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16 May

Cheering Section at the Orange City Tulip Festival Road Race 2016

The MOCHA Kiwanis Club has presented us with an opportunity to raise funds for Katelyn’s Fund, and at the same time, participate in the Orange City Tulip Festival Road Race event which will be held May 21 (the Saturday of Tulip Festival). They will mail a check to Katelyn’s Fund for $250.00 the week following Tulip Festival if we can commit to participating in the following manne ...

03 May

Testimony Tuesday

Mark and Jeri Iwasaki Family Son – Zy Church – Calvary Chapel Wahiawa located in Wahiawa, Oahu (Hawaii) Our adoption journey started in May of 2014 when we filled out paperwork with Hawaii International Child to pursue adopting a Chinese child. Throughout the journey, we were constantly exercising faith, as we did not have the financial means to continue along the path. However, through the generosity of friends, family, and strangers, God provided. In the midst of aggressive fundraising, we...

28 Apr

Letter to my son’s birth mom

  This past week was my son Judah’s first birthday! As a family we have been celebrating his life everyday since we brought him home at 10 days old! I have not had the privilege of meeting or talking to his birth mom yet. An open adoption was what she thought she wanted but when it came time to meet, she was unable to follow through with that plan. I can totally understand this, especially because her pregnancy was the...

19 Apr

Testimony Tuesday

The Haoyung and Jenny Chien Family Children – Stephen (6),  ShenaLi Xie (Little Li) (8) Church – The Bridge Church in West Palm Beach, Florida We are the Chien family and we are excited to share the journey of faith our family has been on in the past year!  In the spring of 2014 my husband and I began pursuing and praying about adoption, which is something that has been on our hearts for quite some time.  When discussing adoption, we felt called...

07 Apr

Laughter Is Good Medicine!

I recently picked up my 12 and 14 year old sons, along with their cousin, from a youth group night of fun with the other boys in their church group. They had a lot of fun with this group and when they got in the car my 12 year old was giddy with laughter. He just couldn’t stop laughing. ...