$1 Adoption

We have been planning to host a fun and festive fundraiser to raise money for our travel to the Congo  to bring home our son, but since we have just recently been given the chance to go in November we are in a little bit more of a hurry!

We are excited for the opportunity to go earlier than expected, but still in need of funds for my (Brent's) flight to and 3 week stay in the DRC.  We have paid for the actual adoption expenses,  so all of the funds raised here will go toward travel.

We have been so blessed by the love and support that our friends and family have shown during this wild and crazy ride and we are asking for one more thing... $1...  thats right, one dollar.  

If each person who reads this simply clicks the Donate button above and gives one dollar and then and passes it on to all of their friends, neighbors and contacts just think of how quickly this could go!

Lets face it, it's $1, you wont even notice that it's gone!  But that dollar puts us that much closer to bring home our beautiful boy.

It's not just about the dollar.  Ideally every $1 gift would be partnered with an earnest prayer for a quick, safe and successful journey to the Congo and home again... and you can be sure that we are praying for each of you.

So that's it.  We are asking you to give $1 and then pass on the link by posting it on your Facebook (come on, you know you've posted stupider things!) Blog it, or send it to your contact list. 

If you would like to leave a message for us, we would love that to, every little bit of encouragement helps!

We pray God's rich blessing on you, thank you from our whole family!

Brent, Kate, Ava, Leora, Ellis, Violet and Congo Baby (Name TBA)

What a difference a year makes...

We haven't updated the blog for over a year, mostly because we have tried to keep things up to date via Facebook.
But we have had some changes and wanted to let everyone know what is going on with our adoption from the DRC.
In April of this year we welcomed little Violet Grace into the world and she has been such a joy for all of us! She is healthy, happy and full of life and spunk, so she fits right in around here!
Two weeks after Violet was born we received news that we had lost our first referral.  It is quite a long story as to how and why and frankly, in the end, we are not sure about every detail, but we know that he is with a loving family elsewhere. This was difficult news for all of us. 
We took time and prayed and felt led to continue with our plans with the Congo and with our agency and we continued to pray for just the right little boy for our family.
This summer we accepted a new referral of a little boy that we know is a gift from God!
Or paper work was done ( had been done for a long time!) and we were just waiting for his to be completed in the DRC.  We were  told that the wait for travel would still likely be in the early spring of 2013.  So imagine our surprise when we received an email last Sunday night stating that we could travel as early as November if we filed our I-600 form in the DRC rather than in the States!  We prayed about it and decided that I (Brent) will travel to bring home our son in November! WOW!
We had planned to do several fundraisers this winter, now that we don't have the time, we need to do get on the stick with some fundraising for the travel expenses ASAP!
We will keep you posted on all of the details and I will post pictures of our little dude today sometime!  Thank you all so much for your love and support through this loooonnnngggg process! It means so much to have friends and family like you.