The Kansas City Children's Haven

Today is a sweet sweet day for me. Today I hold in my hands a beautiful document with signature and approval of Sen of State Robin Carnahan enstating The Kansas City Children's Haven a true corporation.

This is a year and a half in coming. A year and a half ago I began to dream up a place for the orphaned in KC to find a home. It has been a year and a half of watching impossibilities become realities....so many more impossibilities ahead to conquer. TODAY I STOP TO CELEBRATE!!!!!

Oh...what is The Kansas City Children's Haven?

It is a soon to be opened day center in the inner city of KC,MO meant to reach children considered to be at risk in our city. Homeless, foster care, and single parent families below poverty level. It will start out as a 12 hour day center for preschool aged children. It will be a non-profit, in which any profit will be given to scholarships for the children. They will be taught with the quality of a private preschool, but at no great expense to them. The will be daily wrapped in the love of Christ and be found experiencing His great love for them.....

So what's happened so far? Those impossibilites turned real?

Examples of Goodness:

Board members so to become a non-profit: Got them!
Non-profit status, didn't know how to go about it: UMKC law dept is filing it all for me: FOR FREE!

Business minds(b/c yes I am a "mama," and no I am not a business woman: A kind man from the BR in the business program at UMKC is submitting it for review and scrutiny- this is actually a good thing because they will then tell me what about my plan seems feesable and what needs tweaking.

Filing articles of incorporation: In hand today!

And for prayer, here is the current "impossibility" (Nothing is impossible! It is actually quite probable!):
FUNDING! I need it! I do not know how to go after it. I open my hands to receive!

The Preschool Power Houses!

I wanted to give you a preview of where our darling preschool power houses come each Sunday. There will indeed be stories posted here quite soon of all the wonder of these mighty sons and daughters of the King! (To my own sadness, I cannot be in both rooms at once.....so it may seem to you in reading this blog that not much goes on with these wee ones. NOT TRUE! These are our little secret princes and princesses being raised up for His Kingdom. Be excited for what is to come!)

I also wanted to post these pics to thank my dear friend Beth Witte for donating her time, love and beautifully painted mural to our kids! Every Sunday the banner over their lives is the satisfying love of Christ!

Holy Bird!

This week our memory verse has been:
Romans 8:16 For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God's children. (But if you ask Pearl, it is the Holy Bird who speaks deep in our hearts! Hehe!)

One of the most encouraging things I learned when beginning to pray for sick and wounded kids all over the world and all around me was this: John 5:19 "Jesus replied, "I assure you, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does."


I want the kids to understand that Jesus didn't just do all the miracles he did because he's God, but because His father gave him the power to do them as a human just like us. That means we get Daddy God's power to do the things Jesus did too!

So we jumped in the sea of Galilee(picture silky blue sashes all over the floor). And we imagined ourselves right there with Jesus as John dunked him under the clear blue and lifted him up. We watched as the "Holy Bird" (handmade bird stuffed beauty) came down on each one of us. We listened as Daddy God called us by name to say, "You are my much loved child and I am so pleased with you!"

 

Thank you Holy Spirit for coming on us every day to tell us we're God's kids!