Becky and Kyle

This Blog is intended for:
Bob Goff
Donald Miller
Ellen DeGeneres
Oprah Winfrey

My friend Becky moved to India in 2007 to work with orphans.  While in the Himalayas, she got a call that changed her life and the life of a tiny infant.  A nurse from a local hospital asked her to take a 3 ½ pound baby boy into her care.  Faced with choosing life or death for this child, she chose life.  With no plan on how to take care of him beyond immediate needs, she accepted the invitation to change his fate.  It was not a hard decision to make.  His frail body needed her strong arms and warm heart.  It took over 4 years to finalize his tricky adoption and bring him to the USA where he could meet the rest of his new family.  She had to change Indian laws to become Kyles legal guardian.  Although India recognized Becky as Kyles legal mother, America did not.  US Immigration would not give her son his official papers.  Another battle ensued.  After nearly five years of fighting, she made the adoption official in front of a judge in the United States via Skype.  Adoption in that manner had never been done before.  Standing before the Indian Supreme Court and battling with US Immigration to bring her son home was frustrating and costly but worth all the effort.  History was made as the doors were opened for more families to adopt in this manner.  Most importantly, her little boys life was saved.    

I don't know many people that set out to do what they love.  Most people have ideas, but they don't make them happen.   People have a heart for something, but they don't pursue it.  Becky isn't one of those people.  Single and under the age of 30, Becky sold all her belongings and moved to India to give a voice to the voiceless, love to the unloved and most importantly, life to a baby destined to be discarded on the side of the road.  

Becky is now home in the United States after not being allowed to leave India for almost five years.  She is dealing with tons of legal bills and a million questions about what to do next.  For so long her identity was wrapped up in bringing her son home.  Now, she struggles to figure out their new identity.  She would like to write a book to tell her story, but she isn't the best writer.  She'd like to do public speaking, but she doesn't know how to get started.  She wants to show her son our beautiful country but she doesn't have the money.  

Here's what I'm doing to help:

1) Her favorite band is Dispatch.  We got tickets to see them this October in Boston and I got in touch with Brad Corrigan to see if he'd have a pancake breakfast with us.  He isn't sure he has time to do that while on tour but I took a suggestion from Bob Goff and asked him to play "bigger/better."  My idea was breakfast....maybe he could come up with something better.

2) Ellen and Oprah are always giving away money, things and trips.  I'd LOVE for them to give his little boy the gift of seeing America's national parks.  I am going to work the the Twitter scene until I get their attention.  Maybe they'll play bigger/better with us.  

3) Becky came home from India completely spent and the only thing I could say to her was "read A Million Miles in a Thousand Years and Love Does."  She read them both and felt renewed.  

My request to Bob Goff and Donald Miller:

Becky needs counsel.   She needs to understand how publishing works, how to write a book, how to find a ghost writer if it turns out she's not very good at writing.  She needs to learn about how to go about becoming a public speaker and how she can support herself while doing these things.  I am contacting you Bob because when she finished Love Does and Million Miles  she said, "I have to meet them."  As her friend, I want to see to it that she meets the two authors that renewed her spirits after she came home from India exhausted and confused about her new identity.  She lives in PA and can easily get to New York, Philly or Boston.  She will be in Boston for ten days in October to see Dispatch and visit me :)   Big is asking you to email her but Better is asking you to meet with her.   


Bob Goff says that Love Does.... Becky Did and Does and I just want her to have a break and get her spirits renewed.  
 
I'm going to add a pretty please for good measure. 

Mary Kay