Needed 20 Million Parents - No experience necessary...

Our friend, David Webb, visited our church this week. David and his wife Caroline, and their "then" five kids, sold their suburban Northern Virginia home about 8 years ago and started an orphanage in Kenya. Caroline stayed home because someone need to take care of their 91 children.

David and Caroline Webb, Johannesburg, South Africa, with some of our church member missionaries and some of the orphans.

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After finding a house family to take over the management of the orphanage in Kenya about 4 years ago, the Webbs moved to Johannesburg, South Africa to begin a development program for starting and managing a number of orphanages in Africa, beginning in South Africa. The Webbs added to their family by adopting one of the orphans from their orphanage.

Now the Webbs are embarking on an even more challenging mission, to find adoptive families for African orphans. All are healthy, HIV-free children, who have been left orphans due to the devastating affect of HIV/AIDS in the African continent.

The Webbs remind me of the groundbreaking work of Harry and Bertha Holt, who, led by their strong Christian faith, spearheaded International adoptions in the 1950's by trying to find adoptive homes for Korean children of GI fathers during the Korean war. The Holt International adoption agency they started is the largest adoption agency in the United States, having found families for over 200,000 children.

Having personally adopted two children who used to orphans, and a third who will be joining our family this summer, I can tell you that our family would not be complete without each one of these special kids. They are truly a blessing from God.

Although we are happy to endorse World Vision and their efforts to help feed and clothe orphans in Africa, we're developing a program to get the word out to get families in our network of friends and families to adopt these children. David can be reached through His People Christian Church, in Johannesburg.