About Kalkidan

I'VE SPONSORED A CHILD!!!!

Yes. Me. Sponsoring a child. Me!!

Okay... so here's the whole story.Yesterday, there's this Dare Women Conference that is held in church. Initially, I wasn't planning on going. I just wanted to stay at home and watch Better Homes and Gardens and any other Friday night movie. Plus, it was cold, quite unusual during end of November. Also, I never spent Friday night at home; it’s always and always is at OCF every Friday. So, for this once, I decided to stay home.

BUT! Then, mum asked me to go with her. So, without thinking, okay... I went to church. Dare Conference was quite good actually. The message was awesome. The theme was centered on "Christmas". So, we were given tips about how to better ur Christmas celebration and there was this talk about Christmas traditions. And then Nicole came to talk about the true meaning of Christmas.

Then, we got ginger bread cookies and COFFEE for refreshments. And then there was this after party for under 30s which mum (obviously) couldn't go (sadly...), so I went alone. Met Amanda (my ex LG leader.. sounds quite horrible but anywho) and the rest. Had slushies, FONDUE, marshmellows, fruits, but no coffee (young people need to be taught to drink coffee, instead of beer). LOL.

Then, it was time to go. And then so happens that this lady behind the compassion booths was a friend of mum's. So while mum was chatting off, I was browsing through the different sponsorship kids on the desk or should I say I had the CHANCE to browse through the things. U know how sometimes ur too shy to go up to have a look, and browse through the things in case they ask u to do something and u have to reject them?? But this time, I was comfortably looking at all the things, the kid's profile. And then mum suggested, why not sponsor one??

I think I ignored mum at first but then, hey! Great idea. Instead of tithing 50 dollars per fortnight, I could give 44 dollars per month!! yes, and then give another 6 dollars to OCF and 10 dollars for tithing. So, yeap, that's the story of how I got hook into sponsoring a child. I was thinking about it briefly before church but wasn't really very enthusiastic about it. LOL.

It feels so good now. I'm sponsoring a girl. I've always wanted a baby sister, so now, I have a daughter. LOL. Her name’s Kalkidan, pretty name right??

Meet Kalkidan. (I should probly take a better one)

At first, I didn’t care about the name; I didn’t even know this girl’s name. She’s 5 this yr, 6 next yr. I used to envy friends who have baby brothers or sisters, esp. baby sisters. And now I have a baby daughter. Should be interesting.

Thinking about it, God does work in miraculous ways. I really thank God for keeping me financially safe, given such huge turmoil in the economic arena. And also, wow! Right? So very unexpected!! God, sometimes U do surprise me.

Feels real good to make a difference. Speaking of difference, I feel very at awe (in a bad way) of how the US govt’ would spend billions and billions of dollars (apparently 3 billion) to save financial institutions from hitting bankruptcy than solving world poverty. WTH... doesn’t make sense. 3 billion just to save banks that maybe didn’t even deserve the 3 billion.

But, politicians will be politicians. Anyway, Kalkidan, I LOVE UR NAME!!! It’s so funky, trusts me, and definitely beats Beyonce or Gwyneth or Rhianna. Hopefully one day we’ll meet on FB or Myspace or FS or some new social sites in ur generation to come.

I’m SOOOOOOOOOO excited!! Oh me gosh... guess when her b'day is??? It's a special date. No... not 22 March, not THAT coincidence. It's 28 Febuary!!!! I'm shocked as much as u guys are. But I'm sure its going to be a very special date for a very special girl. :)

God, u never seem to amazed me more. It was a random pick, yet so many surprises. And! I have another item on my prayer list!! Wuhoo!!