Please share, and please pray

There is a boy who is finally getting some attention about his adoption availability--now, when it is almost too late!  "Sebastian" is a boy who turns 16 in 10 days, so he has that long to find a family.  If no one claims him as their son, on his 16th birthday, he will be escorted out of the orphanage doors, with maybe a few dollars and the clothes on his back.  He will not have a place to live.  He will not have a job.  He will not have any more schooling.  He will be ostracized by his culture for his orphan = outsider status.  He will be on his own, expected to fend for himself, with no resources available to help him get on his feet in the world.  All at the age of 16. 

Some of the kids learn pretty good self-protective instincts in the orphanage, and they can adjust somewhat better to the hard-scrabble life awaiting them outside.  But even for these kids, the lack of options lead to extremely high rates in crime involvement, prostitution, and suicide. : ( 

Some kids just seem like they are on the brink--that they would still, at 15, be excellent additions to a family. That they would thrive and learn and end up doing well in life.  Maybe even growing up to be people who are actively striving to make the world a better place, in God's name.  But if they don't end up in a family, they will be those kids who flail, who fall, who crumble, who give in to the sad and harsh parts of life. 

I don't think I'm over-romanticizing the matter.

"Jonathan"--now Andrew--is an excellent example of the latter child.  Please visit his mother's post today to hear her perspective on the older boy adoption.

And then please go read about Sebastian, and hear why he sounds like such an excellent child to adopt, here.  I know most of you reading are not in the position to miraculously swoop down and give him a home--but maybe you could share his face and info around your own social networks so maybe he will be found by the people who are his parents?   (Just please copy one of these above links, and not post my blog link. Unless you are absolutely sure we are not in the same facebook circles. ; )

And most of all, would you all please pray?  It worked for Andrew.  We asked God (a lot of us pleaded!) and He granted our desires for Andrew.  Would you please pray that He would do the same for Sebastian?

I thank you from the bottom of my heart.