The One Who Respects Women

The One Who Respects Women

by Dinah Monahan Dinah is the founder and director of Psalm 51 ministries and has traveled with Joy many times to Ethiopia.  Her forte is encouraging women coming out of Islam to stand in the freedom God has for them as beloved and cherished daughters of the King. ...
Babies – Coming and Going

Babies – Coming and Going

The doors to our Joyful Place orphanage have been swinging in and out lately.  They swing in when an abandoned baby is brought to our door by the police or other government official, and they swing out when a child is legally adopted and goes home with his or her new...
God Rescues the One

God Rescues the One

by Joy Casey I am winding down my time in Ethiopia and have a few hours to myself to ponder all that God has done, is doing and wants to do going forward.  Thoughts are spinning in my head as I recall the individuals God has called out of Is!am and what it has cost...
Easter Dinner and Adoption Touchpoints

Easter Dinner and Adoption Touchpoints

by Joy Casey  I am back in the capital city of Addis Ababa.  My work in the countryside is done and now I switch gears to a cosmopolitan atmosphere with all the trappings that go with a city of 5.5 million residents.  Bad roads defined the first week of travel,...
Adoption – Re-writing Life Stories

Adoption – Re-writing Life Stories

by Joy Casey  You would think after the decades I have worked in the adoption field stories of how God places children in just the right family would be old hat.  Same-ol’-same-ol’ … or something like that.  Just the opposite is true.  Each adoption is like a...