Friday, January 25, 2008

I need a home FAST!!




This is written by the person helping with the adoption:

Sergey is a moderate to severe special needs child -No agency fees, No country fees!!! possible grant available for medical and visa as well. Sergey has gone so down hill, I don't think he will live much longer. He is pretty much considered an invalid now, although he does recognize his birth mother. Please contact stephanie@untilallhavehomes.org for more info. Please feel free to cross post this info but not the picture!

Also great news! We only need $650 more to complete our inital budget for Fields of Grace in Burkina. You can read more about that in the last post!! Please pray with us that this phase will be fully funded by the end of the month!!

Until All Have Homes,

Ann Grabeman

Saturday, January 19, 2008

WE ONLY NEED $1100.00 MORE, CAN YOU HELP?


Please read my post before this one. We have raised $1900 of the $3000 we need. We still need $1800 by the end of the month. And we also need monthly sponsors. No amount is too small!! We do need your help! Please consider giving a tax deductable gift. We will be one of the first American orphanages in Burkina ministering to the children and people. WE appreciate your help. Please use the links in the previous post to link to our pay pal account!! We will also have a new website and once the orphanage is up and running a new blog! Thanks for partnering with us! We also are working on a link that you can put on your blog or website that will link to our Fields of Grace website. It has our logo and when you click on it, you will go to our FOG site (we are working on the site, should be done next week). If you would like that info to put on your blog, please LMK :)

Until All Have Homes,
Ann Grabeman

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

January 15th Update, Needing your help




I hope everyone is having a wonderful start to a New Year. At UAHH we are starting our New Year by taking a big step of faith. Most of you know we are an all volunteer based org. We do have 501c3 status with the IRS. This month (well actually today) we are opening a small orphanage in Burkina Faso Africa. We have been doing school sponsorships in this country for 3 years. The people are incredible and since they are not in the spot light like some of the other African countries they do not receive the aid that other countries do yet they rank 8th in the world for children under 5 mortality. We are so blessed to have a wonderful accountable woman of integrity in Burkina to oversee our program. She is doing this only to help her people and so far has never taken a salary to do all the work we ask her too. As we start out on this very faith building adventure we are in need of some start up capital. We have raised quite a bit so far but we are needing $3,000 more to be where we want to be by the end of the month. Our orphanage will hold 15 children and right now we are only going to be taking in infants to age 6 because we are in a smaller house and feel this would be most appropriate until we can expand. I had posted a picture on our last update but God has provided us with a brand new house for the same price as the other one and the owner has modified it to our specifications in order to accomodate us as an orphanage. (I will post that today, it is still needing landscaping :)

We are in dire need of monthly sponsors and also one time donations. We need your help. Could you give $50/$ 100 or more a month. Could your company sponsor a month of our budget at Fields of Grace? Does your company have a matching donation fund set up? I know not everyone has spare change sitting around but could you ask the company you work for? The stores you frequent? Your Sunday School group, small group, or your family? If you can't do monthly can you do a one time donation to help us purchase cribs and other hard goods to stock the orphanage?

We know that God will provide, we only need to get the word out. Please know that 100% of your donations will be going to Africa, we fund all our own overhead costs here in the USA.

Thanks for being a part of this adventure!! We could never do this without you!

If you would like to donate a one time donation on Paypal, please click the link below:














If you would like to be a monthly sponsor, please follow this link. Make your first month sponsorship payment and we will contact you to set up your payment arrangements for the rest of your payments.(first payment will be your monthly sponsorship donation)













Thanks for taking this walk in faith with us to change the lives of these children. We are working on updating our website with pictures and info on information about our orphanage and Burkina. We will be adding pictures of the children as they come in and also be doing weekly updates so stay tuned! It only takes ONE PERSON to change their world!! Receipts will be sent for all donations. All donations are tax deductable. If you would like to donate but not thru paypal, please email me at: ann@untilallhavehomes.org.

Until All Have Homes,

Ann Grabeman

Sunday, January 6, 2008

FINALLY AN UPDATE JAN 6 HAPPY NEW YEAR




First, I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and are also having an incredible start to a New Year!!! I am sorry it has been awhile since I posted. Since Dec 24 we have had 5 sick kids and been in the hospital with one 7 days. Thanks for your patience and not giving up on me!

We are excited to see what the new year brings for UAHH. I am so thrilled at all the children being matched with families. Prob the most exciting one (well they are all exciting, but this one is special) Is Igor the darling 15yo boy from EE who had mutiple burns has FOUND HIS FAMILY!!! We are thrilled beyond belief as he has waiting too long and his time was fast running out. WE have been updating the website weekly, our incredible team is doing such a great job!! We have new babies and children in Haiti too, so take a peek.

We started a memorial page for the 3 little ones that joined Jesus in Heaven a couple of weeks ago. We don't anyone to forget their little faces. They may think they won't be remembered, but they will thru us as we ALL (team effort) join together to accomplish the task of finding these children homes.

We are so excited to FINALLY be within weeks of opening our orphanage in Africa. I am putting a pic of our new HOME above. We have named this project Fields of Grace. We are starting small and will be growing as God provides. We are in need of many hard good items to furnish the orphanage as well as monthly sponsors. If you would like to do either, please visit our homepage at www.untilallhavehomes.org and click on the picture of the orphanage. There you can see our wish list or just make a general donation. You can either print the page and send a check or you can use PayPal. If you would like to do monthly sponsorship please contact me personally at ann@untilallhavehomes.org. We know this is a joint effort. We are just a bunch of moms, just like you, wanting to do something BIGGER in the world! Please join us in our journey!! We are also looking for volunteers to help with fundraising, mission trips, becoming prayer/fasting partners, and many other things! So if you are interested in more info, in helping, praying, again, please contact me at the email above. We are in the process of building a website within our website with pictures and info on the orphanage as we get it. So stay tuned!

Everyone who has signed up to access the Password protected pages, WE ARE FINALLY CAUGHT up! Hopefully everyones info will be in our system no later then Jan 12. Confirmation emails prob won't be sent out until several days after. Please keep our webdesigner in your prayers. Besides meeting all my demands and exceeding all my expectations, she has 4 children and a husband who has had 2 brain surgeries and is going thru radiation!! Can you say Super woman!! Fami I love you!

To all our extra patient school sponsors. Your sponsorship info will be arriving in the US on Jan 13. I promise to turn it around to you and have it in the mail by the 15th! If anyone would like to send a note to their "student" please email me and I will hook you up with Biba and she can translate it and get it to your child!

Well, I know this was long but that is what I get for not updating more often! Thanks for coming back and checking in!!

Todays picture is of a little baby from Haiti who is here on a Medical Visa. She nearly died while here, but by God's grace the DRS finally diagnosed her, brought her fully around and she is doing beyond all expectations in her wonderful family. Just in case you don't recognize her, it is Youseline! I will do her before and after :) What a difference incredible medical care THANK YOU DAYTON CHILDRENS and a family who see the value in a child and FIVE months can make :)

Until All Have Homes,
Ann