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Share Alana and her grandmother need a fresh start this holiday season…through Holt’s Gifts of Hope catalog, you can help! Six-year-old Alana should be well into her first year of school right now, but instead, she remains in a small, one-room house in a tiny village of southern Ethiopia. Having lost both of her parents to [...]  Share Genet was born on Christmas day. This Christmas, let’s make her birthday special. Let’s find her a family! Born in Africa, DOB: December 25th, 2007
by Ashli Keyser, managing editor From the moment our group enters the room full of children at the Durame intake center, *Genet has our attention. She has a delightful way about her, [...] Share Through the sharing of photos and memories, Randa Hazzard remembers the day she met her sister, Kait. The Hazzards began their own adoption journey to Ethiopia earlier this year…. by Randa Hazzard Randa at the Des Moines Airport, holding Kait for the first time. Today is an important day for my family. On this day, 23 years [...] Share In honor of National Adoption Month, parenting e-zine SixSeeds.tv is featuring several Holt adoptive families, including the Groces, the Johnsons, the Dalrymples, the Osburns and the Blumenthals. For every comment posted on their stories, SixSeeds will donate to one of many wonderful causes. Post about the Blumenthals’ story and SixSeeds will donate $2 to Holt! The Blumenthals [...] Share Watch the video below and find out what Holt sponsorship is all about…..and how you can change a child’s life…. Sponsor a child in Holt’s care today! Tweet Share Join the Holt Ambassadors Network National Adoption Awareness Month – a wonderful time to spread the word about children throughout the world who need loving families – is coming up in November. Many Holt adoptive families have found a great way to raise awareness about adoption and help more children find families through the Holt Ambassadors [...] Share The journey that changed my life by Alexa Dantzler Exactly one year ago, my parents told me news that forever changed my life. One evening, my parents gathered us in the living room. We called our oldest sister, Dana, at college. And then my dad said, with a grand smile on his face, “Girls, your mother and [...] Share Holt’s Family Preservation program in Ethiopia “The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.”–Matthew 7:25 By Ashli Keyser, managing editor In the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus uses a parable to speak [...] Share The following is a journal entry from Ashli’s trip to Ethiopia with one of Holt’s medical mission teams. By Ashli Keyser, Managing Editor Durame, Ethiopia—Our last day in Durame had come to an end…or so I had thought. As our group piled out of the cars we had been traveling in all day, I thought [...] Share Surgical center for children and their families by Ashli Keyser, managing editor The second Holt medical campaign in six months had come to an end. For a week, Holt Board Member Dr. Becca Brandt and her husband Dr. Kim Brandt volunteered their time and expertise at the Holt Shinshicho clinic. Arriving at the clinic in [...] |
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