America World Adoption News

China- Mission Trip to Gansu Province

America World is excited to announce that we are partnering with Visiting Orphans for a mission trip to the Gansu province, August 2-14, 2012.  This is a wonderful opportunity for families to serve one of our partnership orphanages where many special needs children reside. Families and individuals who participate in this trip, will have the opportunity to experience China’s rich culture in Beijing before traveling to a rural area of the Gansu Province. During this trip, team members will have the opportunity to share love and care for children who have a wide range of medical needs. 

There is a great need for team members who are in the medical field -particularly those who are physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, or speech therapists; however,  any individual or family is encouraged to participate in this trip.  Whether holding a child, playing games with a toddler, making crafts with older children, or feeding a baby their bottle, there is something for everyone on this trip.

Individuals and families interested in this mission trip opportunity, should contact Frank Pass at frank.pass@visitingorphans.org to learn more. Additional information about this exciting trip can be found by clicking  here. 

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Check out information for the Honduras 2012 mission trip with Visiting Orphans. We’re excited to be partnering with such a wonderful organization as Visiting Orphans which provides opportunities for individuals and families to literally visit orphans all around the world. These trips are unique opportunities for our waiting and post adoptive families to continue to be involved in orphan care and so we hope that you will consider Visiting Orphans in 2012.

Not adopting from Honduras? Consider also mission trips to the following countries:

Haiti

Ukraine

India

Ethiopia

China

Vote for Visiting Orphans

We have a wonderful opportunity to help Visiting Orphans be blessed with a grant of $50,000 this year from “Giving of Life”!  Right now Visiting Orphans is sending over 1,000 men and women of God each year to walk out James 1:27 in thirteen different countries. With a $50,000 grant, they could possibly double these numbers, reaching hundreds more orphans in over 26 countries, bringing hope and love to each one of them… changing their lives by sharing the good news that they are adopted by their Abba Father, and that they are not forgotten by Him or us!

You can help VO continue their plight for the Orphan by voting for Visiting Orphans on Giving of Life. It’s easy. It’s simple, and both those who visit and are visited will be blessed. Click here to vote for Visiting Orphans.

Visiting Orphans: Honduras Trip

 

America World Adoption is a proud partner with Visiting Orphans, a Christian Ministry that organizes mission trips around the world.  Will you consider joining Visiting Orphans in sharing God’s love with children that need a glimpse of hope? They still have spots open on their June Honduras team. Visiting Orphans is partnering with Providence Ministries and Good Shepherd Children's Home to serve the least of these in Honduras. The team will minister to orphans by simply loving them and giving them the attention they deserve. They will spend their time doing crafts, telling Bible Stories, playing sports, etc.

Date: June 10-17, 2011

Location: Siguatepeque, Honduras

For more information and to join this team, please visit the Visiting Orphans website.

Visiting Orphans Trip Giveaway

Visiting Orphans is giving away one all expenses paid mission trip to visit orphans in any one of their 13 countries!  They were blessed with a donation from someone whose heart was to send someone on missions, so it was decided to use it to help raise money for their church/orphanage partnership program. 

For every purchase of Visiting Orphan's new t-shirts or henleys (www.visitingorphans.org/tshirts), you will receive one entry into this drawing which will be drawn on 11/11 at the benefit concert in Nashville.  Also, see the Facebook page for this event.

Visiting Orphans: China Trips for 2011

Visiting Orphans is a Christian nonprofit that organizes teams of volunteers to minister to orphans in many countries all over the world. Currently they are recruiting volunteers to serve in China for the following trips set for 2011:

March 31st – April 10th to Fushun

June 22nd – July 3rd to Chaoyang  

July 23rd – August 3rd to Chifeng

The missions teams don't go in with an agenda, they go in to serve and to love.  Much of the time is spent holding infants who need the love and attention or playing  games with toddlers and older children.  These trips can truly be a life-changing and unforgettable experience. To find out more information on these trips and future trips to other countries, go to: www.visitingorphans.org

Visiting Orphans: Upcoming Trip to China

Visiting Orphans is a Christian nonprofit that organizes teams of volunteers to minister to orphans in many countries all over the world. They are currently looking for individuals to join us as they work with orphans in Hunan, China from September 7th - September 17th, 2010. Although the Social Welfare Institutes in China do all that they can to provide the best life for the children living there, assistance and help is still needed.  The missions teams don't go in with an agenda, they go in to serve and to love.  Much of the time is spent holding infants who need the love and attention they deserve, or playing hide-n-seek with a group of six year old boys.  It will truly be a life-changing and unforgettable experience. To find out more information on this trip and future trip to China and other countries, go to: www.visitingorphans.org

Visiting Orphans: Gividen Family

Visiting Orphans is a Christian nonprofit that organizes teams of volunteers to minister to orphans in many countries all over the world. To find out more details visit the website:  http://visitingorphans.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=33967. The Gividen family has adopted a boy and a girl from China and America World. They have been leading Visiting Orphans trips to China and have shared their story here:

With two bio-kids in tow, my wife Elizabeth and I answered God’s call and adopted Linsey from the Hunan province in December 2004.  A year and a half later we were blessed with Lucas from Hainan, China.  With four kids our family seems complete, but who knows!

