So, here's the story...I "met" Sarah Kologek a couple of months ago through our agency's yahoo group. We discovered that we'd received our referrals just four days apart. I also found out that their referral was not for a baby, but for a SEVEN year old precious little girl named Rediate. Because of the fact that our Melia was about to turn SEVEN, the Kologek's story resonated deeply within my heart.
Sarah and I have exchanged messages, prayers, and words of encouragement throughout the last couple of months and now YOU have an opportunity to help them bring their little girl home. Find out how at the end of their story...
We are a Jesus-loving family of 3 - soon to be 4!! Through prayer and scripture, God has called us into His ministry of adoption. We feel blessed that He has chosen this path for us as a reflection of our own adoptions as His children. Our adoption journey officially began Jan. 21, 2011. After completing the initial wave of paperwork, Janet Jenkins worked with us to complete our Home Study, and we began the wait to be matched with the child God had chosen for us. After only waiting for 7 weeks, we officially accepted our referral from Children's Hope International November 14, 2011 for a healthy and beautiful 7 year old girl whose name means gift from God.
Rediate was born in Ethiopia in November 2004 (American calendar). Relinquished just 8 months ago due to the illness of her parents, she has become incredibly connected to the caregivers and children at the transition home. During our initial visit to Ethiopia, we were amazed at what a giving and confident girl the Lord had placed in our lives. Rediate was immediately affectionate with us, and made a clear connection with our 8 year old daughter, Rowan. We passed court Feb 2, 2012 and we are now waiting for the call to travel back to Ethiopia to bring our daughter home.
One of the biggest reasons we felt we were called into His ministry of adoption was to open ourselves up to what God might do in our lives. We knew we had to grow in our dependence of the Lord. We have held numerous fundraisers and we have raised all but $4000 of our adoption costs. Praise God!! If we'd had the money up front, we would not have been as verbal as we have been about God's faith and love for His children and about how anything is possible with Him. To some, the cost may seem like a road block; to us, it was a sign that God is a part of our process. God has made it clear to us that He will provide the $4000 needed to complete this chapter of our story in His timing and through His people. We are so blessed to have so many people working hard to bring our daughter home into her forever family. Thank you all so much for being a part of our daughter's story, our story, our family in the making.
Sarah, Ian, Rowan, and Rediate Kologek
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him who have been called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28
THE CHALLENGE
So, it occurred to me that WE...all of you and me could quickly and easily help the Kologeks bring sweet Rediate home. Here's how...
Click HERE to pay by
Log into your PayPal account
Type in the amount you want to donate
Put sarahkologek@yahoo.com in the recipient
Submit
Done
You can select to donate as much as you feel led, but I'd like to challenge you to donate an amount that is significant to you.
Maybe you'll select SEVEN, because Rediate is SEVEN years old. Maybe you'll donate TWENTY-TWO because if you add up ages of your children, that's the sum. Maybe you'll donate TEN because our little Bek is ten months old and you're helping to pray him home. Maybe you'll donate FIFTY in honor of a significant someone's age.
Whatever number you decide, be sure to note in the comment section WHY that amount is significant.
Ready? Pray. Donate. Be Blessed.
Thank you so much, Jen for opening your heart to our story and posting it here. I just read and re-read your post before and it really puts into prespective just how it would feel if we had no choice but to put our child up for adoption due to illness or poverty and just who would take in an 8 year old. I am forever grateful for you and our friendship and the bond that has brought us together. Thank you to firends, family and strangers alike for helping bring Rediate Zahara into her forever family♥
ReplyDeleteA beautiful story! Thanks for sharing. We passed court on January 24, so maybe we'll all be at embassy together! :)
ReplyDeleteThat would be great!! This is from Sarah!! Same with the comment above. I am not good at this so I do not know how to put my name in..I had to click Anonymous lol
ReplyDeletelove your heart, friend.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the outcome of the Kologek adoption? Did they receive enough donations to adopt their beautiful daughter? God bless them!
ReplyDeletel love you family rediat my name is dehininet amdewrk my sisiter name is rediate amdewrk l am not can egilsh beut liteil pelise give me rediate aderes sharah pelise
ReplyDelete* Refugee families in the area of redial amidewerk *
ReplyDelete** We are very redoubled amitewerk family who are newborns in Christ Jesus, and we are so annoyed that we all are not as happy as you and your family. We're blasting. *
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Please * join us in sharing the message with our sister in the name of the Lord,
Our sister, in the photo, was called rediate amidewerk, who was in the US in 2012 in a US Congregation.
Its foster children are Sister Families: sarah kologek (mathiesons) and rowan kologek Their first daughter, my sister, became the fourth family in rediate amidewerk in 2012.
She was adopted by a US citizen when she was 10 years old when she was adopted in the United States in 2011, when she was 11 years old, but when she was 11, she was 7 years old and did not know how she was downgraded to Google, and asked why the red age was decreasing. .
My sister rediate amidewerk When she was 7 years old, her foster parents moved to her grandmother's house when she was 7 years old, but she did not agree with the plaintiffs when she left. When she left the house, she took her with a lively language teacher. She would be with her grandchildren. Because they are big, you have to call my grandmother and my mother to chat with my sister, my mother and my mother. It is the mother's womb that breaks my mother's melancholy melancholy.
But we have not been able to find our sister for a while We have not been able to find our sister We have not been able to find our sister We have not been able to find our sister Our chlidern Internachnal Hop Estates and their numbers when asked if they are asked to be redesigned She said that she was second only to her family No, you have been told to support us by supporting us or providing our sponsors with the help of a relative in the United States, but as a nonprofit, Schools are said to survive, or is there really a God yošēfe igizi’ābihori idemihoni Health does not believe that my mother is very cunning with my sister, but she is my sister shakes disease is good, everything is good yemitihonibeti.igizi’ābihori.
My sister had a Red Sign with her unplanned masculine tattoo. She cried for a moment and cried so much when she woke up from my mother.
She is her mother, her mother is her mother, and her father is a widow, and two sisters have a brother and her sister, kasayenesh amidewerk, her older sister, dehinineti amidewerk, her first brother, yohanis amidewrk, is called Amhara and we live in a rural area of the Amhara region. it is.
If you have a way to get my sister back in prayer and have a way to get my sister in the prayer, I would like to ask her to accompany me in the Lord's petition and to help her with her filthy sarong.
My sister redi very much I love you I have never thought of you ever since I left you I would like to remind you of our memories of our future Mother and father, sister and sister, grandmother, dehininet first, fellowship, friends, relatives, our neighbors, we are all desperate, you laugh, we all laugh and cry Please say yes, please let us hear your voice.
Let's go find the message