New Horizons for Children

I am really excited to know about New Horizons for Children, which is a nationwide orphan ministry that focuses on finding American (and Puerto Rican) families to host children from Latvia and Ukraine.  They are looking for families to host these angelic children for 4-5 weeks over the course of the summer and Christmas season.  All of the children that they place are between the ages of 6-16 years old, and not all are adoptable.  Because of their older ages, the children that this agency places are least likely to be adopted because they are older than the desired adoptable age.  All of these children are looking for a place in the world where they "fit" or feel like they belong and are loved, and with people who love them.

For more information on this agency and the children they represent, click the following link:
http://www.newhorizonsforchildren.org/about-us/

I've been thinking a lot about this agency since I interviewed the Jones family.  If you remember, they are currently working with this agency to adopt 3 sisters from Ukraine.  As previously mentioned, not all of the children represented by this agency are adoptable.  A major part of this agency's work is to provide these children with the opportunity to learn life skills that they haven't yet learned in the orphanages they live in.  I think the best way to make it relate-able is to compare it to the Foster Care system in America; while this system is great and helpful to millions of children who have no other option in life, once these children turn 18 they are released out into the world to be on their own... even if they aren't completely ready for that yet.  The children that are represented through this agency, are put out on their own at the age of 16.  Can you imagine how scary that would be?  And the options they have once they are turned out are scary.  A lot of the young women turn to prostitution as a form of surviving.

The Christmas season is upon us and we are all in the process of hunting down bargain deals for gifts for our loved ones and a lot of us are starting the shopping season early than the major Black Friday door-buster sales after Thanksgiving.  I wonder though, if there are some families out there who may consider a different kind of Christmas this year in putting all their gift money towards hosting a child from Eastern Europe.  There are currently 200 children who are in need of finding a host family.  Think of all the blessings that would go along in hosting these children.  Not only would they learn so much from you, but can you imagine the lesson in gratitude and love that you can learn from them?  I wish I was in a financial position to host a child myself, I wouldn't think twice about it.  I ask that you strongly consider it.

If you are not financially able to host one of these children, there is still a way that you can help.  For the next tow days, ALL purchases made through the link below will benefit New Horizons for Children to the tune of 7.5% (it reverts to 4% beginning November 1st).  Now is the time to make those online purchases you've been considering, and at the same time helping an agency that benefits hundreds of orphans in Eastern Europe find security in this world.  Let's help these children by making our online Holiday purchases through the following link:
http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393193&linkCode=shr&tag=n0680-20