Loving life, Loving Lera

My friends---I would like for you all to take a moment and pray for this child--Lera.  Isn't she beautiful?

Please visit her page (click on her name and it will link you to her page) and consider making a donation to help get her home. For a ten dollar donation to her fund, you will be in the running for some great prizes including an iPad among other things.  This is tax-deductible also.  With your ten dollar donation, you will receive more than a chance to win some great prizes.   The ultimate prize will be this girl being allowed to come here to the States to start a new life.  You are helping to buy her a future that she will love!  A chance where she can come home and shine.  A place where she will be loved beyond belief.  Away from a life of sponge baths and mush to eat every single day. A place beyond the walls of the place she calls home now.   If this adoption falls through, she will be transferred to a mental institution soon.  There is no future there for these kids.  She will be a number in the system. 

She has lost several families who committed to her and had to back out of the adoption.  The Higbie's are in the process of adopting her, but they were told they cannot move forward unless her family raises an additional $14,000 dollars in the next 19 days.  This is not an impossible task.  We are going to call on the one who can make this happen.  Lord, we lift this child up to you.  We ask that hearts will be open to calling out your name on her behalf.  I have often asked myself and the Lord how can we make a difference when there are so many who need.  Every life we save, one at the time, is a gift to God.  We show him that we are heeding his call. 

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. – Romans 8:28 (NIV)

I am called to pray for this child.  I am called to ask you to help this child through your prayers and donations.  I have never been one to ask (beg) for money, but I am begging for this life to be saved.  I am begging for you to pray that we, the Higbie's Christian family, help save Lera's life.  Yes, after we save Lera, there will be another child to save.  Yes, I will ask you to help me again.  Yes, it is all worth it.