With 150 million orphans in the world, we should be seeing a dramatic increase in the number of orphans who are adopted every year in the United States. But sadly, the opposite is true. Adoptions have been decreasing every year since 2004. A new article in the May edition of Christianity Today says this, "Since 2004, these…

My buddy, Brad Riley of IEmpathize, is in Mexico City right now. If you remember, Brad was with me in Moldova and Russia during our last trip. He'll be involved with the Mexican equivalent of the FBI, doing some brother raids and rescuing girls who have been trafficked. Watch this video and pray for him…

Ohio's Dirty Little Secret. My friend, Larry Bergeron of A Child's Hope International, sent me an article about blatant sex trafficking that occurs throughout Ohio. I was completely shocked to find out that Ohio doesn't even have a state law to make trafficking a felony! So much of this is combatted at the governmental levels. No…

I've become good friends with Nicole Wick over the past few years. She's part of the tight circle of folks I've become close to through blogging. What a world we live in!  She was adopted from an orphanage in Saigon a week before Vietnam fell. You can read about her story by clicking here . Had she not been…

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