This is a repost from Timothy Baker Founder of Shepherd's Field Children's Village
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| Seth, Stacey, Ling Ling, Josheph, and Grady at Shepherd's Field Children's Village |
Who will help these kids if no one adopts them?
With more than 800 children already finding their forever families through the miracle of adoption. The question still remains. Who will help the kids who will not be adopted? Of course adoption is the goal for every child who comes to Shepherd’s Field, but unfortunately for some of the children this will never be a reality. There are many factors contributing to them not being adopted such as the severity of special need, age, or the child's home orphanage’s inability to file the child’s paperwork with the government. As the number of adoptions each year decrease, this further escalates the need to help those who will never be adopted. Our mission of transforming hopelessness into beautiful stories of redemption and love includes helping those children who will never be adopted. These children will need rehabilitation and vocational training to increase their chances in life and prevent them from being institutionalized for the rest of their lives.
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| Vocational Center construction at Shepherd's Field |
There are not many options for these children so this is the reason why we are building a vocational training center at Shepherd’s Field. Construction began in early 2009 yet two years later we have only completed one fourth of the building. Just last month while meeting with the leaders of Shepherd’s Field, our operations director, Christina Li, prayed for God’s provision for the new building. At the time we didn’t even have enough funds in our bank account to restart the construction this year. That night our founder, Tim Baker, received an email from a Chinese American couple living and working in Beijing. They have become regular volunteers at Shepherd’s Field donating both their time and what ever else they could to the children. Last month they had asked our staff to pray for their apartment in Beijing to be sold. We did and this email was to inform us of that sale and that they are donating the profits of the sale to the vocational center construction. That amount was an amazing Y500,000 RMB ($76923.00 US).
While these funds will help us to restart this years construction, they will not be enough to finish it. It is our goal to complete half of the building this year. In order to do that, we will need your prayers, support and advocacy for this project. Please use this story to inspire and encourage your friends, family and coworkers to help. With your help, the dreams of the unadoptable have a much greater chance of becoming true. Your donations targeted toward the Shepherd’s Field Vocational Center will transform the lives of these older, hard-to-place children. All of us at Shepherd’s Field Children’s Village extend our deepest thanks for your love and support. Lives that were once hopeless are now deeply affected by your generosity. To help, go tohttp://www.causes.com/caus
If anyone reading wants to go visit these awesome kids, let me know! I am more than happy to round up a group and help get us all to China. Seriously, pray about it and let me know!
