Kristin Laughlin Photography: Africa, Orphan Care, & Adoption http://www.kristinlaughlin.com Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:07:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Song of the Beautiful! http://www.kristinlaughlin.com/2012/01/the-song-of-the-beautiful/ http://www.kristinlaughlin.com/2012/01/the-song-of-the-beautiful/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:52:59 +0000 admin http://www.kristinlaughlin.com/?p=335 I have found there is nothing sweeter then watching a family adopt! I had the privilege of starting off 2012 welcoming home the newest Alexander family member….Gigi from Ethiopia! What a delight she is and it is evident that she was born to be part of this family!! Jesus Loves Us…the broken, lost, fatherless, poor….really all of us in our mess…for none of us is too far gone for Jesus not to love us! This is the message of Christy Nockels song, “The Song of the Beautiful.” I don’t think I could have picked a better song to go along with these pictures and this story!

Welcome Gelila “Gigi” Alexander!

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I photographed this picture of Katie in August 2009 . . .

What a blessing it was back in 2009 to visit this amazing young woman and photograph her and her children, along with her dad and brother who were visiting at the time. Katie is extraordinary, yet I learned when visiting her, that she really is an ordinary girl in many ways. The difference is she lives her life in such a way that she DAILY YIELDS everything she does and is to our EXTRAORDINARY GOD – therefore her life looks EXTRA-ordinary!

Little did I know when I was photographing back in 2009 that the images from that week would make their way onto the cover and inside of her new book. Funny how God works like that! It’s been a blessing to watch how Katie’s journey is now moving people across the country and world as they are reading of her YIELDED life! Pick up a copy today over at 147 million orphans where proceeds will go back to Katie’s non-profit Amazima!! It’s a great read! You won’t be able to put her story down!!

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This summer I photographed a domestic adoption for a family adopting through The Gladney Center for Adoption.

It was my first in the birthing room and was such a BEAUTIFUL picture of how God takes, hard, and shameful things and turns them into beauty.
When Gladney saw the piece I did for the adopting family, they asked if I could develop something for them from the birth mom’s perspective.

Here it is! Oh How He loves and takes our shame and brokenness and heals us and LOVES us and gives us NEWNESS of life!!

Katelyn, thank you for letting me tell your story! You are a beautiful, brave woman who has given the greatest gift anyone could ever give to the Martin’s!

Music used by permission for Gladney.

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One of the blessings in my life is photographing families that are Adopting!  I love watching and capturing the instant bond and love that immediately takes place.  It is almost as if there is a hidden heavenly chorus that bursts out in song (and probably does as we all know God loves the Orphan!)  I am in Rwanda with the Schulz family as they meet and bring home their son Drew.  Here is the slideshow from day one . . . Meet and fall in love!

]]> http://www.kristinlaughlin.com/2011/03/meeting-drew/feed/ 0 And if our God is for us….then what can stand against us? http://www.kristinlaughlin.com/2010/09/and-if-our-god-is-for-us-then-what-can-stand-against-us/ http://www.kristinlaughlin.com/2010/09/and-if-our-god-is-for-us-then-what-can-stand-against-us/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:25:54 +0000 admin http://www.kristinlaughlin.com/?p=259 What an amazing opportunity I had last week to “welcome home” and photograph a mom and her two adopted daughters arriving from Uganda. Kristi and Russ Ray journeyed to Uganda, in April, to bring home their two daughters. Little did they know when they departed from their two children here, that they would not be returning in two weeks, as was planned.

Some Ugandan laws changed while they were there and soon Russ had to come home thinking Kristi and the girls would follow shortly after. What ended up being 142 days or just over 20 weeks, they finally were able to get the girls Visa’s and return home to Austin. Watching their journey of faith over these months has been such an encouragement to the many of us who looked on. Truly, if God is for us, then what can stand against us!

Enjoy watching their family be united for the first time at the airport. You can tell by the crowd that came out, that they are DEARLY loved! Welcome home Patricia and Rose! We love you and are so thankful you are now home with your forever family!

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