Whew! The last few months have been crazy busy with fundraisers! Last weekend we just wrapped up the second huge garage sale, and we are exhausted!
I crunched numbers today and our financial need is down to $10,500! That is a huge number, but it is less than 1/3 of the total cost, so that is awesome!! Our first trip should be the end of July, so we are nearing the home stretch of fundraising as well as the adoption process. That is so encouraging! We are so thankful for all of the love and support thus far. Our local community has been especially amazing! Everything we have done has turned out well! Our long distance friends & family probably wonder why we're never fundraising, but we've done so much local stuff that we haven't done as much online. That is awesome! :-)
We have also been blessed with 2 matching grants and some super generous donations, which helped us meet both! That made a huge dent! (& to be clear - any size donation is super generous in my book) ;-)
For the next few weeks we are taking some down time to rest & enjoy our kids at home. We have been going 100mph for several months now, and we need some rest. At the center of our desire to adopt is the desire to share our family with children in need. This only works if our family is healthy, happy, and well-tended to. Our children deserve our best. So perhaps it seems irresponsible to rest while we still have so far to go, but this is what our family needs. We will still work on smaller fundraisers, but don't look for anything big until July. Please keep praying for our process, especially for the boys who are about to have their lives changed in a huge way. Thank you so much for the way you have loved our boys. As I sit and reflect on this process, what blows me away the most is how so many people are rooting for these boys - children who were largely forgotten by the world are now loved from afar by so many people. <3
Keep praying & sharing. Thank you for being part of our tribe.
www.reecesrainbow.org/sponsoroden-2
I crunched numbers today and our financial need is down to $10,500! That is a huge number, but it is less than 1/3 of the total cost, so that is awesome!! Our first trip should be the end of July, so we are nearing the home stretch of fundraising as well as the adoption process. That is so encouraging! We are so thankful for all of the love and support thus far. Our local community has been especially amazing! Everything we have done has turned out well! Our long distance friends & family probably wonder why we're never fundraising, but we've done so much local stuff that we haven't done as much online. That is awesome! :-)
We have also been blessed with 2 matching grants and some super generous donations, which helped us meet both! That made a huge dent! (& to be clear - any size donation is super generous in my book) ;-)
For the next few weeks we are taking some down time to rest & enjoy our kids at home. We have been going 100mph for several months now, and we need some rest. At the center of our desire to adopt is the desire to share our family with children in need. This only works if our family is healthy, happy, and well-tended to. Our children deserve our best. So perhaps it seems irresponsible to rest while we still have so far to go, but this is what our family needs. We will still work on smaller fundraisers, but don't look for anything big until July. Please keep praying for our process, especially for the boys who are about to have their lives changed in a huge way. Thank you so much for the way you have loved our boys. As I sit and reflect on this process, what blows me away the most is how so many people are rooting for these boys - children who were largely forgotten by the world are now loved from afar by so many people. <3
Keep praying & sharing. Thank you for being part of our tribe.
www.reecesrainbow.org/sponsoroden-2
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