Dear friends,
The past several weeks have been filled with blessing after blessing! We are so happy to announce today that we are LOWERING our financial goal from $15,000 to $10,000 and we may be able to save even more money!
The most expensive component of this adoption is now going to be our home study. This will run between $4,000 - $6,500 depending on the number of home visits that are done, and on how many classes we are required to attend. That leaves our expenses as follows:
Home study; Pre-Placement and Post-Placement - $6,500
Travel Expenses - $1,500
Lawyer Fees - $2,000
To date we have raised just over $4,550! That’s almost 50% to goal! How awesome! Our friends have been so generous, and God has been so very good. We have several garage sales upcoming across the nation from some great friends, and we are still raising money just as fast as we can.
We were able to save money on our legal fees by going through Legal Shield. We have to wait a little while longer to get things rolling with them, but they will handle an uncontested private adoption like this for a ridiculously low fee. Our $2,000 price point there is high, but we have miscellaneous cost that will easily eat up that excess.
To those of you who have taken a special interest in supporting this adoption as a part of your regular benevolent giving, Thank you! I will tell you what I told God, I cannot promise that this child will grow up and love the Lord, but I can promise to show this child that God is real in our lives, that God is always good, and that he is the best friend anyone could ask for. Thanks for being such an intricate part of this young life!
