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Week 4

Week 4! This week we were able to talk to our agency and they told us that we are waiting family #13! The agency doesn't particularly go in order of waiting families as different families requests for children are different.  For example, if a family is requesting a baby girl then they may get matched before another waiting family who is requesting a 2-4 year old boy.  Family #5 had just received their referral the day we talked to the agency!  So very exciting! To be #13 sounds hopeful to me that we will be knowing our match soon!

Home life this week includes loads of organizing, making arrangements, and then enjoying the One Sought Me Walk for Orphan Care fundraiser that we have planned for  Saturday.  Our prayer was to have 153 people representing the 153 million children who are orphans world-wide.  Praise the Lord that we have over 165 registered and still hoping for a few to come out on Saturday at the last minute and enjoy this morning with us!

Friends are helping by volunteering their time, donating raffles, providing cupcakes, and hosting the kids area activities of a clown, face-painting, and a magic show! Our local Chick-fil-A is donating a free hot chicken sandwich to all those who registered! Feeling so very thankful and blessed by the hearts of those who are rallying around us to help us bring the children home.

Join us to pray for a wonderful event! Dear missionary friends of ours are going to be speaking about the love of Christ and the hope that God offers us.  Pray for hearts to be touched and decisions to be made to follow Christ!

Please pray too that will we reach our financial goal! We are in the home stretch, but it is still out of our reach and we need the help.  We are at a remaining total of $4,600.  Finally we are at a stage in the adoption process that we can apply for grants so that is next on the list! Thank you for helping and thank you for praying God's blessing upon this journey financially too! He continues to amaze us!

This week's verse:

"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails."  Proverbs 19:21


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