Someone said to me recently that the amount of money that we are hoping to "raise" to help us with our adoption fees and expenses is just too big – that their
measley little $50 - $100 won’t even make a difference. Well, I’m here to say …
EVERY CONTRIBUTION MAKES A DIFFERENCE!
Every penny, nickel, dime, quarter, dollar … all those
little bits surely ADDS UP and gets us closer to the goal and lessens the
amount we need to come up with on our very own.
If every person felt that their small contribution doesn’t
make a difference and therefore did nothing, … then those people are right
because NOTHING is what we’d end up with.
In the last few years we've sent out letters and had many various fundraisers to help us go on mission trips to Honduras where we helped to serve the poor with medical and dental care, cement floors and work projects at a home for orphaned and displaced children. It seemed easier to ask for money when it was for a mission trip. Going into this adoption, asking for money to help us with our expenses seemed almost inappropriate, especially since we've had many who have helped us reach our monetary goals the last few years with the mission trips.
But, really ... this adoption, ... it's a mission too ... a mission of LOVE ... a mission to fulfill the call to care for orphans. And we're really pleased to say that some have already come alongside of us ... to partner with us as we endeavor to add two precious boys to our family ... two boys who will no longer be called orphans.
Sometimes, "thank-you" just doesn't seem like enough, does it?? As we receive each blessing, we keep track and we are trying to come up with a creative way to show our boys how many people were involved in bringing them home to us. If you have any ideas ... please share!! We'd really like to be able to "show" them ... that many hands were involved in helping them to become a part of our family!! Hmm ... I feel an idea forming ... oooh, ... I L-O-V-E when that happens!!!
But, really ... this adoption, ... it's a mission too ... a mission of LOVE ... a mission to fulfill the call to care for orphans. And we're really pleased to say that some have already come alongside of us ... to partner with us as we endeavor to add two precious boys to our family ... two boys who will no longer be called orphans.
We are so grateful to those who have contributed to our adoption fund!
TRULY GRATEFUL!!
Sometimes, "thank-you" just doesn't seem like enough, does it?? As we receive each blessing, we keep track and we are trying to come up with a creative way to show our boys how many people were involved in bringing them home to us. If you have any ideas ... please share!! We'd really like to be able to "show" them ... that many hands were involved in helping them to become a part of our family!! Hmm ... I feel an idea forming ... oooh, ... I L-O-V-E when that happens!!!
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