The pictures are from a reunion of ELWA Liberian missionaries and their "MK" kids. We were so thankful to be invited to it and it was so neat to be in the presence of so many godly people who love Liberia! I felt I was in the presence of royalty! (and I truly was)
Our adoption agency director is going to Liberia soon for a week to work on our case. Please pray that she is able to get a lot done and that God thwarts any obstacles that might come along to prevent her from progressing things. She is going to try and get a letter from the judge to give to the minister of health so that he will do our case history. The case history is necessary for the children's visas. This is very important that she is able to do this as well as schedule the exit interviews for the birth parents. Pray for her safety and the families that will be traveling to pick up their children with her. This is an exciting time as several families will be united with their children in the next 2 weeks!
There will be another group of families due to travel (including my sister and brother-in-law) hopefully by beginning of September. Because we do not have case histories at this time I do not believe that we will be one of those families. But miracles do happen so maybe!
If we aren't one of those families I expect that we will be in the next group of families to travel sometime between late September and Christmas time. We continue to pray for God's timing because only he knows best, we cannot fathom really what he is doing and all the details. So we are leaving the timing up to him! :)
On another note, we had an AWESOME garage sale this weekend and have raised almost 1,000 dollars just in the past 4-5 days! We are continuing to collect garage sale donations because it is such a great way to raise money, people are thankful to get rid of their old stuff, others are able to buy stuff they need/want for cheaper, and we get to bring home Serena, Gidstina and Gideon! It's a win/win/win thing! So we will keep it up for a few more months. So contact me if you have anything you'd like to donate!
This past garage sale, it poured down cats and dogs at the end and several of our neighbors came to help throw everything in the garage!
A big thankyou to Dreamy Gelato and Chocolates for raising over 400.00 dollars for our adoption through selling chocolates as well as collecting spare change! Wow!
This Tuesday, July 29th at 7:00pm I'm hosting a Taste of Home Entertaining Party to raise money for our adoption as well. My friend Kelly Clark is donating all of the proceeds from the party to our adoption! Thanks Kelly!
At this point, we are hard at work fundraising and I'm continually nesting and trying to get my home in order as well as get prepared for this homeschool year. We're definitely keeping busy!
Thanks to everyone for your support and prayers! These are three VERY loved kids! Can't wait to meet them!
