parents were so excited to have the responsibility and privilege to love on the least of these and bring them in as their own children.  Orphan no longer, now children who have a family that loves and cares for them.  We're excited to see God work in their lives to bring them as one family in a way on He can do. More stories to bring to you about how this family came about.  A big thanks to all that helped make this happen.... to those who funded this house, those that came and built it, those that are already sponsoring some of these children, those that will respond to God's leading to sponsor these children, to those that helped refer these children, those that prayed for these children before they even knew who they'd be and to our house parents who will raise these children to be "oaks of righteousness, a planing(mattaw) of the Lord, for the display of his splendor".  We are grateful.  

OUR CHILDREN ARE HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Praise the Lord we just got our children today! Unexpectedly Bud popped into the children's department after lunch just to see if anyone was around and haleluiah they gave the ok to put in children! Bud called and said "dont go running outside screaming when i tell you this" so i wasnt sure if it was bad or good, but ended up being the answer to prayer and something i've been waiting for for the past couple years. he quickly came home and off we went to rescue the children. first we went and got john and eunice, then went and got maureen, sharon, aron and noah and lastly got daisy and geoffrey. when we had them all piled in the car i looked back at them all, all being goofy and giggly, and felt a peace, a joy deep within and really had to fight back crying. (i didnt want to freak them out) these children have no idea the big futre God has for them! to an extent i really feel like we just birthed 8 children. the joy, excitement, waiting forever, planning, getting, and now exhausted! Praise the Lord!!!!!!!!!!! We are so thrilled. SO many hopes and dreams just came true in my life today. ok ill stop talking and show some pictures from today/tonight. oh and it was so great the reaction isaac and vivian had to bringing in the children. they've been waiting and waiting in great anticipation. when we drove down our road and picked them up with the kids they greeted them with so much excitement. tonight watching them interact with them was so great as well. they just loved on them and already were treating them as their own. their birth-children also welcomed the children as their new brothers and sisters. they really hit it off great and bonded. a lot of excitement!

Here they are right after we arrived at the home. They're dressed how they came. Some arent smiling but did in other pictures. Really, none of them were scared or not sure of coming, they were all really happy to be there and made themselves right at home. From left to right... John, Noah, Maureen, Eunice, Aron, Daisy, Geoffrey, Gideon, Jephtah, Sharon, sitting is Nehimiah, and on the ground sitting is Obadiah.

The boys really had a blast running around and found the wheel barrow.


Here's me with my boys! I'm so so so happy that we also brought in Noah. He is cousin to Maureen, Aron, and Sharon. He's about 14 months old.

Elisha had his share of fun as well. Daisy and Maureen loved carrying him around. Elisha was all about that.

Above is baby Noah. Below is the first meal we all took together. We went all out and celebrated! We had rice and beef stew with juice and sweets for dessert.