Puzzle Fundraiser

We had a friend tell us about an awesome Fundraiser that we are so excited to start! We also have a few other fundraiser we are currently looking into. So exciting!!


So, Here’s how it works:

We purchased this 1,000 piece puzzle of an African Safari that we plan to frame and hang in our nursery. We are inviting you to sponsor one or more pieces of the puzzle for $2.00 each or as much as you feel led to give. If we are able to sell enough pieces to complete the entire, 1,000 piece puzzle, we will have raised $2,000 for our adoption. With each piece of the puzzle you sponsor, we'll write your name on the back and begin assembling the puzzle.

If you are able or feel led to help us with this, puzzle pieces can be payed for by clicking the PayPal button on our main blog. Please be sure to include your name, so we know what to write on the puzzle piece! Also please remember that when paying with PayPal, they take a certain percentage of the money given. Or you can donate by sending it to our home address (please email tankman543212005@hotmail.com for our address).
Please share the link to this blog post and help us spread the word!


We will periodically post pictures of the progress of the puzzle. Once it is complete, we’ll frame it as a reminder of all those who helped bring our child home!

Thank you so much for your support and prayers.  May God bless all of you for being such a blessing to us!

Fundraiser

On Saturday January 19th we had an Adoption fundraiser with Scentsy, earrings and bracelets for sale at the Wellington Community Clubhouse. We were there from 9-2pm and Allan's grandparents were the only two who showed up. I have to say it was very disappointing but we will continue to try and trust in God's plan for us.

Lately we feel like we move 1 step forward and 3 steps back. We have had 3 documents denied from the State for Authentication. Which means we have to wait for these people to have the notary redone on their letters and then send them back in again which will take 5-7 days. Just when we think we are ready to send in all our paperwork to Ethiopia and actually start our wait time we have another set back! This has been a long journey with bumps in the road every step of the way! The paperwork process is only supposed to take 4-6 months to complete, it has taken us over 12 months and we still aren't done. It is not a easy road, but we know it will be worth it in the end. We just continue to trust in God's timing and pray for patience.
We have enjoyed going to an Adoption/Foster class they are offering at Biltmore Baptist on Wednesday nights. The obstacles we have faced we can use to help others who are behind us in the process and others who are ahead of us can help us. It is nice to meet new people who are on the journey whether for domestic or international adoption. God has placed so many people in our lives and we are so grateful.

Blessings

Time for an update!

We received our form back from Homeland Security and finished preparing our documents for Secretary of State. We had everything ready to be sent out last Friday only to find out that each document that has been notarized by another state, has to be sent to that state to be authenticated! It seems this paperwork continues to get harder and more complicated as we go. It has definitely been a journey through this adoption process  and not an easy one, but we continue to move forward by the grace of God. 

Our Amazing God continues to bless us through this adoption process and HIS timing is perfect. We recently found out that we still need about $4000.00 to send in our Dossier to Ethiopia. Then on the same day we found out that our paperwork was wrong and had to be sent to different states we also received a letter in the mail. We were awarded a grant from Families Outreach to help with our adoption! We are so thankful, grateful and blessed! It doesn't cover what we are short but it is a step in the right direction and another testimony that our God will provide! 


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The Word is always such an encouragement to us!

Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary. Isaiah 40:31

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.  Matthew 6:25-34