We need your prayers!

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the sweet emails about Alyssa and her adorable picture! She is a cutie-pie, but then again so are the other 51 children in the contest. All children are! The contest is open until October 11th so you still have lots of time to vote.

Chris and I received the exciting news that our homestudy is completed which means it just needs to be signed off by the Province and then all our documents, paperwork and homestudy will be sent to our agency, Kids Link. It will be translated and prepared for Ethiopia and then it will be sent to Ethiopia to be matched with our daughter!! I am such a sap but I couldn't help but cry when I read through the homestudy and realized we are so close to being matched with our daughter!! It is so emotional and exciting.

But, Chris and I truly need your prayers right now. We have about $4000 towards our adoption expenses but we need $12,500 BEFORE we are allowed to send our file to Ethiopia. We need to pay our agency fees and we also need to include a $6000 donation for our daughter's orphanage (this is mandatory for every adoption). So, we do not want to have to delay sending our file to Ethiopia because that means we will have to wait a lot longer to be matched with our daughter. So, please pray for our financial situation right now...we are in a draw for $10,000 on Oct 2nd and it would be so great if we won that!! (We bought a van from KIA and every one who did had their name put in the draw).

I am trying to think of another fundraiser to do to help with some of our costs. Even if we could raise the $6000 for the orphanage donation it would be a huge help!!! If you have any ideas, please let me know.

The things that may be impossible for men pose no problem for God because, as Jesus said, "With God all things are possible." (Matthew 19:26)

"Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find it; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For whoever asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, the door is opened." (Matthew 7:7-8)

I know these verses are true but at times we are so overcome with "how will we ever find the money" that we forget to trust in God and all that he promises!

Please pray!!!