Well... the paperwork is done! The fingerprints are back! Our family life books have been handed out to adoption counselors! We are now driving a minivan with plenty of room for one more car seat! We are ready...with the exception of funding. We have made pretty great headway in this department, saving $ wherever we find it, and thanks to the support of amazing family and friends! In the last 5 months we have raised almost $400 from coffee and coffee sleeves, and we have already either paid or saved up nearly 40% of our total expected expenses (my business that was supposed to have died by now, has been doing even better this year)! I cannot attribute our progress with the adoption funding to anything but God's help. As of now we have about $17,000 left to go before we have what we need to bring a baby home.
We would really appreciate your help with this. We are planning an adoption fundraising garage sale for the month of June! If you are in the middle of a spring cleaning and have found some things that you are ready to part with, need some more room in the garage or basement, or have a bag for the thrift store sitting by your front door we invite you to bring that on over to our house, or we can arrange to pick it up. We will be accepting donations for our adoption fundraising garage sale June 1st-19th. The actual adoption fund garage sale will be held June 21st-22nd. Please feel free to email me at jkwilliams723@yahoo.com for details about where to drop off your items, and to schedule a time to do that.
As always we appreciate all of your prayers and support!
Our prayer requests at this time are:
-the health of the birth mom and baby that will choose us (and for the birth moms/babies that aren't going to choose us as well)
-the adoption agency and their ministry
-fundraising
-and children around the world who need homes
P.S. I have now added a donations button to the right of my blog for those of you who are far away, but would also like to help support our adoption. The donation button links to paypal, which is a secure site, and all donations will go directly into our adoption fund.
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