Our International House of People: A Stolen Post

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

A Stolen Post

OK so I do not want to take credit for this but I found it and wanted to share it. I get asked all the time by my students "why don't I have my own baby". I usually respond with I have my own baby because we love Lennah more than we could ever love a biological child and we know Delylah will be loved the same. Or I give them the response that there are 143 million orphans and they need mommies or daddies too. I just wish more people got this through their heads that adopting is not a disease or a cure for something. I think this list sums up how most of us feel. By the way, I added number 18 because I have actually had friends and strangers say I don't get how parents can give away their children (again another crazy comment from outside our community).

1.The fact that there are 143 million children without a parent to kiss them goodnight has made you lose sleep.
2.You realize DNA has nothing to do with love and family.
3.You can't watch Adoption Stories on TLC without sobbing.
4.The fact that if 7% of Christians adopted 1 child,there would be no orphans in the world,is convicting to you.
5.You spend free time surfing blogs about families who have experienced the blessing of adoption.
6. It drives you crazy when people ask you about adopted child's "real" parents.
7.You have ever been "pregnant" with your adoptive child longer than it takes an elephant to give birth.(2 years!)
8.You had no idea how you would afford to adopt but stepped out in faith anyway knowing where God calls you He will provide.
9. You have ever taken an airplane ride half way around the world with a child you just met.
10. You believe God's heart is for adoption.
11. You realize that welcoming a child into your heart and family is one of the most important legacy's you could ever leave on this earth.
12. You know what the word Dossier means and you can actually pronounce it!
13. You have welcomed a social worker into the most private parts of your life.
14. You shudder when people say your child is so lucky that you adopted them, knowing full well you are the blessed one to have them in your life.
15. When people tell you adopiton is the cure for infertility.. "they still don't get it."
16. There is always room for "just one more" at your dinner table.
17. As a small child you were worried about the Sally Struthers ophan commercials pleading for help for the children.
18. Think that birth parents are heroes because many loved their children so much that they allow us to love their children forever.
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History of Ethiopia

Ethiopia is one of the oldest known cradles of civilization known to man. Christianity was brought to the Kingdom of Axum around the 4th century AD and later in the 7th century Islam was introduced. Foreign missionaries were introduced to the region around the 1630's. Because of these unwelcomed guest Ethiopia did not welcome foreign Christians and Europeans into their lands. Its isolationism may have saved the country from 19th century colonialism. In 1936 Italian facists entered the region and forced its emperor into isolation but was later returned when the British and the French defeated the Italians. Civil unrest would lead to the demise of the aging emperor and in 1974 a socialist sort of government was named. The country went through a period of red terror that was funded by the Soviets and Cuba. This lead to the implementation of a communist government being installed in the late 1970's, early 1980's. In 1989 the country went through a period of famine that also lead to a change in governments. Finally, in 1994 the country would declare its independence and later hold free elections.

History of Vietnam

For about two thousand years Vietnam was ruled by China, following this period it would become independent for the next almost thousand years. In the 1800's it would be colonized by the French. The early 20th century would bring about visions of an independent republic. In 1945 Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam independent and renamed it the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. By 1947 a full-scale war would break out between the French and the Viet Minh (Ho CHi Minh's followers). China also began to aid the Viet Minh at this time due to its own communist revolution. July, 1954 the Geneva Accords would be sign paving the road to France leaving Vietnam; however, it would partition Vietnam into 2 independent states seperated by the 17th parallel. The South was helped by the United States, while the North would be dominated by the Viet Minh. By 1963 the South's government was very unstable. 1965 President Lyndon Johnson would send troops into Vietnam. The North would lead a massive attack in 1968 destroying much of the South. In 1969, Ho Chi Minh died but his forces remained in tact. By the early 1970's many Americans viewed the war as unwinnable and would prove unsuccessful at containing communism. January 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were signed ending the United States role in the war. In 1975 Saigon would fall to the North Vietnamese and in July of 1976 the two parts were reunified into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The war was disastrous for the Vietnamese people leaving an estimated 1 million to become boat people, 1 million imprisioned, and more than 100,000 killed. Today, Vietnam still has a communist form of government and although they are a developing nation many people remain extremely poor.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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