First Grade: Lessons on Health, Art, Music, & Missions
Where to even begin? There's a reason I haven't written any posts for L's first grade year... life happened. The year 2017 started out with lots of energy and excitement as we pursued what we believed to be God's purpose and vision for our family through international adoption. When I learned that India is only barely behind China in population yet has more orphans than any other country in the world, is noticeably smaller in land mass, only about 2% of the people are Christians, and there is widespread, violent persecution of those Christians, I quickly went from wanting another baby to passionate about offering the life-changing hope of Jesus to at least one... (learn more: https://www.opendoorsusa.org/ , https://www.persecution.com/ ) I was firing on all cylinders at the speed of light, knocking out the mountains of adoption paperwork and training. The goal was to have all of our end of the process checked off in record time over the summer while we were ...