Levi Benkert's Blog, page 7

How to make time stand still

As any parent would tell you, time is one of those things you just can’t seem to grasp in your hands, it seems that every moment when you look up and survey all that is around you everything has changed from what you remember it to be. Kids who once needed you for their every … Read More

Pray, Give and Share

I would like to take a minute and say hello and let you know why I am here. My name is Luther Ramsey and I am the new Donor Relations Manager for Bring Love In. Like many of you, my wife and I have been donors for several years. I had the privilege of visiting … Read More

Meet Luther

Hey there,  (I almost said “ya’ll” Clearly Texas is getting to us..) It wasn’t that long ago that we posted on here about the need we have for a new donor relations manager for Bring Love In.   We realized that the one thing that we are not very good at on this end over in … Read More

Know someone good?

One of the things that we have known for a long time, and struggled to do anything about is the fact that we simply must hire a US based employee who will be our donor relations manager if we are going to be sustainable with the funding that is coming in to keep things going.   … Read More

Summer plans!

Hey there friends, We hope you are well and that you are as happy as we are that summer is here.   It seems the madness of this year that has gone by so quickly will finally have a chance to slow down and breathe.  That always feels nice. For our families in Ethiopia summer … Read More

Why chip cards are bad for Orphans

It took me months to figure out what was going on.  At first I thought that maybe people were changing and now they just didn’t care as much about orphans any more, or perhaps it was our fault, maybe we just aren’t good at telling the story of why it matters that we take care of these … Read More

Some great news for our family

Well we made it, me and our youngest two daughters landed in Ethiopia and are starting our three week journey to the place that we used to call home for so many years.   And my goodness is it weird to be back this time.   First though let me tell you why our family is having … Read More

Hope in every future

I am going to admit something that I don’t think I have ever said to anybody.  And I don’t mean that in the ‘come read my fantastic blog about my secrets which are really just enticing things to get more eyeballs’ sort of way, I meant that in the ‘I have been scared to admit … Read More

Shoes!

In a little less than two weeks me and our two youngest girls are heading back to Ethiopia to spend some time catching up with all that we have going on over there.   4 AM phone calls will only get you so far, sometimes you just need to sit down with everyone and look into … Read More

Ripping my heart apart

Wow, it has been too long here.   With our family getting moved into our new (and still un-finished remodeled) house this month, I have not found much time to sit down here and write.  I promise, more to come in the way of updates.    I will sum it all up with this for now; … Read More