Introducing – The Josiah Fund!

// October 9th, 2009 // Loux Family News

Renee’ and I were married in 1992.  Renee’ grew up on the mission field in the South Pacific Islands and I grew up in a traveling ministry with my family.  In 1994 our first child, “Josiah” was born with severe Spina Bifida.  Living only 2 and 1/2 years, Josiah died in June of 1996.  He was a priceless gift to us!  The Lord used him in so many ways to open our eyes to His love.  Through Josiah’s life and death, our love for special needs children and the orphan was birthed.  We are very excited to present to you our vision, named after our son Josiah, whose life and death impacted us and caused our eyes to be opened to the reality of the plight of over two hundred million orphans around the world who have no one to call their own.

Our Vision is to rescue, adopt and restore 30 needy and neglected children, inspiring thousands of couples throughout the body of Christ to adopt and take care of the orphan. Many of the children we will adopt will have special needs and we have a vision to restore them through equestrian, horticultural, and traditional therapeutic programs. We want to see them healed in the atmosphere of continuous worship and prayer at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City.

Land
There is a 45 acre piece of land near the House of Prayer we want to purchase and use to accomplish our vision. The acreage is wooded and ideal for establishing equestrian therapy and horticultural therapy services. We estimate that it will cost $272,000 to purchase and prepare this land for construction.

A Home
In order to house 30 children and five to ten adults, we need to build a 15,000 – 20,000 square ft home. We are boldly stepping out to raise $2.5 million to accomplish this.

The Apostle Paul tells us that when we make melody in our hearts to the Lord, singing songs of worship to Him, we get filled with the Holy Spirit (Eph 5:18-20). In Romans 8 we read that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Adoption who tells us that we belong to God. When the orphan begins to sing scripture to the Lord, making melodies in his heart to God, that orphan’s spirit begins to be filled with the Spirit of Adoption and they begin to know that they belong. The spirit of rejection is replaced with the spirit of acceptance and belonging and the spirit of fear is replaced with the Spirit of love, power, and a sound mind. We’ve seen this happen in the lives of our adopted children and our goal is simple … we simply want to do it over and over again.

Will you partner with us to make that happen?

Please visit our website at  http://www.josiahfund.org to get involved!