Thank you!

We just wanted to send out a great big *THANK YOU!* to everyone who helped us over the last few weeks by donating items for sale, tents, tarps, telling your friends, posting on Facebook, and coming by in person to offer your support for our garage sale/adoption fundraiser!! Because of you, we reached (and exceeded) our goal of $1,000 to cover our home study expenses. We raised a grand total of $1,103.20 in just three days! Thank you, Lord, you always give us more than enough!!

Here are some pictures from our big event ...

Garage/Bake Sale Fundraiser This Weekend

Thanks to the generous help of our many friends, neighbors, church and family, we have collected a houseful of items and baked goods to sell in our garage/bake sale fundraiser this weekend. We hope to have a good turnout of buyers and people who want to help support our adoption efforts. We have lots of baby clothes, maternity clothes, baby supplies, household items, furniture, toys and more!!!!

Here's a link to a more complete listing and photos on Craig's List:
http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/gms/1168864929.html

Our final meeting with the social worker was this past Monday, so we are almost finished with the home study. We are getting fingerprinted tomorrow and have our appointment with the CIS on Tuesday. Then it's just a few last requirements to fulfill and the social worker will be able to finish her reports.

It is/was our goal to use the garage/bake sale money to pay for the home study fees so we can get started applying for grants and loans to fund the next step, which will be submitting our dossier for translation and submission to the Russian adoption officials for consideration. We still have quite a few requirements to complete before we will be ready for this next step. In the meantime, please pray that God will continue to bless our efforts and provide the funding needed to complete this phase of the adoption process.

For any visitors to this site generated from the fundraiser or cards we have given out recently, please click here to learn more about our story and how we started on the Journey to Hope. Thank you for supporting us in this incredible adventure to bring Hope home!