Lily's Prayer

The Lord has provided, Jadon is Home with his Forever Family!

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Lily is Twelve today!


I can not believe that my baby girl is twelve years old today! God has truly blessed us with an amazing young lady. We are so proud of her accomplishments and are so honored that God chose us to be her mom and dad. She is so full of life, dreams and has such a huge heart for God. I wished that at her age I would have been half as wise. As I've mentioned in our very first post about our journey leading to Lily's prayer, she has been a prayer warrior since the age of two. It has officially been a little over ten years now that she has been praying to be a big sister. She has not once let go of that dream. She has always shown great faith in believing that one day God will answer her prayer. She too is growing so much on this journey along with her mom and dad. She is learning that God does answer prayers but its in HIS timing and sometimes HIS answers are packaged different than our answers. My prayer for her going into this next year is that she will have her little brother or sister by her next birthday! We know our God is BIG and HE can and HE will move mountains to bring our child home soon in HIS perfect timing.

Please pray about helping us answer Lily's prayer by making a donation even if it's five dollars because as I say all the time....Little is much when God is in it! We are still praying for 100 entries by the 15th of March for our raffle. We are currently 69 entries away from that goal. God has been so good through the generosity of many people already this week. We only need 15 more donations to reach our goal of 40 by the end of this week.

Thank you all so much for taking a moment to read and keep up with our journey!

If you can, please take a moment to post a Happy Birthday wish to Lily! She would love that!

Blessings,
Cindy

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

PRAYING for 40+ donations by the end of the week.

We still need to hit a goal of 100 entries for our raffle but are praying that 40+ will come in by the end of this week. Why such an urgency you might ask? We were hit with the final invoice for our home study last night about two weeks earlier than we anticipated (1,173.00). We have had that money set aside for quite some time. However, we have had to use it this week to meet our deadline of paying our first of many payments to our agency. Basically to get our home study completed we have to first contract with the agency so that they will review the home study prior to its official completion. So we are trusting in God with the details and we are praying with expectancy that through the generosity of others and our current Donation Raffle that he will provide just what we need to get through these next few steps. After our home study is officially approved we can then start completing grant requests to hopefully get us through a few more steps. We can't thank each and everyone one of you enough for your prayers and support. Without you allowing God to use you in our journey whether through prayer and/or financial support we wouldn't have made it this far.

We love you and most of all our Mighty God loves you too!

Little is much when GOD is in it!

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

Monday, February 22, 2010

Donation Raffle Update -


We have added another great prize to our Donation Raffle...
Jump On It Inflatables has offered a One Day Free Rental of the following:
13x13 Princess Castle or 13x13 Red Balloon Adventure
Monday through Thursday, with available schedule.
This is a $100 value
www.jumponitinflatables.weebly.com

We are so grateful for the many of you who have shown us such generosity throughout this process. Thank you for allowing God to use you in such a mighty way. Please share this donation raffle with all of your family and friends. Thanks for being an advocate for our child to come home. We need about 90 more entries to reach our goal of 100 by March 15th.

All donations from this raffle will help us finish paying our home study and help us to send in our CIS Form that takes several weeks to process and has to be completed before we can finalize our dossier. Once our home study is complete we can begin applying for grants to help with some of the costs going forward.

As always thank you for continued support as God continues to prune our family tree. We especially want to give a big shout out THANK YOU to Erica Mierop of Signature Finishes and Allen and Vicki Beckner of Jump On It Inflatables.

Monday, February 15, 2010

ENTER TO WIN!

Erica of Signature Finishes has offered her services as a "raffle" for helping us raise money for the adoption.

Enter to win a Bathroom or Children's Room painted by Erica of Signature Finishes, Valued at $500. For every $20 donation made to our adoption fund Starting February 15th thru March 15th you will be entered in the drawing for a chance to win.
$20 =1 entry, $40 = 2 Entries,$100 =5 Entries, etc. You get the idea! To be eligible to receive the service package you must live in Middle TN or know someone you can give the package to as a gift in the Middle TN area. It is not redeemable for cash.


Below are a couple of pictures of Erica's work. You can also sign up for her fan page on Facebook under Signature finishes to see many more pics of her fantastic work. You can make your donation through the donation button here on our website or mail us a check made payable to Cindy Scott at 1015 West Kirkland Ave, Suite 202, Nashville,TN 37216. We will post a short video of Lily pulling out the winning name on our blog no later than March 20th. How cool to make a $20 donation to help an orphan come home to their forever family and have a chance to win an awesome painted room worth $500!

Please send this out to all your family and friends! We would love to meet a goal of 100 entries! Little is much when God is in it!



Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Detour

We have prayed for wisdom and our Heavenly Father has answered our prayers. Our journey to adopt has taken a detour. We are now pursuing to adopt a child from Ethiopia. Why Ethiopia? Why not? Seriously, the plight of Ethiopia is the same as Haiti it's just a lot farther away. Also, we have already been through the trans-racial questions and counseling so it only seems natural to continue with a trans-racial adoption. We know that God has called us to adopt an orphan and that calling has not changed just because Haiti adoptions are closed. We don't want to stay focused only on Haiti where we currently can not adopt and not give another orphan a chance to have a forever family by the end of this year.

There are so many blessings that we see now during our recent months leading up to our detour. We had not contracted with our former agency yet due to the lack of funds and now that has allowed us to change agencies without losing a great deal of money. We have been able to switch to an agency that specializes more in Ethiopia. Also because our home study was complete she can easily switch it to Ethiopia without a lot of extra work. God always has a plan for us and sometimes HE doesn't always reveal all the “whys” when something detours our journey. Duet. 29:29 “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” We are trusting the secret things are with God and moving forward to the plan He has revealed to us.

At first when we were told by our former agency that we should look into other adoption programs it was really hard to swallow. I did want to ask a lot of whys. Why can't we have another child by natural conception... it sure would be easier than this roller coaster? Why did the “baby boy” come into our lives for only a short period to only leave us heart broken shortly after? (read our very first blog last August). Why can't we adopt a child from Haiti? So after throwing myself a short pity party, it all started becoming clear to me again. It's God's story not mine and I have to let HIM continue being the author of this adoption story. God is stretching us and growing us and preparing us for the child he has for us. Everyday I am learning to Trust Him more and more. Here is something that I read this week on a friend's facebook profile that really opened my eyes: “When God takes something from your grasp, he is not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.”

Please continue praying for us. We have submitted our new application to Children's Hope International and should hear back from them next week. To get started with this agency and move on with the I600A we need to raise about $1800 which is about half of what we were needing to continue with the previous agency. Praise the Lord.

Our God is so Big and that's why we know that he can still bring our child home by the end of 2010!

We need 75 people to donate $25 to help is get moving forward again. Please pray about sponsoring our child to come home.

Spring is coming so when you start doing your spring cleaning please let us know if you have anything to donate for our spring yard sale.

God is good All the time! ALL the time God is good!