Monday, April 27, 2009: Bethany will participate in another project for SN children!
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Last fall, Bethany Christian Services celebrated an opportunity to send two social workers to China for the "Hope of Autumn" Beijing project. We were one of five agencies to participate in this project. This program helped to "paper-ready" children with special needs for adoption. We continue to work on finding families for the remaining referrals, but overall, the program was very successful. The unmatched/remaining referrals have been published to our website for you to review and pray for.
BCS Website China SN referrals
Due to our commitment to children with special needs, we are the first agency to be "re-invited" to participate in a second program like this... praise God!!!
We are pleased to announce that Kristina Huisinga (MN branch) and Belinda Geertsma (Holland, MI branch) will be representing Bethany Christian Services in Shanghai, China for our next "special needs camp" in mid-May. Please keep these ladies in your prayers for safe travel and productive orphanage visits. Our goal is to help children with special needs find permanency. Their task will be to meet with each of the thirty-some children and provide a general assessment on each of them to bring back to the U.S. so that we can help these children find their forever families. We again will have exclusive rights to these thirty-some referrals. The children's ages, gender and special needs greatly vary. Once we have official referrals on these children, we will begin matching them to our Bethany families in the SN program (previously known as Children of Promise/COP program). We will match the referrals to eligible families in our SN program first, then open the referrals up to all BCS China families (i.e. exclusive list like the one sent out recently) and if referrals remain unmatched, we will again go public on our website.
Programs like this have been encouraging to know that CCAA is committed to these precious children. It is also encouraging to our waiting families in the SN program. We appreciate your continued support and prayers!
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Last fall, Bethany Christian Services celebrated an opportunity to send two social workers to China for the "Hope of Autumn" Beijing project. We were one of five agencies to participate in this project. This program helped to "paper-ready" children with special needs for adoption. We continue to work on finding families for the remaining referrals, but overall, the program was very successful. The unmatched/remaining referrals have been published to our website for you to review and pray for.
BCS Website China SN referrals
Due to our commitment to children with special needs, we are the first agency to be "re-invited" to participate in a second program like this... praise God!!!
We are pleased to announce that Kristina Huisinga (MN branch) and Belinda Geertsma (Holland, MI branch) will be representing Bethany Christian Services in Shanghai, China for our next "special needs camp" in mid-May. Please keep these ladies in your prayers for safe travel and productive orphanage visits. Our goal is to help children with special needs find permanency. Their task will be to meet with each of the thirty-some children and provide a general assessment on each of them to bring back to the U.S. so that we can help these children find their forever families. We again will have exclusive rights to these thirty-some referrals. The children's ages, gender and special needs greatly vary. Once we have official referrals on these children, we will begin matching them to our Bethany families in the SN program (previously known as Children of Promise/COP program). We will match the referrals to eligible families in our SN program first, then open the referrals up to all BCS China families (i.e. exclusive list like the one sent out recently) and if referrals remain unmatched, we will again go public on our website.
Programs like this have been encouraging to know that CCAA is committed to these precious children. It is also encouraging to our waiting families in the SN program. We appreciate your continued support and prayers!
