We Earned our Matching Funds!

And by the way, we have TOTALLY earned the $2000 matching gift from our generous donor for April!  Yeah to all our amazing donors and thank you to our matching gift donor for motivating us!

Rummage Sale a HUGE Success!

Thank you to all those who donated items for our rummage sale, and all those who volunteered on the day of our sale!  Thanks to the generosity of you all we raised a total of about $2,300, which includes the money we made on our March "mini" rummage sale in my front yard!  I don't know about you, but raising a couple K off of stuff you didn't want or need sounds like a pretty great deal to me!  So thank you , thank you, thank you!  A special shout out to Traci Feaster (and Matt who watched the kids so Traci could help), my parents, Ralph and Maureen Feaster, who kept us fed, Colleen Lancaster, Bobby and Laura Moore, Jaime Marlowe, Barbi Jones, Steve Kacmarcik (who sold the impossible), Charles Lucas, Natalie Harden, Genny Drouin, Jamie and Tim Eisenbeisz (who watched my kids overnight and hauled them to all their Saturday activities), and if I forgot anyone I'm so sorry!

We put a few signs up saying we were raising money to bring Ai Lan home from China, and you know what, it was really cool to see how some of our shoppers donated money beyond what we were asking for the items they bought.  One woman bought $1.50 worth of stuff and handed me a $20 and told me to keep the change!  Many shoppers just rounded up to the closest dollar or $5.  It was really sweet.  I had the chance to share about the redemptive nature of adoption to a few people and was especially blessed to hear other's adoption stories.  God is good.  

Matching Funds in April! Woohoo!

If you were considering donating to bring Ai Lan home, April is a great time!  We have a very generous donor that is willing to match dollar for dollar everything we raise in April up to $2000!

We are so grateful to our generous friend (you know who you are!), and we are honestly blown away by the continued support of our friends and family.  We couldn't do this without you!  We are just over a third of the way to our fundraising goal, and we have two fundraisers coming up in April (Rummage Sale) and May (Love to the Rescue: Prom Night for Ai Lan).  God can do this!  We have faith!

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights..." 

James 1:17