Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Too Cute...Tuesday!


Miss Stella!

Stella was one of our Give a Blessing recipients. I wanted to share a bit of the email that we received from her Mom concerning the donations all of you provided for this sweet little girl.


"Thank you also for the generous donation. We are getting ready to buy Stella a headfloat device so she can"swim" and you just helped cover that cost!!! Stella may not be able to move much out of water but she's The Little Mermaid while in water!!!"


Praise God for His providing our every need! Please keep Miss Stella in your prayers and follow her updates through her Caringbridge page. www.caringbridge.org/visit/stellaturnbullturnbull


What a sweet precious girl!!
We LOVE you Stella!!

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Too Cute...Tuesday!



~ I'm in LOVE! ~
Aren't these girls just the cutest ever?!
GREAT photo's Mom!
*If you are interested in being featured on Too Cute...Tuesday,
email your photos to babybeblessed@gmail.com


Monday, May 11, 2009

Marvelous Monday!


Good Morning everyone!

Just a quick post this morning to let you all know the winner of Yay...Free Friday!


Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:20
Timestamp: 2009-05-11 11:39:43 UTC


CONGRATULATIONS.......JULIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Julia said...
I'd never seen your dolls before today. They are beautiful. One of my favorite verses is Luke 2:19 because that's how I feel about mothering my children. I can't even imagine how she must have felt mothering the Son of God!


"But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart." Luke 2:19


How fitting for Mother's day!
Thanks for entering everyone! Don't forget about our Custom Doll Raffle this month. For every dollar donated to Blessings of Hope you will be entered for a chance to design your very own BbB doll.
Have a wonderful week!
Tina

Friday, May 8, 2009

Yay...FINALLY... Another FREE FRIDAY!!





"For I know the plans that I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope." Jer.29:11

You know, we have used this verse on our dolls from the beginning but when I read it this morning...my heart has been stretched to receive it totally different than how I have before.

Today's giveaway in is honor of our fifth child...our Sponsor Child, Miss Dhanpriyaben Chimanbhai from India. (Can anyone tell me how to actually pronounce that?) We call her Dhani for short. I can't wait to share a picture with all of you. She is so beautiful and is the same age of my Natalie, 8 yrs old. What drew me to her, other than reminding me of Natalie, was that she was one of six children. That pulled on my heart because I felt that helping one child out of the family was helping them all in a way. We are looking forward to including letters and goodies to not only Dhani but all her brothers and sisters! Please pray about sponsoring a child.

So when I read that Jer. 29:11 and ponder on it...it has such a deeper meaning to me. We are so spoiled here in the United States. I am spoiled. I'm not saying everything is perfect, it's not. But we take for granted the blessings we have been given and live with daily!

Our Giveaway doll is 16" tall, made from dark brown muslin and black minky smooth hair with black yarn braids. She has safety eyes and handstitched mouth/lashes with a touch of blush on her cheeks! The dress is a light blue with hot pink polka dots and bloomers a hot pink/pink cotton stripe print. The torso or belly is a pink cotton print with the scripture,

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 15:13

TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE GIVEAWAY YOU MUST:
1. Leave your comment including your contact information under this post Friday-Sunday.
2. Share one (or more) of your favorite scriptures.

~Only one entry per household.
~Winner will be chosen and announced on Monday

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Thankful Thursday!

"Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises." James 5:13

"After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you. 1 Peter 5:10

"Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; Praise Him in the heights! Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all stars of light! Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens! Let them praise the name of the Lord, For He commanded and they were created." Psalm 148:1-5

"Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before Him with joyful singing. Know that the Lord Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name. For the Lord is good; His loving-kindness is everlasting And His faithfulness to all generations." Psalm 100:1-5

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I am full of joyful praise this morning! In my heart of hearts I know, and more importantly God's word tells us

"that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28

Everything works out to His glory! This tough season we just went through here at Baby be Blessed is all according to His will, His purpose and His glory! Thank you Lord! That out of every situation we can see your good. Maybe not right away...but the further we stand back from it the clearer you will show us Your hand in every situation. And notice how the Word says ALL THINGS...not just some things!

I'm humbled and blessed to tell you all that we are finally through the bulk of our custom orders! We still have a small handful that we are finishing up but praise God for where we are at...I am so very thankful! If you have a loose end that needs finished up or a question that maybe I didn't get answered please contact me once again, so I can get everything taken care of. We desire to make sure nothing was forgotten or unfinished. I once again praise God for all the encouragement He has given through all of you even when we (or should I say...I) was at my weakest.

Many are still asking when we will be taking custom orders again? Once again, I can only say that I don't know. What I do know is that the Lord allowed us to grow and learn through the past six months and we are to move forward from these growing pains and not continue in the same path. Now that we are this far in completing our custom dolls we can focus on finished items and just allow the Lord to lead the rest. May His will be done!

Thank you Lord for guiding us through the storm!

~Tina


{Oh, and just a little nibble...make sure to check back again tomorrow for a BbB blog favorite!}

Friday, May 1, 2009

Blessings of Hope

Blessings of Hope is an extension of Baby be Blessed as a non profit doll outreach ministry to children in orphanages and other countries around the world. It is simply showing the love and hope we have in Jesus Christ through a simple handmade doll.

Blessings of Hope has been on our heart since the end of last year. We have so much and yet there are so many who have nothing. We are just giving back what He has given to us. We will proclaim His truth, show His hope and love through a doll or lamb to as many children as the Lord allows.

Girls will recieve dolls and boys will recieve lambs. Each doll or lamb with have "Jesus loves you" in the childs native language. They will measure around 10" tall.

Help us share the love of Christ! A friend said that her donation seemed like such a small drop in the bucket. But together all our small drops can turn into something huge! A rushing stream of water running right into the hearts of children in need! As freely as we have we recieved we need to give.

Please pray for the children who will be receiving these dolls! It might be the first time they ever hear the message of Jesus Christ. Imagine how they will feel God's mighty love!


Current Blessings~

We are currently working on sending dolls to India through Compassion. Please sponser a child today!

Sponsor a child online through Compassion's Christian child sponsorship ministry. Search for a child by age, gender, country, birthday, special needs and more.


We also will be working on a special project of making dolls and lambs for Maria's Big House of Hope in China! Click on the link to see how you can Show Hope to an orphan today!



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We are going to support our Blessings of Hope this month through our Give a Blessing and Custom Doll raffle. Please visit our website and enter our raffle to support this cause and win a free custom Baby be Blessed doll!

The April Raffle Winner....


What a blessing and an answer to prayer that all of you helped us pull together to help our sweet Seth! We had 243 entries!!! Thank you all so much!

So for the winning number........

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers: 231
Timestamp: 2009-05-01 00:10:51 UTC

It is number 231...Mrs. Jenni Egbert from not only my hometown, but my neighbor!

I will be posting a little later today about Blessings of Hope and the custom doll raffle for May!