Please Help!

Your help is urgently needed! After three years of frustrating delays, the Ingrams are agonizingly close to completing the adoption of Florah, a beautiful 14-year-old AIDS orphan. But they do not have the $4,000 needed to complete the task. Over the last three years they have emptied their savings account, paying for attorney fees, court fees, filing fees, inspections costs, medical exams, and other expenses. During this time they have cared for Florah as one of their own children, providing her food, shelter, clothing, education and the thing she needs most, LOVE! Read more of Florahs story and learn how to give below.

Rescued From a Life of Poverty and Despair

In 2003, while working with another pastor, the Ingrams were asked to assist with a 10-year-old child whose mother had just passed away from AIDS. The child was a cousin of the pastor. The family was passing her from home to home and her schooling was sporadic, at best. In November of 2004, a year after hearing about Florah, Todd went on a trip out to the bush with the pastor. Todd was introduced to the family and saw Florah for the first time. She was caring for the livestock and doing chores around the huts. She was not enrolled in school at the time. Todd and Michele agreed to take Florah into their home. Florah’s family sent her to the Ingrams on Christmas Eve 2004. What a special Christmas present! When Florah came she was eleven years old. She had not completed the second grade. She could not read and wrote very little. She spoke no English. Five months later, the Ingrams met with her family and asked to adopt Florah. Her grandmother and aunts granted permission at that time. Michele says, "Florah has become part of us. You would never know she was the same little girl that came to our home in 2004. She has caught her schoolwork up to the sixth grade and speaks wonderful English." Praise God! The adoption laws in Kenya have changed three times in the three years the Ingrams have been trying to complete the adoption. Because of the changes both in Kenya and the U.S., the Ingrams are racing to complete this process by June.

Give Now

If you have a credit card and/or a PayPal account, please give now by logging on to PayPal at www.paypal.com

In the "Send Money" portion use the email address
ingramsfamily@sbcglobal.net
to access their account to deposit funds.

Or you may send a check (see below)

All donations are tax deductible.

Your financial gift to the Florah Adoption Fund will do more than just provide a loving Christian home for a beautiful Kenyan girl orphaned by AIDS. Through your gift, you can change the world for eternity!

Have questions about Florah or the Ingram's ministry? Write to Todd at
toddingram2003@yahoo.com
or Michele at
ingram_michele@yahoo.com

Florah Eternity Story

Imagine Florah's destiny if she had not been taken in by the Ingrams. She would be poorly educated, sexually abused, hired out as a prostitute with little or no chance of ever escaping the grinding weight of poverty. If she were to marry, she would be sold by her relatives to the highest bidder. Most Kenyan husbands treat their wives like property. In all likelihood, neither she nor any of her children would ever know the love and warmth of a Christian home. Her story would be repeated in her children and grandchildren and great grandchildren.
But God has graced Todd and Michele Ingram with hearts that ache to change the destiny of the children of Kenya. Imagine Florah's future as a daughter of the Ingrams. She will be educated, She will be loved. She will be protected. She will not be sold into prostitution or marriage. She will be treated as a child of God. She will pass on the love of Christ to her children and her great grandchildren and all the future generations. Amen!
Your gift today will matter for eternity because it will change Florah's life and the lives of her heirs forever!
Florah stands at the crossroads and is in danger of being taken from the Ingram home. Pending changes in Kenya adoption laws may cause Florah to be returned to her relatives. The Ingrams may be forced to again go back to the starting point.
Please pray for Florah. Please consider giving to the Florah Adoption Fund. Please share Florah's story with your friends.