Fields of Grace Updates!

Jan,2008: The picture above is our new orphanage, Fields of Grace, in Burkina Faso Africa. Our African director, Biba, not only acquired a brand new house for us, she even had them rebuild a couple of rooms to meet our specifications. (We are waiting on them to landscape it.) As of Jan 15 we have wired money to Africa to start buying the furnishings. We hope to start out with around 7 kids and slowly build to around 15 or whatever we feel the house will hold. Once social services inspect our home (scheduled for Jan 21) they will issue our license to be an approved NGO in Burkina. We hope to have children in the house within the next 2 weeks. We will be adding pictures here as things start to take shape. We are still needing monthly sponsors, please see our how you can help link for more info! We also have a couple of young ladies who will be going over this summer to help out. Thanks for checking in, we will be updating several times a week as we take off on this big adventure stepping out in faith to give hope to the children on Burkina. At this time I would like to thank some people who have been faithful and instrumental in getting this done. First Heather, a wonderful friend and mom to 11 children, who has spent hours raising funds and planning fundraisers. Do you ever sleep? To Sarah, you are the queen and such a great friend. Thanks for all the logos and never complaining as we ask for changes. To Fami, who is always a constant support and who is the brain behind the operation. Whatever task I ask she fulfills it beyond my expectations. To all the incredible people who have prayed and donated to the orphanage, who understand and feel the passion in helping children who have nothing, THANK YOU!! And to Biba and her team in Africa, what a woman of God who does the work of 20 people with no pay and no car and who has made me long for a closer walk with God. My life is richer because of all of you!

Ann