(JUNE 2013, UPDATE: I believe we are fully funded. Now that that fundraising is OVER, I can say that it wasn't so bad, that is not what I thought while I was fundraising though. It was very hard to trust that the LORD would provide for our process but HE DID!! It has been amazing to be apart of what God is doing in people's hearts all over our nation to love my son! THANK YOU ALL!)
I am not a person that can ask for financial help easily, let's just get that information out there. I guess in some ways I am hoping people will want to help us because we aren't adding a child to our home for our own glory. Nor are we desiring to complete our perfect family unit.(not that adopting for that reason is wrong at ALL) I am not struggling with infertility as far as I know :)
We decided to adopt to save a child from life in an institution, one I first learned about through my friend Grace and through this blog. http://theblessingofverity.com/ While my husband and I are trying to be as open as possible about finding the child we will adopt we have been moving toward adopting from this orphanage, the one the Bulgarian media call "Auschwitz" just a few months ago. We know there have been some improvements however the children in this orphanage still have a long way to go. I was overwhelmed just yesterday by the new pictures and descriptions of children just posted on Reece's Rainbow that are up for adoption from this institution. (you can see them by going to http://reecesrainbow.org/ in the search box type in #11 and you will be shown children from there)
I don't know what I can and can't share and perhaps this will all be removed later. I found these pictures on another person's blog that show the inside of this orphanage. I thought you might like to see them. Go here http://jamesonetwentyseven.weebly.com/adopting-from-bulgaria.html
I also found this story on a different blog, while it is not about the place I visited, I really identified with how this mom felt about leaving these kids behind. http://www.nogreaterjoymom.com/2010/06/i-left-my-heart-there.html
Adopting from Bulgaria costs about 22,000.00 give or take a couple thousand, which when you are talking about this big of a number what is a couple thousand either way? I would LOVE to raise it all, however we are also willing to take out some loans as well. However we have already invested about 1, 700.00 of our savings and we need about 1,500.00 more to complete our home study so we can apply for the loan. (amazingly we are close to having this amount raised!!) Our next big amount is 1,200.00 to the adoption agency and then 1,000.00 to put the commitment paper work through in Bulgaria. Then another agency fee of 1,200.00 will be due.
So I am just hoping that if you feel so led you might want to be a part of helping us free an orphan from this institution by donating to our cause. There is a box in the top right hand corner of this page where you can donate through paypal. You could also mail us a check at 2740 R street Apt 2 Lincoln Ne 68503.
I did some math that I found interesting...Now we all now that not every friend of ours on facebook is really a "close friend". Especially if you have my personality or view facebook simply as a networking place :). I have 698 "friends" on facebook. If each of them donated 32.00 my adoption would be fully funded. Isn't that crazy???
We have committed to a child. It was and still is hard to just be saving one. But I am happy to have the opportunity to adopt our future son, Simon. Simon is 8 years old and weighs 18 pounds. Yes EIGHT years old at EIGHTEEN pounds.
The need is real and we need your help to make a child's rescue a reality. thanks so much!
