2016 Rummage Sale Raised over $5400 for Loerop's Adoption

The rummage sale raised $5468 this past weekend for the Loerop family's adoption expenses. 

Praise God for his goodness!

Pictured above are some of the kids adopted by our church families that these rummage sales have helped.

 Thanks to everyone who helped out.

Rummage Sale - Friday & Saturday May 13 & 14

Friday, May 13 (8-2pm)

Saturday, May 14 (8-noon)

ORLAND PARK CHURCH

7500 W Sycamore Drive

Every day, all over the world and in our communities, there are children that are living alone.  These children were created in God's image.  They were not meant to live in dumps, fields, alleys, streets, and parks.  They have been abandoned, usually due to issues beyond their control, like AIDS, war, and extreme poverty.

It is absolutely heartbreaking, but there is hope! You and I, we can be that hope.  We can get involved in their story, show them love, and restore their hope.  Through this rummage sale for orphans, you can play a huge part.

DONATE

Donate anything that you don't need or want, and that you are willing to sacrifice.  Drop-off times:  Wednesday, May 11, 5-7 pm and Thursday, May 12 7-9 pm in the Family Life Center.

GIVE

Give monetary donations.  ALL proceeds of the rummage sale will go to help orphans in our community and around the world.

HELP

We can make a difference!  Come volunteer to set up or work the sale, or donate some baked goods.

Orphan Sunday / HHH Auction & International Dinner Fundraiser

Thank you to everyone for their support and loving care of the orphans and children in need of care.  Your support at our auction night raised more than $16,000 dollars to help these children and their needs. With praise and thanksgiving to our wonderful God, we thank you with a grateful heart.

 

Come Support the His Heart and Hands Orphan Ministry at our International Dinner and Auction -- Saturday, October 17th

Come join us for some tasty food and help support the children through the His Heart and Hands orphan ministry auction.  We hope you can join us for both of these parts of the nights events, but  if you can only make one part of the night please be sure to come!

5:00pm-6:00pm International Dinner Buffet & Silent Auction


6:15pm-8:30pm Live Auction (Childcare provided)

JUNE 21-JULY 19 OPPORTUNITY TO DONATE BOOKS FOR PRESCHOOL AGE 3-5 CHILDREN IN LESOTHO, AFRICA

In March of this year, Carol Bosma traveled with Haven CRC (Zeeland, MI) to Beautiful Gate Orphanage in Lesotho, Africa. This orphanage is home to 65 orphaned children ages birth - 5 years old.  Theses children are waiting to be adopted.  In Lesotho they speak both Basotho and English.  These children love books; and reading books helps with learning English.  The orphanage has plenty of baby books so they have no need for story books for this age. They are in need of hard cover (they last longer than soft cover) story books for preschool age 3-5.  Preferred books are new or like new condition so they can last through many reads.

There will be a box in Orland Park Church narthex June 21-July 19 to collect book donations.  If you prefer to give a monetary donation toward purchasing books, please put that in Carol Bosma's mail slot.

Thanks for everyone's support of the Rummage Sale - $7060 Raised for Gil's Adoption

What's Been Happening These Last Few Months

HONDURAS TRIP - We will be be taking a group down to Honduras to visit two orphanages and do some light projects from January 17 to 24, 2015. This is a great inter-generational trip for anyone age 12 or over. Please email jan@opcrc.org soon if you would like to go. It's a life-changing experience!
NEEDED - If you have any wheeled luggage that you no longer need,  we would love to use it to transport things down to Honduras. Please contact Jan Kamp if you can help.
We will also be taking down pop-can tabs that the girls use to make purses and travel-size soap, shampoo, toothbrushes, etc.

ORPHAN SUNDAY THANK YOU -  We are so grateful for so many of you who came to the Orphan Sunday services and the International Dinner. Thank you for all the support and encouragement you have given to the Orphan Ministry over the past 6 years.
Linda shared with us about the upside and the downside of visiting the sponsored children in Honduras. She talked about how 2 of the older girls had left the orphanage and ended up in trafficking.  Well, this week we received word from Arvil that one of the girls came back.  She said she realized that Arvil and Miriam are the only people who truly showed her love. Praise God for answers to prayer.

