Wow! We have been so blessed!! I just have to share all that God has been doing through you guys, through your support, kindness and donations!
We received the donation from The Little Pearl Foundation! Thank you SO much, Maureen! What an impact you have had on our family and one little boy’s life 🙂 We are so grateful to you and your precious Olivia who inspired you to reach out to help other families. May your foundation be blessed in the future to make an impact on the lives of many little ones who wait for a family to call their own! You are such an inspiration to me!
We just wrote out a check to Lifeline, our agency, for $3344.46! That’s how much we raised from the giveaway! Holy moly, we are STILL amazed at this incredible total!! So many have reached out and supported us in our efforts to bring Shepherd home, what a huge blessing it has been to us to witness, and we can’t wait to share with Shepherd how loved he was even before he officially joined our family!
There was another benefactor who has helped our fundraising efforts in a wonderful way. The family wanted to remain anonymous, but I know she follows our blog, so I wanted to send out a huge, “THANK YOU!!” to M. and her beautiful family. Thank you so much for blessing us and little Shepherd!!
So that leaves us way ahead of where we were just a month ago! Truly amazing to see how God is at work!! Chris and I have been crunching the numbers, trying to get a handle on the exact total amount we’ll have to raise in order to bring Shepherd home and as of now, we are less than $3500 short of the total amount we’ll need! Praise God!!
Stay tuned, I’ll be posting about a brand new giveaway soon… 🙂
Stefanie, that’s incredible!!! I know everyone who has been a part of bringing Shepherd home feels privileged and blessed to be a part of his homecoming!! I’m so glad that you are SO close to having everything you need for your fundraising goal. I have no doubt that collectively we can continue to be a part of your adoption – no huge burden on one person, but a huge blessing to you family when all of us do a little. 🙂 We love you and we love Shepherd!!
Hugs,
Rebecca
Praising God! Amazing how he works behind the scenes when it is done for the good of His children and for His glory!
God is so good!
That is simply awesome Stef, I am so happy for you guys, and for little Shepard 🙂
FANTASTIC!!! An amazing blessing for an amazing family!!
How wonderful, Stefanie! It is so great to see God at work blessing your family!
i just want you to know that you have inspired me! I have always wanted a big family but didn’t think we could do it-we are adopting our first child age 6 (makes kiddo number 4)soon and would love to do it again! thanks for you storys!
Yes! Another giveaway! I’m in… for Shepherd ;)…
That is Awesome news! Thanks for sharing what God is doing!
Keisha
Keisha! I need your email, I wanted to get in touch about you guys coming this way!!
That is so amazing! God is so good!!
What great news. I bet it felt soooo good to write that check!!!
Wow… did you even think when you started this whole “kinda like a raffle” thingy that you would have gotten as far as you have? And able to “kinda lika” raffle off another thing? WOW! What a testimony to taking a leap of faith when called.
super Cool!
🙂
Amie
You truly have a lot to be grateful for. Especially knowing that God is in control of all things.
That is so awesome!!!! God is so good and you and your family are just the most amazing people ever!
You inspire me!