There are only two weeks remaining for our donation raffle. We are still praying for a total of 100 entries by March 15th. We currently have a total of 33 entries. As for the 40 entries we were praying for by the end of the week, God continues blessing us and we are only 13 entries away from meeting that first goal. We are praying for 13 more donation entries by Wednesday.
We've noticed we have many readers from all over the United States and wanted to give a big THANK YOU to you all for following our journey! We've had one reader as far as Australia - totally cool!
Enter to win a Bathroom or Children's Room painted by Erica of Signature Finishes, Valued at $500 or for a chance to win a free day's rental from Jump On It Inflatable 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! Services must be redeemed in the Middle TN area and are not redeemable for cash. See our post titled "Enter to Win" to see pics of Erica's work and our post "Donation Raffle Update" for details on the rental. 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 for each prize on our blog no later than March 20th. So brown brag your lunch for a week or skip Starbucks a few times and donate to have a chance to win! 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 or have the coolest yard toy in the neighborhood for a day!
Blessings,
Cindy
Lily's Prayer
The Lord has provided, Jadon is Home with his Forever Family!
Lily's Prayer to be a big sister has been answered. We serve a mighty God!
Thank you to everyone who donated to bring Jadon home. You are greatly appreciated by the our Family!
Facts about Ethiopia
*The mortality rates in Ethiopia are among the highest in the world, which leads to having thousands of children orphaned and in need of loving families.
*Over 5 million children are orphaned due to poverty and the residual effects of war and drought.
*The number of orphaned children continues to increase as the diseases of poverty cause the premature deaths of parents.
*1 in 10 children die before their first birthday.
*1 in 6 die before age five. More than half of those deaths are attributed to malnutrition.
* 12% of children Lily's age in Ethiopia have jobs to support themselves and possibly are married.
These children are dying on our watch! Please prayerfully consider donating to help us rescue one of these children! Or better yet maybe God is calling you to also Adopt an orphan.
*Over 5 million children are orphaned due to poverty and the residual effects of war and drought.
*The number of orphaned children continues to increase as the diseases of poverty cause the premature deaths of parents.
*1 in 10 children die before their first birthday.
*1 in 6 die before age five. More than half of those deaths are attributed to malnutrition.
* 12% of children Lily's age in Ethiopia have jobs to support themselves and possibly are married.
These children are dying on our watch! Please prayerfully consider donating to help us rescue one of these children! Or better yet maybe God is calling you to also Adopt an orphan.
About Us
- The Scott Family
- We are a family united for one mission. That mission is to love as Christ has loved us and share his good news with everyone we can. We are Believers in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Our family was missing one of our memebers but now because of our Great Lord we have brought our son home to his Forever Family!
godforgives@bellsouth.net
Timeline
- 2007 Began praying about adoption
-Sept. 2007 attended an adoption seminar
- October 2007 Still unsure if adoption was God's plan and postponed moving forward but continued to pray for discernment
- June 2008 - Out of no where we were asked to consider adopting a little boy locally whose g-parents couldn't care for him. This quickly went no where! Continued praying for God's wisdom on what to do next.
- August 2008 Excited and ready to start the adoption procedures. Requested the pre-application to proceed with a domestic adoption.
- September 2008 After much more prayer and the overwhelming doom of the now doubled agency fees from prior year we decided to once again not move forward.
- January 2009 Began praying for Haiti as our people group in our Small Group class and still praying for another child for our family whether through natural conception or adoption.
- June 2009 Went on mission trip to Costa Rica. Learned a lot about trusting God during this experience that we can now see was part of the prepartion for this current journey we are on.
- August 2, 2009 God began to stir in our hearts about adopting again and this time we knew it was the real deal! This time was different. We knew it was not just about adopting to have another child. It is also about rescuing an orphan and giving them hope of a better future with Christ as the center. We felt God leading us to Haiti. A few weeks later through several chain of events and talking with another family adopting from Haiti we had confirmation that Haiti is where our child is waiting for us.
- August 24, 2009 Initiated the preliminary paperwork to get started from our newly chosen Agency, A Love Beyond Borders.
- September 1, 2009 Scheduled 1st Home Study visit
- September 4, 2009 Mailed in Preliminary paper work with our pre-application fee.
- September 18, 2009 1st Home Study visit was a success and we have now officially started the paperwork.
- November 11th, 2009 Mailed in Home Study paperwork. - December 5th, 2009 Second visit for home study - traveled to Chattanooga.
- Jan. 10, 2010 home study almost completed
- Jan. 12, 2010 Destructive Earthquake hits Haiti
- The remaining month of January - praying for discernment about Ethiopia if Haiti adoptions should close.
