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Wwcd

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Thu Jun 21, 2018, 08:56 PM Jun 2018

Devos' Adoption Mill: Bethany Christian Services, Grand Rapids, MI, has taken in 81 immigrant childr [View all]




From the Link:



Documents (2013) for the Richard & Helen DeVos Foundation show that they contributed $250,000 to Bethany Christian Services. The Dick & Betsy DeVos Foundation provided $25,000 to Bethany in 2013.

Betsy DeVos Wants to Use America’s Schools to Build “God’s Kingdom”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/betsy-devos-christian-schools-vouchers-charter-education-secretary/

Bethany works to find families for children living in orphanages in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Since 1944 Bethany has placed over 50,000 children in Christian homes."

Interested in "adoption"? [click here]

https://www.mnnonline.org/mission_groups/bethany-christian-services/



Here's the way Bethany Skirts the Laws

In six months they'll file abandonment petitions on John Doe and Jane Doe.

That's the plan. They have no intention of trying to find, much less uniting parents with their children. It's a radical Christian adoption trafficking mill.

It is reported that Bethany charges $50,000 pr child


MSM needs to get on the DeVos Bethany Christian Services migrant story ASAP before the required wait to label them "abandoned" expires.


https://www.bethany.org/other-services/refugee-and-immigrant-services


Devos' adoption mill: Bethany Christian Services, Grand Rapids, MI, has taken in 81 immigrant children snatched from their parents under the new Trump kidnapping plan. Ask them if they have names & addresses of the parents. I bet they don't. They don't want the names & addresses.


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And This: Wwcd Jun 2018 #1
My heart broke when I heard this. Bethany Christian Services is the worst of the worst StevieM Jun 2018 #2
I hope we already have 100 Avennatis heading squarely Wwcd Jun 2018 #3
Free Maid Service For Life Me. Jun 2018 #4
I figured her brother Erik Prince to have some hand$ in this horror show . Should have lunasun Jun 2018 #5
This is jaw dropping. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #6
Anyone whose work has ever involved processing Hortensis Jun 2018 #7
K&R. Really needs more eyeballs. nt eppur_se_muova Jul 2018 #8
Last night NPR reported a mother's claim that she was Hortensis Jul 2018 #9
Western Michigan, eh ? Did you see this ? eppur_se_muova Jul 2018 #10
:) DeVos involvement hit the news almost immediately. Hortensis Jul 2018 #11
Time for Congress to look into how all those contracts were awarded. eppur_se_muova Jul 2018 #12
Please give this a read, understand the truth! michigan10 Jul 2018 #13
Sorry, if DeVos is associated with Bethany, your credibility is crap. lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #17
This is an adoption mill...and sorry those kids should not be there. They will be adopted and lost Demsrule86 Jul 2018 #18
I believe that you may be sincere in your desire to help children FakeNoose Jul 2018 #19
Agree with you but understand... michigan10 Jul 2018 #21
I wasn't aware of this, thanks for correcting me FakeNoose Jul 2018 #24
tell Devos heaven05 Jul 2018 #20
What Snopes says about Bethany Christian Services and DeVos PufPuf23 Jul 2018 #14
Yup. They avoided the questions, & gave the cultish sanitized answer. Wwcd Jul 2018 #15
Couple of things... michigan10 Jul 2018 #22
Choo-choo! Here comes the Excuse Train! FSogol Jul 2018 #23
I would argue that they did give answers to these... michigan10 Jul 2018 #25
So Trump is selling his kidnapping victims to his Secretary of Ignorance lagomorph777 Jul 2018 #16
Did this child separation policy start after the second season of HANDMAID'S TALE dropped? yurbud Jul 2018 #26
Child trafficking for profit ... keithbvadu2 Jul 2018 #27
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