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...
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,...
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...
“Anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me.” – Matthew 18:5. Zewditu and her husband had raised five children but felt God was asking them to continue parenting – only this time they were to invest their lives in the orphans of the town...
by Becky Burns Back in March of this year we received a tiny baby girl into our care at the orphanage (you can read her story here). At less than one month old, she came to us from the hospital where she had been treated for malnutrition. Belise began to grow and...
by Joy Casey on Dec. 1 “I know the plans I have for you …” I woke up refreshed this morning after an incredibly long day (or was it almost two days?) of travel. A beautiful, warm day greeted me and my companions as we gathered on the patio of our hotel for...
