Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Choice

Yesterday I started a Giveaway. 

A Giveaway for 13 children on the Angel Tree who have been on Reece's Rainbow the longest.  The babes who have been passed over again and again. 

Look at my sidebar..... SEE THE HALL OF FAME NAMES OF THOSE WHO GAVE YESTERDAY!!  

21 people donated over 500.00 to the PASSED OVER BABES!!  THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

                                 Yegor                                        Sergei                                     Spencer 
        
                 Yegor's Christmas Warrior                Sergei's Warrior                    Spencer's Warrior- ME!!



I'm going to be honest.  Deciding which kids we should 'pick' for the Giveaway was beyond hard. 

I am LOUSY at choosing because I would just choose them all.  So after I received the e-mail with the Giveaway offer, I e-mailed Michelle at RR and asked her to give me a list of the kids who have been on the Angel Tree the longest.  She sent me her list and after I looked it over, I immediately set out to add MORE kids onto the list.  I had 21 kids on the list within just a short period of time.  Stopping there was agony.  But picking and choosing was also agony.  None of it was sitting right.  There were too many kids.  The goal was to give exposure to those kids who have just not been noticed.  With 21 babes on the list, there were too many kids.  So in the end and after talking to Debby - we decided to let it be a God-list instead of a Julia-list.  I took the list that Michelle gave me and THAT was the list of kids.  Removing kids from the list - MY PICKS - was hard.  Okay - it was agony.  I grieved to take them off. 



                                 Meredith                                      Nikita                                       Paul 
  
                         Meredith's Warrior                   

But after I looked at Michelle's list - after I put each child on the blog and linked them - I realized something rather sad and profound.  The vast majority of the kids on the list were babes I HAD NEVER REALLY NOTICED BEFORE.  I had passed them over them too. 


                        Robyn                                    Dimtry                                      Mark 
   
                      Robyn's Warrior                         Dimtry's Warrior

Dear Friends - THESE BABES NEED THIS EXPOSURE.... Next year most of the children pictured here will be too old for the Angel Tree.  They not only age out of their baby houses, they age up on Reece's Rainbow.  That means that they will receive even less exposure than they have now.  There are a ton of babes in the older sections on Reece's Rainbow who used to be on the Angel Tree.  They weren't adopted.  They just aged up. 

These PASSED OVER BABES NEED US!!


                               Jin Wu                                     Arina                                   Danila 
 
Jin Wu's Warrior                                                                  Danila's Warrior

Please donate and please share and share and share and share...  All of these babes have Christmas Warriors and some of those Warriors have their own Giveaways going.... So if you donated or are going to donate to ANY of the kids above.... click the links to their Christmas Warriors.   You may be pleasantly surprised to discover that your donation gets you double prize opportunities!!!


                                                                              Artem                               


SO HERE ARE THE DETAILS AGAIN....

We are doing a PASSED OVER BABES Giveaway...

WE HAVE 10 AMAZING PRIZES IN THIS GIVEAWAY!! 

You give FIVE DOLLARS to TWO OR MORE kids above and leave me a comment - I will enter your name in our Giveaway - ONE ENTRY FOR EVERY CHILD!! 

AND

AFTER YOU DONATE TO TWO OR MORE....

IF you BLOG about these kids..... you get another chance to win in our Giveaway.

AND/OR...

IF you FACEBOOK or TWITTER about these kids... you get another chance to win in our Giveaway.

Give FIRST, then share and share.....

Put their faces out there.  Let people know these are the PASSED OVER  BABES who have sat far too long on the Angel Tree.  THEY NEED FAMILIES. 


WHAT CAN YOU WIN???

 1.  A KINDLE TOUCH - (99.00 value)

2.  FLIP ULTRA HD VIDEO CAMERA 8 GB 3RD GENERATION - Newest Model (150.00 value)
Product Details

3.  100 DOLLAR GIFT CERTIFICATE TO THE VINTAGE PEARL
hand stamped jewelry
Each and every piece is handcrafted from start to finish in the studio. They use sterling silver and freshwater pearls in their creations!!


