On Tuesday's season finale episode of Jill & Jessa: Counting On, the Seewalds and several of Jessa's siblings continue their mission trip in Central America with the Dillards. The crew visits an orphanage and discusses adoption.
"I wish I could gather up an armload and carry 'em out," comments Jessa Seewald in the video below. Both the Dillards and Seewalds hope to adopt in the near future. Will you be watching the season finale?
I enjoy the very much I just hope it doesn,t get canceled
ReplyDeleteI agree, with you. I want it to stay on the air too. I can't wait for the second season to start. How about you?
DeleteI agree. One of few decent programs on TV.
DeleteI enjoy the movie very much loved the whole family you very friend diane
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely!!! I love this show and keeping up with the kids. I just wish Derek would trim his beard and cut his hair.
ReplyDeleteYes I will be watching
ReplyDeleteIs Jessa pregnant? Holding clothing in front of herself when walking around the orphanage and when holding a baby she seems to have a bump. Maybe...
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Duggar is Jinger and Jordyn.Jordyn is my favourite duggar because she is a great duggar and Jinger is also a good person.
ReplyDeleteMe 2. They are my 2 favorites and always will be.
DeleteWill jeese and jill counting on be relised on dvd as i can not get tlc chan
ReplyDeleteThere are thousands of children in America that need to be adopted!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAdopt a child in America!! Why do people forget about American children?
ReplyDeleteA child is a child is a child, doesn't matter where on GODS earth you adopt a child as Jesus loves all his children everywhere...not just American.Am I right? Yup, I know I am...blessings.
DeleteAdoption might be easier elsewhere, depending on how deeply they look into the backgrounds of the prospective parents and how strict the adoption standards are.
DeleteI know someone who managed to adopt a child in a very sneaky and underhanded way, just shy of breaking the law. No background check, some lawyers, and some money. When there's a will, there's a way. Sure hope that's not what I'm about to see on TV tonight.
DeleteAs an adoptive mother, I am going to give the Duggars some unsolicited advice. If you are serious about adopting, prepare yourselves as best you can through using the services of an experienced and reputable agency, seek counseling, and read all you can get your hands on. Talk with folks who have had this experience, both adoptive parents and adoptees. Understand that an adopted child is going to come to you with a very unique set of needs and experiences that they likely will not be able to articulate to you, regardless of their age. Research shows us that even newborns can suffer long lasting emotional scars when separated from bio mom at birth. This is called the Primal Wound and there's a book by that title which is a must read.
ReplyDeleteAdoption has been a joyous and fulfilling, yet challenging experience for our family. Love and prayer is not all you are going to need on this journey. Best wishes!
As another adoptive mother, I agree. Love, security and stability is not always enough.
DeleteHappy Orthodox Easter!
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely to adopt and all, but does anyone consider whether or not these children want to be part of such a strictly religious family? Would they have any choice, later, if they decided not to follow the same religious path their parents do?
ReplyDeleteI would hope that lifestyle was taken into consideration and scrutinized before any orphanage allowed a child to be adopted. But I'm afraid there are places where it wouldn't matter, and the child's fate was sealed when he/she was handed over. I've read the adoption horror stories out there, and have even seen the consequences on my local news. Some heartbreaking things can happen after adoption by some parents.
DeleteIsn't that the case with children adopted into any family? You realize every family has a belief system, right?
DeleteThis is such a great show and brings awareness of the orphanage and those wonderful children. The Duggars are wonderful people and I enjoy their peaceful demeanor. I'm looking forward to next season and maybe another Dugger engagement. Anna seems well informed of her choices and my heart goes out to her in these trying times. This is life, you just never know what's around the corner.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know what the name of this orphanage is, or who runs it?
ReplyDeleteI'd want to watch it, but since we don't get the show here in Ecuador, I'm going to have to wait for someone to upload it to YouTube.
ReplyDeleteI love this show and can't believe it is finale time. I will be watching. I hope TLC will consider another series of Counting On episodes in the near future. Ellie and Lily, you are a blessing to us. I hope you will continue your wonderful updates, especially during hiatus. Thank you, Barbara
ReplyDeleteI know this is off topic but I'm so glad the Daggar girls wear dresses/skirts. Its refreshing to see women who act like woman...be what God intended them to be. God bless them!
ReplyDeleteMost women feel that "God" intended them to wear whatever is most comfortable, and that you can be a woman in whatever you have on. That's a very odd remark you made there. Some will find it offensive.
DeleteDebrorah was a soldier. She led the men in battle. She was doing what God told her to do also.
DeleteSo you can't act like a woman in pants????????
DeleteI'm all woman in my yoga pants, trust me.
DeleteI agree! :-) @5:36pm
DeleteJust FYI, I'm acting like a woman today in my dress pants, collared blouse, and high heels, sitting in my office at my executive job. In a bit I will drive home like a woman and then make my way in shorts and a tank top to my spin class like a woman. Later this week I'll earn my paycheck (6 figures annually) like a woman and at some point this week my fiance is going to make us dinner; I'll eat that like a woman.
