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Friday, July 31, 2009 

Current mood:  excited


Next Tuesday, August 4th Christian Broadcasting Network’s daily program the 700Club will feature a segment on the grand opening of MBHOH. A local Chinese film crew was on hand for the grand opening of MBHOH several weeks ago, and the piece will feature Steven Curtis Chapman and his family on their trip to Luoyang, China for the exciting opening of this wonderful special needs orphanage.


Funded by Show Hope, this 60,000 square foot, 6 story facility will care for special needs children in the Henan province, one of the poorest areas of China. MBHOH will offer these special children medical care, physical therepy and even life impacting surgery.

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Thursday, July 30, 2009 
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Show Hope is now on Twitter! You can follow us on twitter and invite others to follow us at http://twitter.com/ShowHopeNow. You'll receive the latest news in the world of Show Hope, daily prayers so that we can come before God on behalf of orphans around the world, and even statistics and information about the plight of orphans. You can also spread the word and keep updated using the Twitter widget below (requires Flash 9 or higher):

 

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 
For ongoing posts from the Show Hope/Shaohannah's Hope team, check out Kerry Hasenbalg's blogs at:
http://kerryhasenbalg.typepad.com/
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Saturday, April 26, 2008 
By Kerry Hasenbalg

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows." -1 Corinthians 1:3-5
 
When I carried my daughter full-term and lost her in a miscarriage, I dealt with a lot of grief and pain.  Since then I have felt healed in many ways, and I do not want to go back to the great grief for the fear of undoing the joy and healing. However, the pain of others takes you back, but it is then that God ministers. Amazing. Yes, the great wounds do heal, but when we look at the huge scar that remains on our bodies, we remember so vividly, as if we can feel it all over again. But I believe this is the reason we have scars, so that we will empathize enough to care and comfort others—to comfort with the same comfort with which God, himself, has comforted us.
 
Only the big wounds and deep cuts leave a scar large enough to be noticed and reveal to the world that we are broken too. We are the broken body… "This is my body broken for you, do this in remembrance of me." To be broken for the sake of the brethren: this is why Jesus carried the scars of the cross on his resurrected body—not just for doubting Thomas, but as a mark of his empathetic example to us. We are His broken body here, waiting, as a living sacrifice, fellowshipping in His suffering. "Jesus said to them, 'You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with…'." (Mark 10:39). 
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Monday, April 21, 2008 
By Kerry Hasenbalg

"He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake" –Psalm 23:3

The Shepherd promises to lead us, His sheep, in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. How can we be attuned to His voice so that we might walk in those paths for His glory and for the sake of the orphans whom God has called us to love?

Perhaps the reason we are not hearing God is found in our lack of genuine love and forgiveness towards one another—towards those around us.  We have put up barriers between us and the body of Christ, and now we can no longer hear Him who is the head of the Body. Are we choosing to be so contentious and judgmental that we have brought turmoil to our own houses, and consequently, our husband redeemer has been forced to the far corners of our lives? And now we can no longer make out what He is saying from the corner of the rooftop?  

We ask God, "Why won't you empower our work in ministry, why won't you speak to us and dwell with us, your bride?" Perhaps God is answering us by saying, "Because while you are choosing to be contentious and argue with one another, it is better for me, your husband redeemer, to live on the corner of the rooftop.  I have not divorced you, but I cannot dwell with you. This is because you will not choose love, unity, forgiveness, considering others better than yourself, speaking the truth in genuine love, and making allowance for the faults of others.  For these are the tools I have shared with you, so that you could bring peace to my home. And still you choose to wrongly control me with your self-pity, judgment of others, impatience and self-exaltation. As a result you bring strife and depression to my house.  I still choose to love you because of the covenant I made with you, and I am a faithful husband, so I will not choose another. However, as I have told you, it is better for me to live on the corner of the roof of my own dwelling place than to dwell with you (Prov. 21:9).  Please remember that while you continue to choose your own selfish ways, my children are being left unattended and are being harmed!"

For our own sake, for the sake of God's children, and for His name's sake, may we choose to humble ourselves, repent of our sins, forgive one another, and then step out in genuine love for others. God has clearly told us that those who are in Christ are our brothers and sisters, so we cannot disown them if we are to stay in the family ourselves.  God has also clearly told us that He is the Father to the fatherless, and if we are His bride, they are our children also.  Just as we desire our own households to be at peace and for our children to get along, so too is this God's great desire for His family.  If we will help bring peace to the Father's house, He will come and dwell with us and begin to tell us wonderful things.  
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Monday, April 14, 2008 
By Kerry Hasenbalg

"The word of the LORD came to me: 'Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people'." –Ezekiel 12:1-3

Hearing God is vitally important not just for our own lives, but also for our ministry to those in need.  We must not forget that God is the father to the fatherless, so if we are involved in caring for the ones He has claimed as His own children, we must give God the same respect we would want someone to give us when dealing with our children.  If I was entrusting my children to someone for a time, I would give specific instructions on how to care for them.  Although we love all of our own children the same, we certainly do not treat them all exactly the same, because each is unique; with individual desires, allergies, talents, fears, etc.  We must honor God when dealing His children and seek His permission and direction in caring for each of them.  Therefore, it is necessary for us to be able to hear God's instructions for each orphan child to whom we are called to minister.

