I love coffee. You love coffee. I love helping others. You love helping others. What if we could combine our love of coffee with our love of helping… What’s that? There’s a fabulous organization that happens to combine these two wonderful things? Sign me up! Just Love Coffee is a fantastic company who helps adoptive families raise money with every…
Month: June 2014
Fundraiser Shop is Live!
It will now be much easier to spread the word about our fundraiser jewelry! I have opened an etsy shop with just our fundraiser crafts and jewelry. It’s fantastic news that our fundraiser jewelry is now available on Etsy! This new shop will make it much easier for people to support our cause while shopping for beautiful, handcrafted pieces. We…
Let the Paperwork Begin!
Never have I been so happy to receive paperwork in the mail! Today we received our fingerprint cards from Lifeline, which lead to online forms for FBI and such, which lead to reading more carefully the Alabama supplement to the adoption manual, which lead to lots more paperwork that we can already knock out of the way! Yes, it is…
143 million
143 million. That is the number of orphans in this world. 1 million of those are in China. As our family looks through the “Waiting Child” lists and prays for our future daughter, whoever she might be, it breaks my heart to see so many children on the lists who will never know a family, never know a home. Never…
“To Love and Be Loved” or the Speech That Shook Our World
“But what does God say to us? He says: ‘Even if a mother could forget her child, I will not forget you. I have carved you in the palm of my hand.’ We are carved in the palm of His hand; that unborn child has been carved in the hand of God from conception and is called by God to…