 

God’s desire for the Gividen family to help orphans find their forever families has led us to the Social Welfare Institute (orphanage) in Chaoyang, China.  Neither Luke nor Linsey is from this particular institution, but that’s ok.  As a family, God has directed us to this wonderful, but needy place in the Liaoning province.  I say “wonderful”, because of the love the nannies and director have for the children, “needy” for an endless number of reasons that goes far beyond economics.

 

We return each summer not to adopt more Gividens, but to love and serve in any way we can.  We have been blessed to work with three amazing teams of Americans who also felt called to this heaven-touched place.

 

The fourth team will be going to China June 22-July 3, 2010.  I will be the leader and there are some veterans of previous trips who will also attend.  Unquestionably one of the greatest joys of this ministry is the chance to meet new like-minded orphan lovers!  Join us!  Estimated cost is $3200.  When the LORD calls, He provides.

In addition to the trip to Chaoyang, Visiting Orphans is sponsoring trips to China on these 2010 dates :

 

Heng Feng: June 4^th to the 14^th

Chaoyang: June 22 – July 3

Chen Zhou: July 7 – July 17^th

Chen Zhou: Sept. 8 – Sept. 18

 

Families interested in learning more about these trips or future trips can visit the Visiting Orphans website.

Sincerely,

Mark Gividen

March 2010 Mission Trip to Costa Rica

Visiting Orphans is leading a mission trip to work with two orphanages in Limon, Costa Rica from March 3rd to March 10th, 2010. 
 
Visiting Orphans, is working in partnership with PANI, the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia. PANI is an organization in Costa Rica which protects the rights of children and adolescents. This includes the rights to health care, education, justice, work, culture and recreation, and the right to a safe and healthy family life.  We will visit two orphanages each day in the port town of Limon on the Caribbean Coast.  Port towns have many issues and one of the greatest problems in Limon is family life due to the instability of the area. 

Costa Rica is one of the most bio-diverse countries on the planet.  Its natural beauty is stunning and its beaches breathtaking.  However, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica in the port town of Limon there is something that is breathtaking in a different way.  There are kids sleeping in the streets, there are problems with drugs and prostitution, the Afro-Caribbean population there that originally came from the Caribbean islands has been forgotten by the central Costa Rican government.  Social programs are seldom seen and the ones that do exist have a difficult time getting resources. 

Fortunately, there are two orphanages in the port town of Limon that fight hard to take care of the town’s youth.  Run by an energetic woman by the name of Gabriella, these two orphanages offer hope to children from broken families.  Not only hope but education, justice, recreation, access to health care, culture and recreation.  Limon is one of the locations in Costa Rica with the most needs.  This town is still very much 3rd world and these orphanages rarely receive mission teams, if ever.

Your support and action are necessary to the advancement of these young children and teens.  At the moment there are 48 orphans in two orphanages in Limon that will be readily anticipating the arrival of Visiting Orphans in March. 
 
We will be staying in a town called Cahuita.  It is a coastal town on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica that borders a National Park.  It has a laid back atmosphere and it utterly stunning in its coastal beauty.  Turquoise tropical waters caress white and black sand beaches right outside the hotel that will soothe your heart allowing time for reflection every morning and afternoon.  

Most of our time will be spent in the port city of Limon where we will participate in activities with the local Orphanages. This is a time to put the love of Christ into action by ministering to orphans. We will be doing all kinds of projects that may include anything from painting murals to gardening to playing sports with the kids, arts & crafts, holding them, playing games, teaching them about Jesus, and music.

The orphanages need school supplies off all kinds, from pen and pencils to books.  They also need diapers and towels, educational toys and infant, kids and teen clothing.  This team will work to collect and deliver these needs to the orphanages.  The ages of the children range from infants to 16 years of age.
  
This team will also connect and work with a ministry to the local indigenous Bri-Bri people of Costa Rica and a ministry to local surfers in the area.

There will also be some time for some sightseeing activities as well - including a guided tour of the National Park in Cahuita one morning and on our final day in Costa Rica - we will go white water rafting on one of the top 5 rivers on the planet for rafting. This river cuts through virgin rainforest so the scenery is stunning. For those of you who choose not to raft, you can choose to visit a museum or a local pineapple plantation.

The cost is only $1800 per person.
 
We would love for you to join us on this life changing mission trip.  To learn more or apply for this trip please click here.

Give Christmas Away

We are so filled with love during the Christmas season as our loved ones pour into us and us into them.  Usually we return to the New Year with that wonderful warm fuzzy full feeling that we are loved, secure and that we have a family to call home.  But not for everyone….  Millions of children around the world don’t even know it’s Christmas or what in the world that could mean to them.  Would you give this love in your heart away in 2010 by traveling to pour it into the orphans of this world? 

If so, Visiting Orphans, a mission sending agency, needs you.  They have designed trips to lead teams into orphanages all over the world with just this purpose in mind.   When you travel with them to  Ethiopia you even get to help work at the America World transitional home.  They are also offering two trips to Southern China’s Hunan Region! You could return to the region where you once adopted or hope to and invest in the children who may never have the opportunity for a family.   You can also visit the wonderful ministry of Amazima on a trip to Uganda.  Or visit the children in the port town of Limon, Costa Rica this March who rarely, if ever receive teams to help.  

Visiting Orphans is also leading trips to Ecuador, Ghana, Rwanda, El Salvador and Honduras. 

To learn more or join a Visiting Orphans trip, please click here.

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