Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yiRlKVNcag&feature=youtu.be
Hope Link is the non-profit we started in memory of Ellie Kate. Along with Scott and Amy Haas, we started growing into a support group for mommas of kids with rare, serious and undiagnosed disorders. Since we began, we've added new groups, new events and new opportunities for entire families to be involved. We support our Hope Link families in many ways, such as scholarships to medical conferences, and like this year, adopting a few of our families who most need assistance this Christmas. It's beautiful to watch what THE LORD has done. He alone gets the glory, ya'll.
Hope Link is BEYOND important to us, Friends. It is our life as a family. It is our mission as a family. We try to live it out on a daily basis. It's a ministry God dropped into our laps once Ellie Kate was born - once we were thrown into the world of special needs. It's an entirely different world with entirely different heartaches and struggles. We have different goals and aspirations. The life of the special-needs family is unlike most families you see because, even though we want to fit in and participate, we will always, somehow be different . . . a person in a foreign land. Hope Link gives special-needs parents a place to speak the same language.
If you weren't able to purchase gifts in time for Ellie Kate's Month of Reckless Love, please consider buying a gift for a Hope Link family member this Christmas. Ten families have been adopted and this amazon wish list contains each and every gift that was listed by each family member. We ensure it will get to the family in time for Christmas, all wrapped and pretty, making them feel extra special and loved this Christmas.
Amazon Wish List: http://www.amazon.com/registry/giftlist/1O32SS218DBC9
Thank you for letting me share a part of Ellie Kate's legacy here with you tonight. HOPE, it's also part of Advent. Isn't it beautiful how The Lord intertwines so many things, working them into a beautiful, ornate picture, that on our own, we could never dream up?
Jesus, bring us HOPE this year. Bring it to my friends. Bring hope to all who read this blog. Bring your hope to the lost and dying world, Father. Help us BOLDLY share your hope with others this Christmas.
*THANK YOU to all who have been praying for Henry. We still don't have appointments or new connections, but we are praying that those things will happen soon. Will you pray that along with us? Henry went back to school today (he was out all last week), but he still isn't back to himself yet. His OCD is still very high and he has terrible separation anxiety, not wanting to leave my side. Please pray for the flare to settle, for his little brain to settle, for his heart to be completely comforted by the Holy Spirit. Your support means the world to us - you have NO idea how much a card, phone call, text, email, kind word means to a family like ours when we are in the "trenches". - Ryan
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