When I first heard the voicemail from Bair, I thought we were going to have to decline again, because it's over the weekend we're going camping with some friends, but through a frenzy of back and forth texts and IMs with Jason (in God's perfect, yet inexplicable timing I got the call on the way to school today, the one day of the week I have 3 classes and Jason has back to back to back to back meetings), we decided to at least ask if we could take him camping, and they said, "yes!"
So, T is a 16 year old boy. He has a foster family in the area, but they have a commitment to a family event out of the country, and you can't take foster kids out of the country, so we get him for a few days!
Please pray for all of us. T has had a hard life. His father is dead. His mother is in prison. His grandparents raised him, but have passed away. He was passed on to some other relatives who weren't equipped to care for a teenage boy, so he's landed in foster care -- and for a brief season he'll be in our home.
Please pray that we will love him and make him feel loved. Please pray that we will all be physically well during this time, so we can treat him to a wonderful, family camping trip. And most importantly, please thank God for working all things together so that we could share a few days with this boy.
I'm so excited!
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change."
(James 1:17)
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