A video of "our" kids!

We have had the unique joy of being allowed to be part of the story that involves God, 127 vulnerable and orphaned children in Swaziland and a great ministry team in the people of Children's HopeChest. It has been a little more than a year since we stepped into a position we didn't understand (sponsorship coordinators), doing something we have never done before, resulting in receiving the extraordinary blessing of joy that He promises to those who obey Him when He tells us to care for the least of all: the orphan, the widows and the strangers.

We made a video of 19 of "our" new kids, children who have found their way in the last months to the Beveni Carepoint in Swaziland, a place where they can receive care in the form of food, discipleship, education and love. I'm sharing it with you now with the request you do a few things:

1) Share it with people you know, for as sure as I can be about anything, I am sure some of you receiving this email may know a person who needs to know one of these children as much as the child needs to know your friend!

2) If you are a blogger, a Tweeter or a social networker, please post it to your site. God is using the virtual world of the internet for His Glory in incredible ways, including bringing together His big kids to care for His little ones. In this spiritual battle of the air, He wins!

3) And more than anything, will you please pray? Please pray for the 18 children yet to be sponsored (I know there are 19 in the video, but little Mduduzi became sponsored this day, and so praise God, only 18 more children need the Hope a sponsor represents), for the the children who have yet to discover the Beveni Carepoint or others like it in Swaziland, for the people who are already sponsoring and for us as we continue to be allowed to be part of this story.

Here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aomRX8c8aDI

Our specific prayer is that all the children are sponsored by January 6, which is Epiphany. We celebrate that day every year by bringing our gifts for Jesus to Him, even as the Magi did. The gifts differ each year; this year we want to give to Him a fully sponsored carepoint. We are so aware He is the one who draws the sponsors to the children and so in truth, He provides the gift we want to give! But I believe He accepts the desire of our hearts as part of that gift, and so we are stating that desire as a prayer.

We feel like the most blessed family this Christmas: we are the children of the King, on an adventure that is epic and eternal! We have faced so many challenges this year, but praise Him who is able to do abundantly more than we can! He has been so faithful to us. We desire to now be faithful to Him!

We pray your celebration of Jesus this Christmas is filled with hope, joy, wonder and praises, for He is most assuredly worthy of them!

Merry Christmas!

Deb Gangemi, for the Gangemi Family.