Rhonda Davis

	We all have special gifts or blessings, but some people seem to stand out from amongst the rest because they don't realize just how special their blessing are to those around them. They think they are just ordinary people. This is the story of one very special lady. She is the wife of our pastor. Meet Rhonda Davis and her special gift and blessing to others. We at Wekiwa Springs Baptist Church believe she is extremely special and we all love her very much

God has blessed our family with seven wonderful children, the last four being adopted. After we had adopted our first baby (number four overall), I felt a desire and a burden to become a foster parent at some point in the future. At the time, I was working full time outside the home, and there did not seem any way, given the financial demands of a large family, that I would ever be able to stay home and fulfill this dream. But God is faithful to the burdens he lays upon our hearts, and at just the right time he opened the door for me to indeed be able to stay at home. My hopes to become a foster mom were given new life.
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n December of 2006, my husband Mike and I were licensed as foster parents in the state of Florida. We were licensed to work with an adoption agency named A Chosen Child, and more specifically, to work with a ministry within that agency called Jeremiah’s Child.

What a joy and a blessing this ministry has been for me. I have always had a deep love for little ones; when I was a teenager, all of my friends knew me as the girl who said she wanted 100-kids. As of now, the Lord has blessed me with three biological children, four adopted children, and, as of last count, seventeen foster children. So, given enough time, I might make it to 100-kids after all.

I love each and every one of them with a love that only God can provide. There have been periods during the last three years when there were no foster babies in the house; and if I had not had my little darling 2-year old Elijah to love on I would have been lost. God gives both my husband and I a special grace of love for each one of these children, even as if they were one of our own, permanently welded to our family. But even with that, God has given us a burden to diligently share with each of them the love of Christ before they move on (ever so quickly) to their next stage in life, be it with an adoptive family, or to be reunited with their birth parent(s).

When we first became foster parents, we joined ourselves to the ministry Jeremiah’s Child. Jeremiah’s Child’s charter is to reach out to women who are unable to care for their children for the short to medium time frame because they are either incarcerated, or suffering from a debilitating medical condition. This is such a unique ministry, and it encountered equally unique obstacles and challenges in getting it running and accepted. While we were waiting, we took in babies that needed cradle care while the formalities that go along with most adoptions were hurdled. But finally, in September of 2008, the first baby that will be served by Jeremiah’s Child was born and placed in our home. It is the culmination of years of faithful praying and diligent working by many, and now we can not only reach out with the love of God to the little children, but to the Mother’s and the families of the little children as well.

God’s timing is perfect and God’s grace is abundant.

When our Lord brings this ministry to your mind, please pray for these children – that God will create a Christian home for them to grow up in; please pray for their mothers – that God will give them free access to his grace and his forgiveness; and please pray for us – that God will continue to give us strength and joy in serving him, and in serving these “little ones’ that he places in our arms.

God Bless You,
Rhonda Davis