4 months of updates....

Well, it's been a while so here's what has been going on.

The Orphan Love Mud Run was a HUGE success and in the end we raised over $17,000 total and 7 families were blessed with money to help bring their children home. 

Our next event has been planned out and we are SO very excited about it.  His Little Feet will be returning to Ada, OK and this time with children from India, Ethiopia and Haiti.  We will be having the performances at H2O Church on March 3rd and more information regarding the specifics of that will be announced soon.

We are also planning the next Orphan Love Mud Run for 2013, YES we are!  The date has not been set in stone yet but will likely be at the end of Septemeber like last year (of course scheduling around other mud runs and OU games...you know the important stuff).  Since we planned the last one in 2 months and it was great we figure we can plan this next one way in advance and it will be AMAZING, we have some exciting things to add to it this year so stay tuned...
 

We would love to get more people to "like" our facebook pages so they can too stay updated so if you can help us with that, go "like" our pages (listed below) and tell everyone you know!

 

It's A Child's Life Facebook Page

Orphan Love Mud Run Facebook Page

 

The Mud Run Countdown...

We have 8 more days of Early Bird Registration to sign up for the mud run and get a FREE

t-shirt. 

Remember there is a kids fun run as well as the adult 5K mud run with lots of fun and muddy obstacles to make your way through.

AND... 27 days left until the BIG day!!!  If you want to know all about it, check ouot our website www.itsachildslife.org and make sure you click on the tab that says "Adopting Families" and see who we are running for.  

Below are a few pictures from the location of the course. We are so excited about it as there is a lot of dirt to turn into mud and a lot of fun hills to get in shape with.

 

www.itsachildslife.org

Orphan Love Mud Run 2012

coming soon...

The Orphan Love Mud Run is a 5K obstacle course, wth mud!

All Proceeds go to help adopting families with their expenses to bring their children home!

When: September 29th, 2012

Where: Ada,OK. (exact location TBA soon)

Description: Families who are in the process of adopting and have a completed a home study will qualify to be raise money through Orphan Love Mud Run. 

More information on this will be posted soon but you may contact us through leaving a comment here or on our Facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/OrphanLoveMudRun

His Little Feet Rocked Ada

We were so blessed to have His Little Feet come to Ada and so many hearts were touched and changed yesterday.  I encourage you to read more about who they are on their website www.hislittlefeet.org 

We are planning on bringing them back every year so if you missed it yesterday, then keep checking back and find out when they will be here again.  They tour all over the US too so if you will be going out of town look on their website where they will be, maybe it will be where you are going.

 

They Will Be HERE Soon!

T-Shirts For Sale

We have t-shirts in and are selling them to raise money for an amazing orphan ministry called His Little Feet that will be coming to Ada in just a couple weeks!  They are bringing orphaned children from Ethiopia and Honduras and will be spending the weekend in Ada and performing in a FREE concert on Sunday, Feb 19th at Dorothy Summers Theater at ECU.  This is something that is going to make a BIG impact on Ada and we are all so excited for this day to come. 

T-shirts come in short and long sleeve and are charcoal gray with light blue and white writing.  You can see the front in the picture to the left and the back has our official website www.itsachildslife.org that will be up and running very soon (hoping by this weekend).   

Short sleeve shirts are $15 and Long sleeve shirts are $20.  We have sizes Small, Med, Large, XL, and XXL.  They are standard t-shirts and they fit true to size whether you are male or female. 

We also have dri-fit type running t-shirts in mens and womens sizes, they look the same but are in black, we only have a few sizes left so if you want one place your order soon!

***If you would like a shirt or would like to make a donation to helping bring His Little Feet to Ada, click on the "donations" or "buy now" button in the left hand corner.  If you are buying a shirt, please type in the instructions box what size you would like.  If you need your shirt shipped, please add $3.00 to help cover shipping costs.***

Thank you and we hope to see you at 6pm on Sun, Feb 19th at Dorothy Summers Theater at ECU

IACL Update

If you are stopping by our site for the first time, WELCOME and thank you for taking a minute to do so!  If you have been here before, thanks for checking back and I apologize there hasn't been an update since March!  We have been working on getting our official website up and running and are almost complete with it as well as with our new logo that we will be using on t-shirts, new brochures, had outs business cards, and the list goes on so check back and soon we will have a lot more to offer and are very excited about it.

Since the last post we have been doing a lot of brainstorming within ourselves and with others on how we can best serve the children and how we can get the word out about the options that exist to help children locally and globally.  I would like to share with you one idea of how YOU can get involved and make a difference in a child's life TODAY.

Be a DHS volunteer and take a child out of the shelter for a few hours, the day, and/or night.  I have done this and can't speak enough about about it!  I filled out the 3 page volunteer application and 1 page background check, submitted it to our local DHS and 2 days later got a phone call that I was approved!  This cost $0 to do, and when I had a day off for my birthday leave at work I took a little 11 year old girl with me to get our hair and nails done, go shopping, out to eat and get snow cones.  I think I was more excited than she was but when she was getting her nails done and looked at me and said "I'm so glad you came and got me today, I've never had my nails done professionally before and have never done so much in one day." I then realized this one day of doing things that many people do often for themselves or their kids was not something usual for this little girl, this was really special to her (and me).  Personally I work full time and don't often get a lot of free time to do things like we did that day but it doesn't have to be that extravagant either.  This past weekend I picked her up, got something to eat and a snow cone (of course) and brought her back to my house to play in the baby pool and slip n slide with our 2 1/2 year old and they both had a blast!  With all that said, if this is something you would like to do too, let us know and you can directly contact me HERE.

Please share this information with your friends and family and as always please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have, that is what we are here for!