Growing Family, Growing Faith — Fundraising for Adoption

Growing Family, Growing Faith — Fundraising for Adoption

Winners of the Christmas Giveaway

CONGRATULATIONS  to the winners of the Christmas giveaway!

Molly Ondrey is the winner of the Kuerig K75 

and

Michelle Osborne is the winner of the LeapPad Ultra.

Both of these women are a part of our church family, for which we are so thankful.

A big thank you goes to everyone that supported this fundraiser and helped make it a success. We also want to thank everyone that is praying for our adoption.

                                                                                      

                                                                                   LORI

Christmas Giveaway Ends Tonight

The Christmas Giveaway ends tonight. If interested in entering for one of the giveaways, please submit donations tonight by midnight.   A $10 donation = 1 entry and $25 = 3 entries. The drawing will be held tomorrow morning. The winners will then be announced on the blog and notified by phone or email.

Our goal for this fundraiser is $1,000 above the cost of the items; so far we are at $710. Please consider helping us reach this goal.

On another note,  the eight documents that were rejected by the Sec. of State's office for certification were resubmitted last Thursday. They were all accepted this time! I will be sending eleven documents to the Chinese Consulate this week for authentication. These documents are a big part of our dossier that will be going to China. 

Our social worker interviewed Adrian this morning for the home study. We originally thought this would be done by email, but China requires in-person interviews. Adrian is only home for the holidays, so he couldn't get this done at the same time as the rest of the family. We are expecting to have our home study submitted very soon! 

                                                                                                  LORI

Where Are We Right Now?

As far as we know, we have everything completed for our home study. We are waiting to hear back from our social worker on that. All documents for the dossier, except the home study and USCIS approval, are done, but still need certification by the Sec. of State’s office and then authenticated by the Chinese Consulate.

Adoption is full of ups and downs.  We had our first bump in the road this week when Brent took ten documents to the Sec. of State’s office for certification/apostille. Eight out of the ten documents needed certification, and they were all rejected because of wrong wording. The same wording was used on all of Mia’s documents, but apparently IL has since made changes concerning notaries. We are trying to get these all corrected today, and we will try to get them certified again next week. Please keep our adoption in your prayers. Specifically pray for our waiting child in China that he/she is getting enough to eat and is being kept warm this winter.

                                                                                      LORI