Blessed Beyond Belief

Can we just say that we have the BEST family, friends and yard sale shoppers ever! We are BLESSED BEYOND BELIEF! Thank you to everyone who has donated $$, donated yard sale items,prayed, posted our story on Facebook, Twitter, and/or your time helping with our gazillion yard sales we have had! Most of all we are raising some praise for our awesome God, a.k.a our provider!

A summary of the recent events to quickly catch everyone up....

We finally after about nine LONG months of paper chasing etc. we make it on the waiting list to be expecting a child from Ethiopia June 18th .as #47 out of 48 waiting families. We were expecting to have the next six to nine months to fundraise for our referral fee ($8235).

Thirteen days later we have a referral for our son Jadon. Never expected this so quickly but very grateful. When we hung up with the agency we knew we needed $5800 of the $8235 to secure him as our son. By the end of the day God had dropped that amount to $5500.

After much generosity from many people, family, friends and complete strangers and a last minute yard sale God has reduced the amount to $1000 that is needed for this huge step in getting Jadon in process to come home.

Our agency sent us the official referral packet and forms to sign this past week with the official request to send our $8235 within 5 days. This means our signed paperwork and payment to accept Jadon is due by Wednesday.

Please help if you can by donating any amount you are able. Little is much when God is in it!

Many have asked what is next after this step. Once we turn in the required paperwork and payment this week they will begin preparing our paperwork in Ethiopia and working on requesting a court date. We wait and continue to raise money for our travel expenses for two trips. Due to courts closing in Ethiopia from August through early October, we don't expect to travel until mid to late October for the first trip. After the first trip we will come home for 4-6 weeks before traveling the second time to actually bring Jadon home. We have a small window of being able to get Jadon home before Christmas but with God anything is possible!!! Keep praying for our journey and for Jadon especially!

F.R.O.G (Fully Relying On God)