Lasagna Fundraiser

Good morning everyone!!

We wanted to take the time to thank everyone who helped make our Lasagna fundraiser last night such an amazing success. We are so grateful for everyone who helped plan, decorate, cook, serve food, babysit kids, make flowers and everyone who attended. We especially want to thank Karen Williams who put together the entire event. Everything was beautiful.  We could not have asked for a better evening. 

For those who could not attend our dinner I want to share with you the nights events...we were blessed in so many ways.  We were very excited for the large turn out and everyone's positive response to our testimony, it truly was encouraging and heartwarming. Speaking of our testimony, I was so nervous but once I stood in front of everyone and began speaking it was like second nature... Trust me, that was strength from above because I could not have gotten through that (tear free) alone. Thank you Lord for that strength!!!! I also want to take the time to thank the teens not only for serving but also for your selfless generosity.  After everyone left for the evening and we were cleaning up, all of the teens approached us with a gift... They decided to donate the tips they received for their youth fund through the evening to our adoption. Nic and I literally had our wallets out to add to the teens tip jar when they walked over and gave to us, without hesitation, what they had earned for the evening. Because of their generosity we were able to add $106 to our total amount raised for the evening. I love that our church is helping to raise (along with their parents) children who care so much about others and their needs. We hope our children will grow up with the same beliefs and morals. We were literally blown away and beyond grateful. Thank you so much. In addition to the teens, we also had another youth from our church empty her piggy bank to donate to our adoption. Again we were so grateful and blown away by the selflessness of a little girl. Thank you again so much.  I may not have cried throughout my testimony but the generosity of these kids brought tears that I could not fight back. 

We are happy to share that through the generosity of the youth, friends, family and church family we raised $1605.23 last night. We have now raised a total of $11,486 thus far for our adoption. We are hoping to submit our dossier in October which means we will need to raise an additional $4093. We are so close and we know that GOD WILL PROVIDE!!!! He has already proven that he will by helping us raise over $11,000 in four months time!!! What an amazing testimony in itself. Money is nothing to our God who created the universe.  Our adoption will happen and our Amira, where ever she is today, will be a part of our family. In our hearts she already is our daughter and we love her. 

Thank you so much for your support and prayers as we continue along our journey in bringing our daughter home. :-)

God bless!!!