December 3, 2012
What an amazing work God is doing! We recently posted our last fundraiser on Facebook and had an enormous amount of support. Thank you to everyone who felt led to give! With the amount raised we have been able to update our homestudy and increase the amount for our in-country fee. We are on the homestretch and it's very exciting to see it finally moving faster. We're praying to receive a referral by Christmas or to at least be placed on the waiting list. We'll let you know if this is what He wants too! :)
Thank you all again for your support and encouragement! We just need to keep reminding ourselves that the process will go in the speed God knows best for our family, son included.
Posted by Bethany Whitaker.
September 24, 2012
We had a wonderful summer working on our dossier as much as we could. It's been a long process waiting on the money to come in, but we are still trusting that God's timing is perfect. We are getting closer and closer and hoping to raise the last (and biggest) amount of money quickly so we can finalize this and bring him home! He has most likely been born since we are hoping to get a 2-3 year old, so we are praying for health and safety as he is over there waiting. We are praying for his c...
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March 29, 2012
It's spring here in Charlotte and beautiful! We went on our first family vacation last week! We had such a wonderful time and can't wait until we can have another with the five of us. We are hoping to have our dossier complete with a referral in the next few months. We are all really looking forward to knowing who our boy will be and knowing how to specifically pray for him each day. The girls are getting very anxious (Cady cries often for him) and just don't understand why it is going s...
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December 10, 2011
We have received two grants for the adoption so far. Show Hope (founded by Stephen Curtis Chapman) has given us $4,000. We also received a matching grant from Hand in Hand of $2,500. We sent out letters to friends and family and have had such generosity shown already. We are close to paying for the agency fee and will then start our Dossier, once that is complete we will get our referral! Thanks for the continued prayers!
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August 31, 2011
We are still plugging away with the fundraising. Today they reviewed our application for the Show Hope grant. We hope to hear something soon. We are also going to apply for Hand in Hand which will double our donations. We will be attending the annual Latta Plantation Craft Fair where I will be selling my jewelry and some puppets that the girls made. We will also be having our neighborhood yard sale on Oct 1st.
Ethiopia has closed 90% of their international adoptions so the process has s...
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February 14, 2011
It has been one year exactly since our decision to adopt. We knew it would be a long process, but it has been very exciting too! We had another fundraiser on Sat night. Amy hosted a jewelry party for me and I sold about $130 in my jewelry. It was very successful and I hope to do more in the coming months. Check out the
site to help support us and receive some original pieces at the same time.
We have completed our homestudy and have now been officially accepted with Celebrate Children I...
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November 8, 2010
We have had a couple meetings with our social worker so far. She is very nice and easy to talk to. One more where she will get to talk to the girls and tour the house. We are in the middle of the paperwork now and making copies of... well our life. :) It has been a great process so far.
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September 20, 2010
We've officially begun the process! Enough money has been raised to apply for the home study through Nathanson. We are very excited and anxious about beginning. This process will most likely take about 4 months, so we will keep everyone updated. We will be receiving our new blessing from Ethiopia, age/gender has not been decided yet. Thanks for your prayers and support!
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Posted by Bethany Whitaker.
July 14, 2010
"Every good and perfect gift
is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who
does not change like shifting shadows." James 1:17 (NIV)
I read a devotional this morning and it reminded me that our baby is a gift from God and He will work out the details in His time, no sooner and no later than He thinks best. The phrase "His perfect time" means more to me now than it ever has before. He knows when we will be ready and allowing Him to take control is the only way to ass...
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June 14, 2010
We had our first fundraiser on Saturday, a non-stop 7 hour yard sale! I was so encouraged by the donations from everyone in our church/school family which made it into a huge sale that people couldn't resist. We had customers the entire time. Thank you to everyone who helped/donated. A special thanks to the Nickerson's who allowed us to clutter their home for a few days and helped with it all. Thanks to the kids for doing the bake sale and donating things as well. You are a selfless fam...
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