cool links

it isn't very often in this space that i veer too far from our own family happenings.  cuz' all of that is just so riveting all by itself that it's hard to detour. right?  wrong...but still....

there is this organization in Haiti, however, that has me doing just that on this particular week.  Heartline Ministries is doing so much right there within that country that we love...  i wish i had piles and piles of money to write them one of those big ol' checks you see people standing with when they've received a large sum of money....Heartline is true and effective orphan care in the sense that it strives to prevent an orphan crisis from happening in the first place.  it is educating, training, supporting, empowering woman to love and care for themselves and their babies both in utero and once born.  it is coming along side a pregnant woman before, during and after birth.  plus, it is so much more, and it is changing lives for many who may have experienced an entirely different outcome if not for Heartline's loving investment.  cool to see and read about them and the work they do....
anyway, the Livesay's are a family i don't really know personally, but feel like i do.  i've read their blog for years.  (i'd be that creepy person who'd recognize them at a mall one day and run up and hug them, without them having any clue who i was.  for their sake, i hope it never happens...) back to their blog~ i love following their open and honest conversations about life in Haiti and parenting many kids and being followers of Christ....they are slogging it out in Haiti at Heartline Ministries, doing the day-in-day-out hard stuff that is making a real difference~ a difference that is not always easy to measure or see.  this two-part story i've linked to below is a small window into their experiences there, and it moved me.  hope it does you as well...

Part 1

Part 2