THESE 400 UPDATE - On Orphan Sunday,, Allison spoke on church about These 400, the project through Bethany Christian Services to find homes for 400 special needs and aging- out children. We found out this week that 70 of the 400 have found homes! Praise God!
Please keep praying for a home for Nicholas, the little boy from Bulgaria with Down's syndrome.

RAISE THE ROOF PROJECT - THANK YOU to so many of you who took an envelope to help raise the funds to replace the roof on Hogar Amor Orphanage.  So far, about 75% of the funds have already come in, so we are close to getting things going.  We're grateful to God for the amazing response to this special need!

BETHANY ANNUAL PICNIC - was again another beautiful enjoyable picnic at Camp Manitoqua. Families blessed by children adopted into their families and those caring for SafeFamilies children enjoyed food, fellowship and a demonstration from a local class of kids doing Taekwondo.

BACKPACK DRIVE - We are grateful for all the contributions towards all the school supplies that we were able to give to SafeFamilies.  These supplies will benefit the futures of many children.

TRAFFICK FREE 5K - a group from our church participated in the 5K walk to expand the awareness of the trafficking that goes on here in our own cities and communities.  We are learning more about how we can help and care for these girls and giving them a better future.

Praising God for your heart for the fatherless and HHH Orphan Ministry!
His Heart and Hands Orphan Ministry Task Force

Update from the Rummage Sale & 500 or Bust Bra Drive

The rummage sale that was held May 9th and 10th to raise funds to help families during their process to adopt a child either domestically or internationally was a huge success yet again.  We would like to thank everyone who helped us by either donating items or sorting and selling.  We are very grateful for all of the support and would like to thank all involved.



This year, the Orphan ministry has begun to get involved in the area of sex trafficking both locally and abroad.  Trafficking affects the lives of many vulnerable children, especially young girls.  We joined together with Free the Girls and hosted a Bra Drive with the hopes of collecting 500 bras for survivors of trafficking.  Free the Girls is a non-profit organization that helps women who have been rescued from human trafficking, many of whom were sold into prostitution when they were only 8-10 years old.  Because their lives were stolen from them, they missed out on going to school and getting an education.  Selling second-hand bras allows them to respectfully earn an income, rebuild their lives ad support their children.


We are happy to announce that we exceeded our goal of 500 and donated 887 bras to the Duneland Community Church in Chesterton, IN.  We would like to give a huge thank you to all who contributed!  Thank you, thank you thank you!!!

His Heart & Hands Rummage Sale May 9th & 10th Fundraising Event

SPRING CLEANING IS UPON US AND SO IS THE ANNUAL HIS HEART and HANDS' RUMMAGE SALE! 


FRIDAY, MAY 9th from 8 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. and SATURDAY, MAY 10th from 8 a.m. - Noon at the Orland Park Christian Reformed Church, 7500 West Sycamore Drive, Orland Park, IL. 


PLEASE CONSIDER CLEANING OUT YOUR CLOSETS AND DRAWERS FOR A WORTHY CAUSE!  We will be raising funds for adoptive families.  We will be looking for item donations, volunteers, baked goods, and buyers so think about how you can participate. More details coming soon!

OVERWHELMED BY THE HEARTS, LOVE AND GENEROSITY OF MANY at our recent auction on October 26

So WOW!!  God continues to bless this ministry and the children who will know God's love through your love and generosity.

Over $14,000 raised to help orphans, children in foster care, single parent families, and many more children who need to know that someone cares about them!  When God's people come together and serve those in need we can be sure miracles will happen!

Everyone who baked, made food, crafted an item, built an item, purchased an item, donate in anyway, came out for the dinner, bid on items, prayed for the auction event; whatever part and role you participated in is a part that we could not have done without.

"The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'  Matthew 25:40

We now have the BIG and WONDERFUL task and privilege of find ways to spend these funds to help a lot of extraordinary kids!

HHH Task Force would like to extend a big THANK YOU from our hearts to yours!