Cradle of Love Baby Home

One of our volunteers, Sarah Dent had a fundraising dinner for the Home last weekend. She had a great turnout and raised over 1,500 dollars for the babies!  She included the following information for anyone else who would like to do fundraisers and have a Kohl's Store in their area.

"For future references with volunteers coming to Cradle of Love.  If
they do a fundraiser to give to the orphanage.  Kohl's department store
has a volunteer program called the A-Team. They only volunteer for
fundraisers that care for children. I put a request in for them to help
out with serving. If you get over 5 volunteers, Kohl's department store
donates $500 to the cause."

We have a new baby girl of 4 months. Waiting for a photo to post of her.

Update: Finally got a photo!

Ross and Marsha (and I am sure that Ramona helped too–put together three incubators and one bilibrubin light unit. 

It will be exciting to have our first premature babies in them.

Thanks ya'll!

On Sunday morning we had a group of about 14 people come from the Kenya Commercial Bank in Arusha. They brought 8 trees to plant as well as LOTS of fresh fruits and vegetables, dry food goods and soaps for the Home. Thank you to all who participated in this wonderful outreach to our babies! 

They spent about two hours playing with the children and seemed to really enjoy their time.

All the goodies                    Feeding lunch to the babies

 My family and I are now in Oregon and having a wonderful time. We are still a big jet lagged, but doing pretty well in staying awake most of the day–don't want to miss a minute by sleeping!

The incubators are put together and I will post photos of that soon. Marsha, the ADRA volunteer is keeping me up to date on all the activities at the Home and trying to be positive, so that I don't fret! Thanks, Marsha.

 Yesterday we thought we were getting a 3 month old, but when Esther from Imara Ministries arrived, she told me that the baby hadn't come yet. Instead she brought us an orphaned 18 month old girl. Dorcas has adjusted amazingly well, and we will get the baby next week.

 Dennis' mother came for him yesterday. It is a long story, but it is best that he be back with her.

Another long story, but the mother of Nelson and Nixon took them home on Wednesday.

My precious Carolina is moving to the Baby Home on Sunday. We had so hoped she would have been with her adoptive family way before now, but it was not to be. The next prospective placement date is mid-August.