Lorentz Family Journey

 I forgot that I had this other blog.  I started writing this one in 2013 as I was starting to work through what it was we were meant to be doing with our lives and with some of the dreams in our hearts at the time.  This blog is really a simple account of our narrative as a family.  The picture below is where this process led us to. So much time and life has happened in the last 5 years and finding time to blog was not easy.  I am not a very good writer, but I love writing.  I really think I need to use this blog to share of the things I have learnt about family through our life choices. Holger and I have just celebrated our 27 year Anniversary and one thing that is clear about us two is, that we have never just made the simple choice.  We chose hard and we are more aware than ever of the impact of that on our children.   I am going to spend more time here.  I think it is time to put pen to some of the stories of the things that have sh...

I have not blogged in a while.   It has been a crazy year that was filled with curve balls thrown at me and I was not always ready to bat.   However, I am still in the game! We are working with an organisation called Kin Culture and recently in collaboration with other foster/adoption organisations they launched the first ever WORLD FOSTER DAY.   The effort and the work done to promote it was amazing and I was blown away after years of working on Child Protection Week and other children’s campaign initiatives, how far this small little team were able to come and what they achieved. However, for me this day, this launch and this story was very difficult for me.   I was not sure at first what was going on in me.   I realised however at some point that I was in trouble, when by the famous May 31, 2018 in the early hours of the morning I found myself in a ball of tears at my dining room table after watching a clip that had been aired on National television a...

 On the 31st of March 2018 Holger and I will have been foster parents for a year officially with the paper work behind us.  The shock of the tale is we really thought we would be able to give all of these children a forever home.  We intended to adopt, we were told that it was a possibility... Our hearts have had to shift and we have decided to embrace these children as if they are adopted and love them with our whole hearts even if they will not live with us forever.  They each have a home and we teach them about belonging to two families. Each one of these little lives have impacted our family and we will never be the same.  We have learnt so much about overcoming, hope, joy and resilience. These little lives are priceless and we want the best for each of them.  Please continue to keep us all in your prayers.   Especially keep our marriage in prayer that we would display the heart of GOD!

Who knew that we would take family planning to a whole new level.  We decided about three years ago that we were more serious about adopting and were going to open our home.  We checked in with our children and they were all in support of the idea. This year in January we started fostering 4 little children and we really hope we can give them a forever home. There are more details about this on my personal blog... Kay's Blog We are a family of 9 now, yes Holger and I have 7 children.  The challenges and the beauty of this is something we are working with every single day. We are not that young anymore...

It has been two years almost since I started this blog.  I started out stating that it was part of us trying to find out what crossroads we stood at.  It is interesting now to look back on what developed since then.  We did not move anywhere or change anything majorly... We simply dug our heels in deeper.  We decided with the encouragement of a very good friend to take the projects we had been running in and from our local church into non-profit organisations.  This has been a challenging journey, but in the last few weeks have again been able to see that this is part of a much bigger picture... although it is not clear yet. You can check out the work on  www.mercyaids.org  and the resilient kids website is currently under reconstruction.  Both organisations are also on facebook. Holger and I joined a new missions organisation last year.  We got to spend a glorious month in Germany while our kids stayed home safely in the care of our de...

2013 started with the publishing of the MercyAids website.  We had big dreams and  we felt clear of what it was we were called to.   Resilient Kid s goes on and this year we have seen a stirring of movement of renewed life... even after it looked like we had had to lay it down a year ago. At the same time I had taken on a role with the Connec t Network to help them expand their network goal of  safer communities for children in the Western Cape.   I felt this role was/is an important stepping stone to the unfolding of dream to see communities supported to effectively care for the OVC.  I had things in my hands I could bring to this dream... like two fish and five loaves. However, although clearer in our heads of what it is we have in our hands and what it is we are meant to be doing... the challenges and difficulties to keep doing it like we have been doing it has become extremely confusing in the last few months. I guess that greatest challenge has ...

In 2012 we started the year in a surrendered place.  We were already starting to battling with a place of difficulty of how things were turning out.  We had inside of us an understanding of what it was we were called to and we could see that over the years that we had come along side struggling organisations and individuals with a heart for orphans and vulnerable children.  We could see that we had influenced and supported... Doors opened up for me to go to different countries to give away what we had learnt over the years.  This trip took me on two life changing journeys.  My visit to Uganda and Liberia expanded my heart and my vision. Seeing a greater need of OVC beyond our borders, beyond Fisantekraal... A desire for neworks of support was born. With our new found clarity of who we are and what we are called to we started putting MercyAIDS in a clearer form...