$1000 More!!!

We found out tonight that $500 more was given to our matching grant than we were originally told.  That's another $1000 for our adoption!  Praise the Lord!!!  Thank you again to the generous donors!

This week I've spent several hours working on applications for grants, a no-interest loan, and a fundraiser.
Although we prefer not to take a loan, we are willing to take a no-interest loan because we should be able to pay it back with the adoption tax credit we should receive.  We'd appreciate your prayers for the organizations we're applying to - that God would direct in each decision made.  Also, please continue to pray for us as we continue on this jouney.  Please keep Graceful Adoptions and Karen in your prayers as she will begin to show our profile to birthparents.  We want the child(ren) that God wants us to have.

I am very excited about the fundraiser we're applying for.  It's based on James 1:27 and and is called "Both Hands" because it helps both the widow and the orphan.  This works kind of like a Walk-A-Thon or a 5K race.  We find 10 people who are willing to work at a widow's home for a day (landscaping, home improvement, however they can help).  Those 10 people get sponsors (sponsors donate toward a cause if the people work at the widow's home).  Our adoption fund is the cause that receives the financial donations.  So, while we work to help a widow, money is raised to give an orphan a home.  We are applying to work through LifeSong for Orphans so that donors can receive a tax-deductible receipt.

If you want to read more about it, you can follow this link.
http://www.lifesongfororphans.org/bothHands.html

If you're interested in joining our Both Hands team (if we are approved) please e-mail me at marieangus@excite.com.


"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."  James 1:27