4.  A SIGNED COPY OF BIBLIOPLAN'S ANCIENT HISTORY BOOK (59.95 value)
by Rob and Julia Nalle


5.  A set of 4 hand-carved wooden Christmas ornaments (50.00 value) 
   



 6.  A 50 Dollar YOUR CHOICE Gift card 
7.  A 50 Dollar YOUR CHOICE Gift card
8.  A 25 Dollar YOUR CHOICE Gift card
9.  A 10 Dollar YOUR CHOICE Gift card
10.  A 10 Dollar YOUR CHOICE Gift card.


These YOUR CHOICE cards are to ANY store, restaurant, mall etc. that you desire. You tell us what you want and we will deliver!!  Amazon, Walmart, Cracker Barrel, Starbucks, Kohls, etc. etc.

Will you help the PASSED OVER BABES??

They have been on the Angel Tree since 2009. 


I know that many of you have ALREADY donated to some of these kids... I'm asking you to donate again.  Donate because all I am asking is for 5.00 for TWO OR MORE KIDS who have spent their lives being passed over.  Please - don't pass them by again.  NOTICE THEM.  Their pictures may be bad.  They may not be smiling.  Their descriptions may scare you off.  But they are PRECIOUS PRECIOUS BABES. 

Let's NOT pass them over again this year!!
  
THIS GIVEAWAY ENDS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9TH!!


If you have trouble leaving comments in Internet Explorer - then switch to another server (Google Chrome works great) or FB me... JULIA NALLE

14 comments:

  1. This is what it's ALL about. I don't have much, but I have something. And I owe everything I have to Him - and these little one's are His babies.

    Everyone knows I'm a sucker for the girlies...I donated to each of the little girls above. And with those four donations - prayers are included!

    I'm also sharing on FB right now!

    God bless you for doing this and sharing Gods heart for the orphan with all of us!

    Brooke
    www.TheAnnessaFamily.blogspot.com

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hi Julie,

    Thank you for today's post. I was very well written and gave a good explanation of why each child was listed. I have gone to A Perfect Lily and supported Robyn (and donated to her Ty fundraiser too since I was over there.) I also posted on my FB page and hope that gets more attention and awareness to these little boys and girls. Thank you again, Heather

    ReplyDelete
  3. Thank you, Julia , for all that you do for His children. I just want to scoop them all up and bring them home with me....we could get three or four in each bed, right? It breaks my heart to see them all. I could not "choose" one child to adopt this time, so I basically let Andrea choose for me (and she chose Andrey). I know that sounds crazy, but I literally could not "pick" one....I pray that all these babies find their mommas and poppas!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Hi Julia, I donated to Robyn via Patti's blog, but did my whole amount to her only. I also shared on Facebook! Thanks!
    Christina

    ReplyDelete
  5. Thank you for your sweet explanation of how you chose the children listed. These children are blessed to have such a compassionate advocate in their corner. Thanks for all you do.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Hi Julia! We donated to Yegor and Robyn. Oh Yegor is so sweet. Thanks for reminding us of these little ones.

    ReplyDelete
  7. I just donated to Danila, Paul, Robyn and Arina. I also donated to my own....Anastasia 3g...I know you can't include them all and I am praying that families step up for these passed over babes.

    Stephanie Lynch

    ReplyDelete
  8. Oh, my sweet friend, thank you for being a voice for the unheard. It was a hearbreaking choice, but after praying over each beautiful face, I was called to Danila and Paul and donated. I will continue to pray until each one has a family of their own.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Donated to Paul and Arina- and "my" Dmitry, of course! :) And I pray for them all!

    ReplyDelete
  10. I was just at A Perfect Lily and donated to the Kehm's and Robyn. I also posted on my FB page!! I am donating to Spencer and Danila over here!!
    :))
    Kirsten Westbrook

    ReplyDelete
  11. I know I already left a comment. I hope I did it right, I just donated $10 each to Danila and Spencer in the RR boxes on your blog and Moos Crossing. :)
    Kirsten
    I am sharing on facebook right now, too!!

    ReplyDelete
  12. One more comment from me. Lol Here's a link to my blogpost
    http://bringinghomeourgirls.blogspot.com/2011/11/forgotten-ones.html

    Praying for all these little ones' families to find them SOON!!
    Kirsten

    ReplyDelete
  13. I've also passed a lot of these faces by. Except for Spencer, I didn't recognize any of them until the Angel Tree started. :(

    I just donated for an ornament to Spencer (and Xenia because I can't resist her) as well as donating to my Danila again.

    ReplyDelete

Loving words from kind people make our hearts glad!