It is with great excitement and happy tear filled eyes that we announce that we are FULLY FUNDED! This experience has been so humbling. You can make all the plans you want about how you think things will unfold, and where the money will come from, but in the end only God knows. He provides, and rarely in the ways you expect. We had donations of items to sell, cans to return, anonymous donations to our RR grant, people gave above what they need to at our sales and bought things for far more than they were probably worth. We received the gift of a working vehicle from some friends, so that we could continue to use our funds for getting our boy home, instead of trying to resurrect our dead car or buying something else. This last bump to meet our goal came from some very WONDERFUL young ladies that asked for donations for us on their Birthday invitations and raised $400! This gets us to our goal for bringing home Jacob. At this time we believe that we will be bringing home just him. We do plan to donate diapers (which we will purchase while in country) to the orphanage. Any funds raised beyond our fully funded number will go towards that or helping other families in their journeys to bring home their kids. Thank you all SO much for all of your support!! Please continue to pray for our little guy and for us. We should be travelling in August.
PS I still plan to try to sell more of the stuff from the garage sale this week to raise money for the orphanage. The rest of what is left after this weekend will be donated to the local homeless shelter/rehab center for their thrift store.
