Pasta, Yard Sale, Paperwork

Pasta, Yard Sale and Paperwork OH MY! We are winding down on our Pasta Sale until the next round at a later date. We’ll continue collecting orders until Sunday, October 4th. The online ordering should be opened for two more additional weeks but remember you will have to pay shipping. If you can, it would be better to order through us by Sunday so that we can save you the extra bucks. We soooo appreciate everyone who has ordered Fun Shaped Pasta to help bring our child home.

We are now in Yard Sale planning mode! Thank you so much to everyone who has cleaned out their homes to donate items to our yard sale. The overflowing support has been awesome! We are praying now for great weather next Friday, 10/9 and Saturday 10/10 and for a great turn out of people to buy, buy, buy :-) We are planning to sale baked goods too! I haven’t done that since I was Lily’s age. I remember our softball team would sell brownies, cookies, and pies in front of the Piggly Wiggly (now HG Hills) on Saturday mornings. Great memories and now I feel old too!

The paperwork is off and running… well at least my side of it. Please pray for the Scott Family right now. David’s Nanny has only a short time left with us here on this earth. We are at peace with it because we know that her heart belongs to Jesus and that soon she will not be suffering anymore. David has been trying to go visit her as often as possible so there has not been much spare time for him to start on his part of the paperwork. Right now he is doing what is most important at this moment. We know that we are not working on our time frame and honestly we need to raise a lot more money before turning it all back in to our social worker. It’s so hard to not be anxious! We want to bring our child home as quickly as possible but we are keeping our focus heavenward! We know that God is in control and we choose to press on! Phillipians 3:14 says “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

Our next fundraising agenda is to sell T-shirts. So let us know if any of you have some creative ideas or know people that can help us out with getting them printed cheap.

Remember to praise God because HE is worthy! I can’t imagine my life without my Jesus! Thank you LORD for your son paying my debt so that I can be free! Thank you LORD for your love, grace, mercy and strength that you pour out over us daily!

Remember to mark your calendars to come check out our yard sale next week. I’ll post the address closer to time.

Thank you for all of your prayers and keep them coming. Especially pray for our child waiting in Haiti that he/she is staying healthy, has plenty of food and water, has people loving on him/her and telling them about Jesus already! We are coming for you sweet child!

Blessings,
Cindy

First Home Study Complete

We had our first home study on Friday. We spent a good amount of time making sure the house was in order. I'm not quite sure what in order looks like, but our house was it on Friday.

We were a little nervous about some of the questions we may be asked, but God saw us through it. The lady we are working with could not have been a nicer person. She made it plain and simple. She was great and we look forward to our next meetings with her. She gave us our paperwork and I do mean paperwork. I've worked in real estate and I have seen my share of paperwork before, but this paperwork is intense. The questions we were nervous about, well let's just say we get to write about those questions extensively. We are ready to get started and I know God is right by our side throughout this process.

We look forward to sharing our adoption story with you as we walk through it.

In HIS Grip,
David

Help us bring home our child - Check out our Fun Pasta Fundraiser!

Right now Lily’s Prayer is fundraising with a great company called “Fun Pasta Fundraising”! We are working hard to raise money to bring home our child from Haiti as quickly as possible and we would appreciate your support. Here’s how you can help.

They offer a wide variety of fun and delicious pasta products…Here are just a few of the pastas offered: Cat lovers, Dog lovers, Girlfriend Pasta, Tailgate and Celebrate pasta, Slapshot Hockey Pasta, Soccer, cheerleading, basketball, baseball, Gobble it Up Thanksgiving pasta, Halloween Pasta, Christmas Tree pasta, Cheesy Farm animal pasta, Chili kits, Chicken Noodle pasta(noodles are shaped like chickens) and just in time for Football season there are 27 different College Logo Pastas (Big Orange UT Pasta)!

Check it out – there’s something for everyone! There are meal gift bags available and each pasta comes with its own seasoning and three recipes. And the prices are affordable – you can support our adoption with prices ranging from $6.50 to $11.00.

If you are a local family or friend you may email your order to us at godforgives@bellsouth.net. Be sure to include which items you want, and your quantity. We will then send you a confirmation of your order, your total due and where you can send your check. If you are not local or it would be easier for you to have it shipped directly to your home, you have an opportunity to place an online internet order with Fun Pasta Fundraising. Each order placed sends 40% of your order total directly to our adoption account (excluding the shipping cost for online orders and taxes for TN residents). 40%!!!

So, please go to the link below and have some fun shopping. Make sure if you are ordering online that you don’t forget to enter our account # at checkout so we get the proper credit.
We are taking orders for the next 3 weeks so send this on to all of your family and friends and help us bring home our child! Just think every time you cook a delicious bag of fun shaped pasta you’ll be reminded that you helped with bringing an orphan home to their Forever Family!

First click on the following link to check out the fun pasta for sale
http://www.funpastafundraising.com/images/stories/brochure.pdf
After you have made your selection(s) either email your order to us or
GO TO: www.funpastafundraising.com
Click on the link “CYBER SALES-Support Your Group”
At CHECKOUT, please input our ACCOUNT # LP10

If you would like to make a donation for our adoption but do not want to order pasta, you may do so on our website using the paypal donation button.

THANK YOU for your support and God bless you all!

David, Cindy, Lily and our child waiting to come home

“The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His face upon you and give you peace.” Numbers 6:24-26

Wonder If?

It's been a great Labor Day Weekend. We've definitely labored around the house all weekend. Our first visit from the social worker is scheduled for September 18th. Our house is always "liveable clean" just not "visitor clean"! So we have spent several hours already trying to make the house look like June Cleaver lives here. Our biggest project was cleaning out the office room which will soon be the bedroom for the newest member of our family. I can't wait until we know if it is a girl or boy so that we can start decorating the room for him or her.

I know that we are still very early in the process and soon I will be overwhelmed by the paperwork so for now I have been reflecting on the "wonder ifs?" of the unknown journey. I wonder if the child God has for us is a boy or girl? I wonder what age he/she will be? I wonder how long we will have to wait? I wonder how soon we will be making our first visit to Haiti? I wonder how long it will take us to raise the funds for the adoption? I wonder how excited he/she will be to see us? I think you get my point as to where my mind has been lately. The one thing I don't wonder is how much God is in this journey. HE is involved 100% of it! So when my mind is off wondering I can easily reel it back in because God's plan is perfect. It doesn't matter if it is a girl or boy, how long we wait or when all of the funds are available. God has the perfect child picked out for us and HIS plan for bringing our child home is in HIS perfect timing.

A few things coming soon are David's first blog, our first fundraiser and yard sale details! Just like Lily said in a previous blog... We can't wait to see how many lives God will change through our journey and we know our lives will never be the same! It's all for HIM and HIS glory!

Not to us, O LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness. " Psalm 115:1.

In Christ's great love,
Cindy