Pigs ARE flying all around and I am going halfway across the world without my husband and baby!

October 26, 2009
Watch out guys, pigs ARE flying all around and I am going halfway across the world without my husband and baby! Can you believe it? God has put this incredible and unexplainable burden in my heart to go love and hug on orphans. Su Cheng and I will be making this journey to New Delhi, INDIA together. We will be going sometime during the second half of January 2010 depending on ticket prices, work schedules, God’s timing and such.

We will be staying at one of the 90 HOPEGIVERS International orphanages in India. The particular one we will be staying in is in Rahasthan and is one of the largest homes in India with approximately 4,000 boys and girls ages 4 to 14. Hopegivers International, a faith-based, non-profit organization that is both non-governmental (NGO) and 501(c) 3 tax-exempt, exists to provide "help for today and hope for eternity." They rescue abandoned and orphaned children from lives of poverty and suffering in India, Malawi, and Haiti and then give them a chance to grow up as boys and girls who have the JOY and hope that comes from knowing Christ!

While we are there we PLAN on possibly teaching some of the young ladies of the bible college, painting the living quarters and showers of the orphanage, painting 2,000 little girls fingernails, teaching them a couple of dramas, songs and games, maybe some arts and crafts, but most of all, we plan on giving all of who we are to these boys and girls, whether it be serving meals, braiding hair, swinging them in circles, piggy back rides or great big bear HUGS, we will give our ALL.

Our GOAL is to raise as much money for the orphans of India as we can. We have a few ideas of how we will do it. I have designed (with the help of my little artists from kiddos church) some stationary we are trying to sell in time for the holidays as well as a 2010 calendar. All of the profit will be going directly to the orphans. We also will be holding a “salt wash” car wash in December pending there is a snowfall before then and again, all of the profit will be going directly to the orphans.

The money that we are going to send over can go so FAR….
$2 per kid for good flip-flops
$5 per kid for shoes
$10 per kid for clothes
$250 for washing machines
$250 for a bunk bed, mat, pillow and sheets
$300 for a love feast for the kids, that includes chicken and sweets etc
$600 for simple pump well
$2,000 for a drilled well and good water (which is much needed)
$17,500 can build a small children’s home for about 15 kids

We also would like to take some items over with us i.e. TOOTHBRUSHES, crayons, stickers, candy, or whatever we can take over for all of the kids.




I know you are dying to know how can you help? I am GLAD you asked. There are so MANY ways. Here are a few:

· Prayer. Prayer. Prayer.
· Donations of the above mentioned supplies.
· Prayer. Prayer. Prayer.
· Let the #1 item on your Christmas shopping list be the stationary we are selling or the 2010 calendar. (All of the profit goes to the orpahns.)
· Prayer. Prayer. Prayer.
· Let us wash the salt off your car in December.
· Prayer. Prayer. Prayer.
· Donate money toward the cost of our tickets, train rides, and other misc. travel cost.
· Come to India with us! It’s not too late.
· Oh yes, and there is more prayer!


I will be updating my blog regularly with updates on our JOURNEY preparations. If you are not already following it, please check it out. http://adayinthelifeoflor.blogspot.com/ . I am sure our access to internet will be limited once we get there but we will be sure to update it again when we get back.

If you do feel COMPELLED to give, (notice I did not say pressured), you may send your donations to the Tapestry Church and just put how you would like the money distributed in the memo line. Of course the Tapestry is a 501(c) 3 tax-exempt organization.

THANKS for reading this!
THANKS for praying for India!
THANKS for considering helping!



LORI Hedrick
lorihedrick@tapestrychurch.org


I cannot not GO.
I cannot not LOVE.
I cannot not GIVE.
I HAVE to go.

Father of the FATHERLESS and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
Psalm 68:5

Tapestry Church PO BOX 2394 Kensington, MD 20891

An invitation to Dinner

Dustin entered a contest with 95.1 SHINE FM. The name of the contest was "Love at first sight, second date night". He invited me to dinner and I got a call from Tracy from the morning show and she told me Dustin had entered this contest and invited me to dinner. She then read me his invitation and told me that we were having a Private Chef come out to our house and fix us a meal. I am so proud to be married to my wonderful husband!

Here is his letter to me....

Lor,

You really need to know something that I literally say every day right after we pray. I want to take a moment to be loud and proud of the fact that I LOVE YOU!!!!

I love you deeply with my whole life. When I said "I do," I meant it. Not only did I, but I still DO!

Nine years have made everything so much more exciting and such an amazing journey. I mean, it's not just one thing you have done, but every single small thing that you do. It's the way you remember the little things in life, the way you look at our baby, the way you leave the door cracked, the way you call just to see how I am, the way you love our baby church plant, the way you care for others, the way you serve, the way you live, the way you give to anyone, the way you want to love on orphans, the way you smile at me when we are across a room. You know, my heart still jumps. Funny huh?

It's every little thing you do that reminds me the love I have for you! I see Jesus' love in you. I cannot imagine what my life would have been like without you. Every breath, every step, every move, every motion, you make it all magic. You amaze me in so many ways.

Lor, I do. I do again and again and again. I still remember the way my heart lept as I saw your face, the very face that Poppa had placed in my dreams. I could not believe you said I do. And yet it all started with a "Hey, I'm Dustin..." And then the rest was history.

I was supposed to write this letter to simply ask you out on a date, but I could not pass up the chance to sing your praises for just a moment. I mean, you need to know that I am your biggest fan. So, with that said, I want to once more say, my love for you today is greater than when we first met, than when we first dated, than when I asked you to marry me and I would never trade any of those moments for the world. I would never want to go back for anything in the world, but I just wondered if you would like to have a "first date," "first moment," kind of night. I mean, I think these days are my favorite so far, but I think it would be fun to take a night and go on a special romantic date remembering how it was.

I would. I love you so much. It's is so amazing to get the chance to live my every day with my best friend, partner in ministry and most of all, my one true love. I am so VERY BLESSED! I love seeing you every night and every morning. And I want to celebrate you for a night.

So, whatta ya say? You wanna go out or something?