Perhaps we must strain now to hear His voice because for so long we really didn't want to hear what He was saying to us. Have we tuned him out? My mom thinks I don't hear her sometimes, and yet if she only understood that even her whispers are like screams to me. Why? Because she is my mom, and I have been trained to hear and take heed to my parents' voices.  Her opinion matters to me; whether I like all her opinions or not. I often tell her, "Please don't say it if it's going to hurt me unless you absolutely must, because I can't ignore or forget whatever you say, even if I act as if I am ignoring it."  But too often we refuse to hear what our parents are saying for one reason or another and can actually train our ears to tune them out by practicing to ignore their words. We train our ears rightly or wrongly both with people and with God.

If you sense you are being called into orphans ministry, remember that if you want God's power to affect change in the lives of the fatherless, you must be sure you are obeying what the Spirit is saying in your own life so that your ear is attuned to His gentle leadings for theirs. Before you can take the second step, you must take the step of obedience first.  Perhaps you are still blind to see a certain sin or simply blindly refusing to rid yourself of some sin, and as a result God will not give you more instruction for the next part of your journey. He does this simply to keep you from stumbling along any farther.  Perhaps we must cast off something from our own heavy load of sin before we can be equipped for any successful journey into the fields of the fatherless.  We certainly wouldn't want to take things along with us that can bring harm to these little ones.
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Monday, April 07, 2008 
By Kerry Hasenbalg

"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me." - John 10:27

The great cry of so many believers is to hear the voice of God.  We desire for God to speak to our hearts directly.  Does God even speak to us in this present age through His Holy Spirit? In scripture, we read over and over again the great plea of God to His people, "He who has ears, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to His Church."

I believe that God speaks to us continually in this present age: directly to our hearts through the Holy Spirit, through His Word, through other members of His body, and through His creation. The issue is whether or not we are ready, willing and attuned to hearing His voice. The word reveals that it is critically important to God that we hear what He is saying to us, particularly as it relates to his instructions on how we are to love and meet the needs of His other children and to trust Him to meet our own needs. 

Is it that in our pride we take credit for those great and profound things we do and say, altogether missing the fact that it was the Holy Spirit who led us to do and say them in the first place? People often ask me how I know it is God speaking these things to me, and my simple answer is that I am acutely aware that I could not have come up with such wonderful things on my own. The more and more we come to terms with the weakness of our own flesh, the more we are able to distinguish the author of those things that flow through us. 
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 
"I will exalt you, O LORD, for you lifted me out of the depths and did not let my enemies gloat over me. O LORD my God, I called to you for help and you healed me." -Psalm 30:1-2

About four days after losing my child, I found myself in a desperate place of mourning once again – pain so thick I thought I could not bear it.  I cried out to God and asked Him to please answer me in His Word.  Lying on my bed, I opened my Bible straight to Psalm 30 and looked straight down at the words:  "Weeping may last for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning."  My husband and I cried ourselves to sleep and when we awoke the tears were gone and we were able to love and serve our two other children that day.  
 
I can remember thinking after the loss of my first daughter, "I could never handle having a still born child or losing a child after birth," (my dear friend and next door neighbor had experienced both).  But, now having delivered a full-term stillborn daughter, I know that this is still true. I could not live through this alone – but with God carrying me through the fire, somehow I have survived.  Different, more humble, more broken, more needy, but full of breath and willing to continue to serve the One who carried me through. 

 
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 
By Kerry Hasenbalg

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child..." –1 Cor.13:11a
 
I heard our five year old son, Cole, singing the song "Holy is the Lord",  but when he got to the lyrics, "God almighty," he sang "Calamari" instead: "Holy is the Lord, Calamari!" Children.
 
So I said, "Cole, you are supposed to sing, ’God almighty’ because He is the Holy Lord. Calamari is the fried squid that daddy likes to eat."
 
After he laughed at his mistake, he then returned to singing, but this time using the right words.
 
This incident reminded me again that we, like children, can be gravely mistaken when trying to understand and express what we believe to be the messages of God.  So may we be as teachable and humble as children when it comes to being wrong and corrected by others.
 
May we be able to receive correction, laugh at ourselves, and then return to worshipping and sharing about God as best we can. For in a similar way to earthly parents, God is pleased by purity and humility of heart far more than our getting it right.
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Monday, March 17, 2008 
By Kerry Hasenbalg

"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want." -Phil. 4:12

I love to ski.  Especially moguls. Skiing moguls successfully is not unlike succeeding in riding the bumps of life and not being broken in the process. Absorbing them with bent knees is the key, rather than tensing up and fighting against the bumps.  Because taking the bumps with flexibility makes the ride fun, but tensing up, seeking to protect oneself causes great harm to your body.  Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be broken.  

We have had to learn to be flexible the last few months, trying to survive all the changes in our lives.  Trust God; He is good.  It may not always seem that way, but He is, and He will take you through.  The critical importance for protection in taking the bumps of life is to keep your knees bent... on our knees in prayer that is. May we not become anxious when we find ourselves on bumpy roads.  Instead, as the Word teaches, we must bring all things to the Lord through prayer and supplication, and He shall guard us from harm.  We can then lean back and enjoy the ride.
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