- Feb. 2, 2010 - Received official word from LBB that Haiti adoptions are closed and advised to look into a new program.
- Feb. 5, 2010 - Talked with Children's Hope International
- Feb. 9, 2010- Mailed in Application for acceptance into the Ethiopia program with CHI and $100
- Feb. 11, 2010 - Received phone call from CHI - We've been accepted
- Feb. 23, 2010 - Mailed in CHI contract $900
- April 2, 2010 - Finally received our approved Home Study
- April 3, 2010 - Mailed off our I600A to USCIS $830
- May 17, 2010 - Fingerprints and all Dossier paperwork is complete. Waiting for the I-171H approval from USCIS to send it in
- June 4, 2010 - Received our I-171H approval!
- June 7, 2010 - Had Dossier docs certified and shipped to CHI
- June 10, 2010 - Dossier headed to Washington DC
- June 18, 2010 - Officially a waiting family, we are on the list
- June 30, 2010 - We have a 3yr old son!
- August 19, 2010 - We received our court date for November 19, 2010
- November 17th, 2010 - Meetcha Date. We met our adorable little boy!
-November 19th, 2010 - Court day, Jadon officially became our son.
-January 3rd, 2011 - Gotcha day, we are all together, family of 4.
-January 8th, 2011 - Jadon came home to America!
-Sept. 2007 attended an adoption seminar
- October 2007 Still unsure if adoption was God's plan and postponed moving forward but continued to pray for discernment
- June 2008 - Out of no where we were asked to consider adopting a little boy locally whose g-parents couldn't care for him. This quickly went no where! Continued praying for God's wisdom on what to do next.
- August 2008 Excited and ready to start the adoption procedures. Requested the pre-application to proceed with a domestic adoption.
- September 2008 After much more prayer and the overwhelming doom of the now doubled agency fees from prior year we decided to once again not move forward.
- January 2009 Began praying for Haiti as our people group in our Small Group class and still praying for another child for our family whether through natural conception or adoption.
- June 2009 Went on mission trip to Costa Rica. Learned a lot about trusting God during this experience that we can now see was part of the prepartion for this current journey we are on.
- August 2, 2009 God began to stir in our hearts about adopting again and this time we knew it was the real deal! This time was different. We knew it was not just about adopting to have another child. It is also about rescuing an orphan and giving them hope of a better future with Christ as the center. We felt God leading us to Haiti. A few weeks later through several chain of events and talking with another family adopting from Haiti we had confirmation that Haiti is where our child is waiting for us.
- August 24, 2009 Initiated the preliminary paperwork to get started from our newly chosen Agency, A Love Beyond Borders.
- September 1, 2009 Scheduled 1st Home Study visit
- September 4, 2009 Mailed in Preliminary paper work with our pre-application fee.
- September 18, 2009 1st Home Study visit was a success and we have now officially started the paperwork.
- November 11th, 2009 Mailed in Home Study paperwork. - December 5th, 2009 Second visit for home study - traveled to Chattanooga.
- Jan. 10, 2010 home study almost completed
- Jan. 12, 2010 Destructive Earthquake hits Haiti
- The remaining month of January - praying for discernment about Ethiopia if Haiti adoptions should close.
- Feb. 2, 2010 - Received official word from LBB that Haiti adoptions are closed and advised to look into a new program.
- Feb. 5, 2010 - Talked with Children's Hope International
- Feb. 9, 2010- Mailed in Application for acceptance into the Ethiopia program with CHI and $100
- Feb. 11, 2010 - Received phone call from CHI - We've been accepted
- Feb. 23, 2010 - Mailed in CHI contract $900
- April 2, 2010 - Finally received our approved Home Study
- April 3, 2010 - Mailed off our I600A to USCIS $830
- May 17, 2010 - Fingerprints and all Dossier paperwork is complete. Waiting for the I-171H approval from USCIS to send it in
- June 4, 2010 - Received our I-171H approval!
- June 7, 2010 - Had Dossier docs certified and shipped to CHI
- June 10, 2010 - Dossier headed to Washington DC
- June 18, 2010 - Officially a waiting family, we are on the list
- June 30, 2010 - We have a 3yr old son!
- August 19, 2010 - We received our court date for November 19, 2010
- November 17th, 2010 - Meetcha Date. We met our adorable little boy!
-November 19th, 2010 - Court day, Jadon officially became our son.
-January 3rd, 2011 - Gotcha day, we are all together, family of 4.
-January 8th, 2011 - Jadon came home to America!
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
James 1:22 “ Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves but do what it says.”
James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
James 1:22 “ Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves but do what it says.”
James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
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