For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, " Abba, Father!"
Romans 8:15
"If I were to ask God why He lets poverty and injustice exist, why there are so many orphans and why He does nothing about it, I am SURE He would ask me the same ..."
My name is Jessica and my dear sweet hubby is Kelly. We have three beautiful girls, big sis and little sis plus our newest little baby sis :) Welcome to our site where we will blog about our journey to grow our family through adoption in Africa.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Crazy Love
This post is in response to Linny's blog. My first post is really long and ended up being out tithing, you can read it here if you'd like.A little about us: We attend In Focus Church and have been members for only a short time, but we are quickly making it home. (We moved from a very big church to a smaller church in the same town.) We do tithe, and we are excited to be giving God what is really already His. I am getting to know the middle school girls at our church as I help as a small group leader. They are such a delight and I pray that they will love Jesus as much as I do now as an adult and as much as I wish I had when I was their age. Our church has a brand new ministry to bring awareness about orphans and adoption that my husband and I are hoping to be a vital part of, it's kick off is actually this Sunday! We are raising money for our adoption of a child that we know God has hand picked for us in Ethiopia. We know God will provide what He has called us to! Any money donated to us will be used to pay for the adoption. Here is a list of the estimated costs.You can email me any questions at ss.scrappers@gmail.com
We are starting our adoption process in Ethiopia too. I got your blog from Hyperactive Lu. I would love to email with you. I have two blogs. 1 thepirklehome.blogspot.com, which I hardly ever post, but did post a few things not too long ago about adoption and the church if you want to read. Then the other I just started called addingtothepirkles.blogspot.com. Hope to hear from you, and I can't wait to hear about your Church fundraiser
Sponsor One of our Girls in their 1 mile Family Fun Run!
How you can help:
1. Most importantly, pray!
Pray for us, our agency, and our little boy that will soon join our family.
2. You can donate.
Our adoption is going to cost between $25,000-$38,000. Our God is BIG and we know HE will provide! You can see the complete cost break-down here. You can safely donate thru the button below. Thanks for all your support!
3. Do you have a great fundraiser idea to share with us? We are all ears, please share, share, share!
4. Are you the very organized type, do you love to plan events? Maybe you could do more than just participate in a fundraiser, we will accept any and ALL help ;)
Just wan to give...
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T-shirts!!!
CLICK THE PICTURE TO GO TO THE COTE FAMILY'S COFFEE STORE
We earn $ from each item purchased to go toward funding our adoption!
Our Family
The Three Girlies
Adoption Timeline
6/6/11 - Finished application and scheduled doctor and homestudy appointments.
6/2/11 - Received an email fromour family coordinator and told that the policy has changed, we can come back into the program WITHOUT waiting till baby is 6 moths old!
11/6/10 - Photography Fundraiser (+650)
9/19/10 -Children's Consignment Sale (+330)
7/12/10 - We are pregnant! Adoption put on hold until new baby is 6 months. :(
7/8/10 - Homestudy emailed to AWAA for approval
7/7/10 - Paid balance for homestudy (-$800)
6/29/10 - Received our Marriage Certificate from NC (finally!)
6/27/10 - Third Homestudy Visit
6/17/10 - Received Jessica's Birth Certificate from D.C.
6/15/10 - Received Criminal Checks {No Records! ;) }
6/12/10 - Yard Sale (+$480)
6/10/10 - Second Homestudy Visit
6/5/10 - First Homestudy Visit
6/3/10 - Both of our Physical Exams
6/1/10 - Jessica finished Hague Online Training
5/28/10 - Kelly finished Hague Online Training
5/26/10 - Paid 1st payment for Home Study (-$1007)
5/15/10 - Yard Sale/Bake Sale (+$490)
5/14/10 - Bake Sale @ Walmart (+$184)
5/7/10 - Assigned a Family Coordinator, started paper chase and registered for Hague Training (-$175)
4/29/10 - Mailed Application for Homestudy to CFS (-$100)
4/29/10 - Mailed Paperwork and 1st Program Fee to AWAA (-$1500)
4 comments:
Wonderful post sweet friend!! Yippee Jesus - another little one finds a family!!
Can you email me at:
APlaceCalledSimplicity@yahoo.com
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We are starting our adoption process in Ethiopia too. I got your blog from Hyperactive Lu. I would love to email with you. I have two blogs. 1 thepirklehome.blogspot.com, which I hardly ever post, but did post a few things not too long ago about adoption and the church if you want to read. Then the other I just started called addingtothepirkles.blogspot.com. Hope to hear from you, and I can't wait to hear about your Church fundraiser
You are doing such great things and you probably dont hear it enough, so thank you... :)
this is so fun...this crazy love!
blessings to your family on this beautiful journey!!
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