{"id":614,"date":"2019-12-12T22:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T04:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2021-12-08T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:56:13","slug":"christian-orphan-fund-update-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/12\/christian-orphan-fund-update-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Orphan Fund Update &#8211; 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really enjoy calling families (usually talk to the Mom) to tell them we are sending them a grant check for their adoption.&nbsp; The gratitude and emotion expressed back to us many times are overwhelming.&nbsp; I won\u2019t be able to recreate the experience in an email, but I want to tell you about a call Ron and I made today (Dec 4). &nbsp;<br><br>When she answered our phone call, Kelly was at the Atlanta airport with her son waiting to get on a flight to Kiev Ukraine to bring home her two new children.&nbsp; See the attached family photo; they already have 7 adopted children.&nbsp; We told her we were ready to send her a grant for $5,000, which is a small portion of their total adoption cost.&nbsp; She was so thankful, crying a little, and said she wanted to scream in the airport.&nbsp; She thanked me profusely, and said, &#8220;God bless you.\u201d &nbsp;I said back to her, \u201cGod bless you\u201d.&nbsp; And she immediately responded, \u201cHe does, all the time.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Robinson-Family-Photo-201912-1024x934.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-617\" width=\"668\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Robinson-Family-Photo-201912-510x465.jpg 510w, https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Robinson-Family-Photo-201912-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><figcaption>Robinson Family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to read more about this incredible family, read their grant application cover letter <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Grant-Application-Cover-Letter-Robinson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2019 was our biggest year so far, giving $140,000 in grants, and passing $550,000 in total grant amounts given to adoptive families &#8211; supporting 158 adopted children &#8211; since we started in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to all of our donors who make this ministry possible.&nbsp; Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy calling families (usually talk to the Mom) to tell them we are sending them a grant check for their adoption.&nbsp; The gratitude and emotion expressed back to us many times are overwhelming.&nbsp; I won\u2019t be able to recreate the experience in an email, but I want to tell you about a call [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Robinson-Family-Photo-201912.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}