OK - so here it is!!!

Please forgive me for not getting this done sooner. I sooooo wanted to begin taking orders for this on Friday with the advent of the Olympics...

Combining our passions for adoption (fundraising for ours and more to come), Chinese culture and the Gospel:

Righteousness.

This is the Chinese character for the word "righteousness". It is actually a combination of two separate characters. I looked online to see if some eloquent preacher had a great way of explaining this and I found it here Basically, this guy is re-telling the story that Don Richardson shared in his book "Eternity in their Hearts". Here's an excerpt from the blog:

He wrote about the difficulty missionaries had in communicating the good news of Jesus Christ to the Chinese people. But one day, there was a breakthrough. "He (the missionary) was studying a particular Chinese ideograph, the one which means "righteous." He noticed that it contained an upper and lower part. The upper part was simply the Chinese symbol for a Lamb. Directly under was simply a second symbol, the first person pronoun, I or me. "Suddenly, the missionary discerned an amazingly well-coded message hidden within the ideograph: "I under the lamb am righteous!"
"This startled the Chinese people. They never noticed it, but once the missionary pointed this out, they saw it clearly. They asked, "Which lamb must we be under to be righteous?"
[The missionary] replied with John 1:29, which is a description of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"" I under the Lamb of God am righteous. That is God’s solution to mankind’s sin problem.

Isn't that just amazing?

Our pastor shared this at the close of a message nearly a year ago and I knew then that this would be something very special to our family.

Chris and I commissioned a Chinese calligrapher to paint this symbol.

We have printed high-quality artist prints (8.5X11 in) and are offering them for sale to raise money for Abraham's adoption.

We are making these available for a $25 donation. Shipping is included.

If you would like one of these prints, please click on the "donate" button on the right side-bar of my blog. It will take you to PayPal. You can make the donation online and include your shipping address in the "notes" section of your donation. If you prefer to pay by check, please leave a comment in the "comments" section of this post. Please include your email address and I will contact you with payment information. Since I moderate comments, you can rest assured that your email address will NOT be published on this blog.

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