DeleteVery much so!!! Thanks for keeping us all in the loop! 😀
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the show also but would like to hear even less about Josh.
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DeleteYes I will be watching!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy watching the show very inspiring and heartwarming to watch hope to see you next season
ReplyDeleteLove the show! Praying for another season. God bless all of you.
ReplyDeleteDear Jessa & Ben, the Duggar family, and anyone else reading this,
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping you guys read this blog or rather that my message reaches you guys. As a fellow Christian and Christian aid worker I would like to alert you of the issues with orphanages in developing countries, as well as international adoption. Where gathering less-fortunate-than-someone-else children into orphanages at first-glance seems like an easy fix to widespread suffering, as intermational afoption often seems too, those two ways of helping disagvantaged children should be our very LAST resort amd very rare. Sadly orphanages around the world have become business, an easy way to get funding from abroad, and easy way for foreigners to "do good" and easy their "guilt" by volunteering amd doing missions trips amd stuff donations. Sadly, however, these often only warp the treatment of children in the target community. There are countless people in developing countries who would gladly offer up their own child for foreign adoption. This comes down to some very sad core issues: Lack of human value, lack of love and empathy for one's own child, twisted values in the community (material/monetary improvement/gain/savings over family ties), and so on. The value of children is more than lacking in many impoverished communities. What the children first and foremost need is affirmation of love not from abroad but from their own parents, own extended family, own community, and the knowledge thay they have irrefutable human value in the eyes of their loving Creator. They need an identity that is not marred by their own flesh and blood throwing them in an orphanage, for the sake of material benefit or saving on food budget or to "learn English" or "a better life in America". All that will remain in their mind is my own community/family/missionaries did not deem me important enough to invest in my life in my own country, own family, own society, own culture. So what I'm saying is, please encourage your affiliated organizations and churches to stay away from quick fixes and concentrate on family ministry, sustainable livelihood, Biblical values, human value, value of children! and so on. In Christ, A Fellow Missionary
Although I would agree with most that you wrote, a disagree with your assessment of the people. With all due respect, I think you are blinded to the humanity of these people by your Christian beliefs.
DeleteThese people seize an opportunity to get out of poverty and perhaps give their children a better life. One can understand that. It does not mean that their families do not love them.
Instead of condeming them by assuming they lack family values, look at what actual aid you are providing. Are you efforts directed at effective change? I suggest you read 'The White Man's Burden' to gain a better understanding of how effective this 'I know what is best for you' type of aid is. That includes preaching your own brand of religion on others.
This 'if only they were like us' does not work.
I still watch. Would like more focus on all the older kids. Plan on watching the season finale
ReplyDeleteEvery time visitors appear at these orphanages these poor kids are traumatized by repeatedly getting their hopes up and then let down. To them, "Americans" are (usually) white people who show up for a couple of hours, take selfies with them, maybe distribute candy or other items, and then go home. That isn't love, and it isn't stable. It's sad, confusing, and abusive to these kids who are already having a difficult time. Each one of them is thinking about what they need to do to be rescued or gifted with more items: be cuter, sing and dance, say the right thing? I don't doubt that the visitors mean well but they should be smart enough to consider the implications of their actions.
ReplyDeleteYou make some great points. Thanks.
DeleteWhile I understand and agree with the above stated views on visiting orphanages, I do take exception to pointing out that the visitors are usually "white" Americans. Racism is wrong towards ALL people - including "white" people.If you would have named any other race --LOOK OUT!! Well, don't do it to white people who are probably trying to help out orphanages the only way they know how!
DeleteSuch a sweet family, I wish nothing but blessings for them and hope the show continues as well ❤
ReplyDeleteHELLO. I LOVE ALL OF THE DUGGARS. WITH ALL OF MY HEART.. AND I WOULD LOVE TO MEET THEM ALL IN PERSON ONE DAY TOO.. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.. ANNE JOHNSON
ReplyDeleteThis was really cool for me as I was adopted. I don't remember a lot as I left China when I was only ten months old.
ReplyDeleteJessa said she had to go to Michelle when she felt overwhelmed, and that's with just one child. Now she thinks she's going to adopt, on top of all the other children she will probably also have?
ReplyDeleteSo should people never visit an orphanage unless they intend to adopt? And then what happens to all the other kids who don't get adopted? My guess is the orphanage staff explains why people are visiting and helps the children understand these visitors' intentions.
ReplyDeleteJessa & Jill, in the clip, do seem like they're going just to have a look around and cuddle a few kids and muse how they'd like to take them all home. Not much of a point to it other than filming, and I don't know how you'd explain that to the kids.
DeleteI agree that of it is always handled in a sensitive way visits would be enjoyed by the children. Also visits would serve all the purposes. Closed to visits would not be healthy.
DeleteLife means receiving others for many reasons. I can't see anything wrong with a humble attitude.
DeleteThis expands and challenges the idea of being family. Visiting between members of a larger family is right.
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