She Inspired Me

Leslie is such an amazing woman. I followed her blog back when she was adopting her daughter Kristina. I have corresponded with her many times over the last few months mainly because she and her husband have been thinking of adopting again. It nearly brings me to tears to read about the emotional turmoil she is going through because they do not have thousands of dollars laying around to put towards the adoption of a little girl with special needs that has been placed on their heart. Her blog is so candid and so real that I could not help but be moved. Leslie, I am rooting for you! If you want to be blessed today, please go read the last couple of posts on her blog.

At this time, I am putting my trust in the Lord that all of Alexsey's adoption costs will be taken care of one way or another. I don't know exact figures yet, but I just have to trust. With that said, I really want to focus on helping Leslie and her family to raise enough money to start the process of adopting a deserving, precious aging out of the orphanage little girl.

That means that I am no longer fundraising for Alexsey's adoption. All of my efforts on this blog from this point on will go towards helping the Landrums raise money for their adoption. I am sure many of you are wondering why them and not someone else? And all I can say to that is that God has laid this family on my heart, plain and simple.

With that said, I still have 13 adoption window decals available. I would like to donate all of the money to the Landrums that is raised from donations of people who buy a decal. The decals are not only beautiful but they are an awesome way to spread the word about adoption. Please consider buying one for $20 to show your support of this amazing family! You can check them out here.

Wouldn't it be awesome to know that you helped bring another child home? We need to partner together to bring this child home!

Prayerfully Consider

"Believe it or not, some people find a real blessing in partnering with adoptive parents to help bring an orphan home. God commands us to be one body of Christ and while some are not able to raise an orphan by adopting them, they feel blessed to be able to contribute something financially."

Well I've officially been quoted. I wrote this on an adoption forum, and someone thought it was enough said on the topic of receiving donations to help bring your child home.

I have certainly found this to be true, and it is people like this that play a vital role in helping an orphan to come home to their family. So thank you....... it is deeply appreciated.

Even in the midst of our own adoption, I feel that I should still help others adopting too. It may sound like alot of donation passing around, but it is much more than that. Above and beyond what we have saved for this adoption and what we give away as our normal tithe, my husband and I feel very passionate about helping others. After all, it really all belongs to Him, and I trust without a doubt the He will make our money go further than what John and I could do on our own.

We have been incredibly blessed to have so much support this adoption---- and one day Alexsey will know how many people went out of their way to be able to be a part of bringing him home! Thank you so much!

So I feel compelled to write that if you were thinking of donating to our adoption anytime this week that you please donate it to Amy who is going to travel this Wednesday on her second trip to adopt her little boy with Down Syndrome. She sure can use a little help. She already has three wonderful boys at home, two of them with Down Syndrome, and she is fixing to add one more precious boy to her bunch! She is doing this as a single Mom and I must say she is a great one at that! Some unexpected things have come up recently that have made finances an issue, so I am asking you to prayerfully consider donating towards her adoption.

Thanks!

God Wants Me to Shout it From the Rooftop!

I am just in awe how God is showing Himself over and over and over.

First, I got a surprise update yesterday to let us know that Alexsey is doing well!

Second, I found out last night that $6000.00 was donated to our family for Alexsey's adoption! Praise the Lord!

Third, our invitation to be fingerprinted for our I-600 came today! They barely got our homestudy on Monday. What took five weeks last time we adopted took less than a week this adoption!

God is moving mountains and the people He is using to work through are such an encouragement that I can't help but want to shout it from the rooftops! Thank You for confirming to us over and over that we were always supposed to go get Alexsey!

If you are reading for the first time, I encourage you to go back and read from the beginning because there has been some pretty amazing things that have happened on this journey so far. Not only have many people rallied around my daughter to help her raise money for her plane ticket to travel with us, but others have done fundraisers on their blog on our behalf, and fellow readers have rallied around other adoptive parents in time of need. So many prayers have been said that I feel they are paving our path to Ukraine. We have been blessed with pictures of Alexsey that we never expected, and we have met some pretty amazing people that have helped us with adoption paperwork.

I feel very blessed to be surrounded by such amazing people. Thank you. You are all partnering to help bring Alexsey home! I hope I am not the only one to shout this from my rooftop!

The Lord is so Good

Thank you so much faithful blog readers! Ashley, the mother of the family I previously blogged about has seen $779.00 come in since I first posted about her desperate adoption situation. I don't know who all of these generous donors were or if they even came from this blog, but I am praising the Lord anyway. God is so good......... Ashley's spirits have been lifted, and Grisha is going to come home!

Thanks again! Partnering together for the sake of bringing an orphan home so that they can grow up as a child is part of an amazing thing. I appreciate all of you who are helping to do this.

Blessings!

Please, please help

My heart is breaking for this family. I can't even begin to think of a more deserving family than Ashley's who is in the process of adopting a boy named Grisha. Their story is so inspiring and today they hit a huge roadblock. She is very discouraged. Basically they are in need of immediate donations to cover the $830 they need to redo their I-600A because of circumstances they had no control over. This family has been fundraising to bring their older son home for quite sometime and this roadblock is one they are not sure they can even overcome.

Please consider donating even a few dollars to them to help them continue the adoption process they have already started. They are in constant communication with their boy and they even managed to raise the money so that Ashley could go over and spend time with Grisha because the process was taking so long. This would be devastating to this boy if this family could not end up adopting him.

Please uplift this family in prayer------ they need so much encouragement right now. And if you could financially support them in any way------ you would be doing an amazing thing.