Jehovah Jireh-The Lord Who Provides!

I thought I would do a little recap on how God has provided through this adoption process.  If you don't know me very well...or more accurately who I USED to be, I was always stressed about money.  I was always concerned that there would not be enough.  So then I married a small business owner and got a little taste of what Faith really was. 

 

Nothing has grown my faith like this adoption process.  In the beginning I was so scarred that we would not have enough money to finish the adoption.  I mean its A LOT of money and we were struggling as it was.  I kept saying how is this possible?  Gavin was faithful through all my doubt telling me that through GOD ALL things are possible.

 

So when we decided to take that leap of faith and adopt, we were behind on our mortgage.  We had just paid off our last little bit of debt which put us a little behind on our mortgage(the credit card companies were not as nice as our mortgage company).  We do not believe that God wants us to be in debt to anyone so we made a decision that no money would go into the adoption until we got caught up on our mortgage.  So we hunkered down and in a matter of weeks Gavin got some good jobs that got us caught up.  About a week later we had dinner with some friends that gave us our first

$1,000

towards our adoption!  This was enough(with what we had saved, about $1000 more) to begin our home study.  Now like I mention we had just gotten out of debt and were not going to go back in it for any reason.  We new that God did not need us to borrow from someone to pay for His kids to be put in families.  Just as a side not we do not feel negatively about anyone who chooses to get loans to pay for their adoptions.  This is a personal conviction for us as a family. 

 

Next we needed to come up with close to

$3,000

for contract fees.  God provided jobs and Gavin worked hard and we were able to pay the fees out of our own pocket...praise God!

 

We then held three yard sale fundraisers which brought in about $6,000!  Thanks to all of you who donated stuff, helped set up and tear down, and prayed for us. 

 

We also sent our letters for family and friends explaining what we were doing and that we are selling T-shirt, cookies, and coffee to help us get our kiddos home.  This brought in about

$5,000 more. 

 

We then did a really fun fundraiser called Give1Save1 which brought in about $500.

 

God also blessed us with a $4000 matching grant through lifesong blessed us with about

$12,000! 

That is huge!

 

God then blessed our business with a HUGE job in which we were able to put about

$8,000

into the adoption!

 

On top of that we have had many generous people donate money just cuz.  Anywhere from $20.00 to $1,000.  Every single penny that you people have given towards our adoption has blessed us so much and we are so happy to call each and every one of you family!

 

As you can see God has in fact provided like crazy!  He has made this all possible and we thank each and every one of you for letting Him use you to fulfill His perfect plan.  We still need about $10,000-$12,000 for travel but we know without a doubt that God will provide this as well.  The fun part is seeing how he does it!