We're in double digits!
It's been an incredible two months on the waiting list. We had our yard sale in June and raised over $500 thanks to everyone's donations! It was a fun day, and Thomas & Keller loved having a lemonade stand and raising money and telling customers about their little sister. It was also a great opportunity to tell our neighbors about our adoption. We have only lived in this house for a year, so we don't know our neighbors well, but many of them stopped by, so we were able to get to know them a little better and tell them about Elynne.
Since the yard sale there really hasn't been anything to do for our adoption. The paperwork is done and now we're just waiting. When we got on the list in June at #122 we estimated that based on the average of 3 referrals a month, we would be waiting about 40 months to hear that there was a little girl for us. But these last two months our agency has matched over 25 children with their families, so we have moved 25 spots on the waiting list to #97. We are so thankful and encouraged by this movement, and we're praying it continues!
When we got on the waiting list and thought it may be about 40 months until a referral, we decided to wait a year until we really focused again on fundraising. But with all this movement, we thought we should still do some things to raise money in the meantime. Just in the last two weeks we have been blessed with a couple of unexpected monetary donations from friends, as well as donations of mainly shoes and baby items for us to sell on Ebay and Craig's List. These two things together have totaled over $400 toward our adoption. We are so appreciative of your generosity and support!
It's been an exciting couple of months with this movement on the list. It's becoming more and more real!
Ways to pray:
- Please pray that this abnormal movement on the waiting list is the new normal. Pray that many children continue to be matched with their families.
- Pray for the people in our agencies and the people in Ethiopia who are working so hard to match these precious children to their families and get them home.
- Please pray for our fundraising. Pray that we are able to raise and save the money needed so that we do not have to take out an adoption loan when the time comes.
- Please continue to pray for Elynne (whether she's born or not, we don't know) and her biological family and her caregivers.
