We Are Matched!

Thank you so much for praying for us!  As of today, we are officially matched with Mommy D!! She is due to have a baby girl at the end of August....which right now seems forever away!  We are pretty excited and hope that since she isn't too far from us that we can build a bit of a relationship with her so that we can show her more about the love of Jesus.

Now we get to move on to the more unpleasant aspect of adoption....raising money.  It has been amazing to me how much adoption has changed since we adopted 6 years ago!  Even since we started our second journey a year and a half ago, adoption has changed.  We were notified by Angel Adoption that we should consider raising our limits for birth mother expenses, which we chose not to do.  By the way, this match does not come through Angel.  Our experience with them has been disappointing, but that is the risk you take as you learn, I guess. God has definitely been teaching us a lot of lessons through this whole ordeal...especially learning to TRUST Him, and take things literally a day at a time.

We have been given the amount that this adoption will cost us and we are about $7,000 short of where we need to be by the end of August.  Due to our having to pay off my hospital bills from last year, that ate at some of the extra savings we had.  We are going to trust that Jesus will help us by providing us with the amount that we need!  We will attempt to find some grants, but the last adoption proved futile in that area which was really disappointing!

How can you help?!  We are planning a fund raiser garage sale for June 6-8, so if you have any extra items laying around that you would be willing to donate towards our garage sale we would greatly appreciate it.  All funds will go towards our adoption!  If the Lord lays upon your heart to donate directly towards our adoption fund, you can do that through the paypal button we have established at the top right of our blog or you can contact us privately for our address.  Most of all, we greatly appreciate your prayers in helping us bring home our next forever child!