Well, the Chinese New Year is winding down now, and our adoption agency should receive some new Children to be matched from China any day now. We are praying that the little girl God has for us will come soon. We are so blessed by so many of you praying, asking, encouraging, and giving towards our adoption. Thank you for all of your constant support...it is more appreciated than you can know.
Since we began this second road to adoption we have been saving money, and trying to figure out how much we would have in our personal bank accounts to go towards this adoption. In looking over the figures this past week we figure we have saved up $9,000 to go towards the adoption (praise God!). This should cover all of our airfare and travel while in China. Our final expense will be our in country Adoption Costs which was initially $11,500 when we first applied to China, but has now risen to $13,200. We are still waiting to find out if we are grandfathered in to the first amount. With the $4500 we have raised over the past couple of months, this leaves us with only $7,000-$8,700 needed to take care of everything. (We are excited about this!)
We have a SBC Pastors Grant that we will find out for sure when we get the referral which we hope is around $2,000, and possibly a matching grant with Funding Hope that could pull in $3,000. I have talked to my great friend Jason Sobol who is a Lucas Arts Star Wars artist on designing a shirt, so those may be going on sale in the very near future. Our Homeschool Coop sales have been going wonderful and the people have been very gracious to us...we are in route to raise $1,000 from there as well. Any prayers are appreciated as we near completing this task... We are so excited about adopting again and if anyone wants to talk more about it we would be glad to. Here is a video that we saw tonight that really rocked us to the core. We cannot wait to get our little girl home...thank you for walking alongside of as in this momentous occasion.
