Spencer

Can you help?

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Spencer needs a family. He was just recently transfered to a mental institution in Russia.

Will he be tied inside a crib? As terrible as that would be, maybe that would be better then being lost among the older boys.

Boys who have not known love, boys who know how to hit, bite and scratch themselves and others, because at least then they are feeling something.

How often will be be fed? I bet he is potty trained, but will he be put in a diaper, changed once a day?

His report says he is healthy, no heart defect...healthy lungs, smart and capable of learning, loving and affectionate.

What is he thinking now? Life in the baby orphanage was not ideal, but it was all he knew. He looks like he was physically well taken care of there.

He must be scared, wondering where the other kids he played with went. The adults there different, the smells and sounds are different.

He doesn't know there are people thousands of miles away, praying his safety and health (around 80% of the children transferred to mental institutions die in the first year), praying for a family to go save him, praying someone is touching him with love and that he somehow is happy today. He doesn't know.

Poor sweet, loving, innocent boy, among the lost.

None of them belong there.

This child does not belong there.

He belongs in a family, they all belong in families.

It is to late for many of them, they are lost in a corrupt, broken, poor system.

But it is not to late for Spencer, and so many others.

Visit www.reecesrainbow.org

See their faces.

Spencer is still legally available for adoption. Yes, the travel to get him is expensive, but he has many people willing to help raise funds. He already has over $5,000 in his fund. He just needs a family to commit. Be willing to hop on that plane and take a leap of faith. And love him, for better and for worse, forever.

Being an adoptive mother, I know adoption isn't easy.

Being a birth mother of a child who has Down Syndrome,

I know that isn't always easy either.

But oh my the joys outweigh the little inconveniences by 1000%.

You don't have to adopt to help.

Pray, tell people about Reece's Rainbow, post this little ones

pictures on your blogs, websites, facebook, hold a fundraiser (a bake sale,

garage sale, raffle at your church or kids school for their adoption account

and donate if you can.

I am going to advocate for one or two children at a time,

keep at it until they are home. Home.

Will you help me?

If Christ knocked on your door, holding this child and asked you to help,

would you?

He won't come to your front door, but He is knocking.....