Old Friends Renewed, New Friends Continued, Techno and a Well??

Warning this post is a bit long but worth it...have your praises ready and your tissue!

We started the day with a wonderful reunion of Victoria and Lydia. The pictures say it all. They hadn't seen each other since March when Victoria came to America. They have spoken on the phone from Washington to Virginia a few times and this week Lydia moved with her family back to Anacortes Washington which is only 1 and half hours away! WOW God Loves these girls!! From the village in the northern tip of Ghana to Beacon House in ACCRA, GHANA to WASHINGTON STATE, their lives are different but they both Love God and have seen Him faithful in their lives that is for sure!!! Today they reunited and spent the day with each other riding rides and enjoying each other tremendously. It was a very joy filled day.





We also got to meet several families in Anacortes that are in the process of adopting more precious children from Beacon House....YES WOW AGAIN! We met some of Lydia's siblings and several families we believe we will have the privaledge of getting to know better in the days, months and years ahead.





Yes JOHN got to enjoy some Cotton Candy too! He had been waiting all week :-)



Finally after many of us returned from the Newsboys concert we met up with Ashlie and Victoria only to find out Victoria had been dancing and having a great time with her friends from next door dancing to tecno music...on stage, off the stage it didn't matter. Victoria was celebrating a great day for sure.



To top it off we continued to make connections with families involved in adoption and / or foster care in our community and raise funds for the orphanages in Ghana, India and Haiti....toward the end of the night a man and his wife told the man who is organizing and supporting an orphanage in Haiti that he would cover the cost for helping him dig and set up a well for this orphanage in Haiti...(approx cost $2500) WOW AGAIN! God is AWESOME!

This was a long post but it was a LONG but Glorious Day from beginning to end!

Or as the Newsboys and the crowd sang tonite...and ALL GOD's Children singing Glory, Glory, Hallelujah HE REIGNS! From the African plains to the Fair in Lynden HE REIGNS!!!