Dear Friends and Family
Let me start off by thanking you all for your love and support over the last few weeks. The encouragement and generosity that has been poured out in us has been overwhelming and life changing. Julie and I have had a chance to see tangibly how much we are cared for.
That being said, we have reached a crisis point in our adoption efforts. The agency is requiring us to pay the remainder of our fees in order to move forward with the adopting Abigail and Autumn. The money needs to be sent this week according to an e-mail we received today.
This is compounded by an issue we have run into with Reese’s Rainbow, the non-profit charity we have been using to raise money. To ensure that donators are not being defrauded, they refuse to release any funds until a travel date is determined to get the children. That’s a good policy and probably necessary. Unfortunately, while we could use the money toward flights and in country expenses, we need it initially for payment of adoption fees.
With that money on hold, our number to get the girls home is $6500.
At this point, I’m not sure what is going to happen. We are trying to muster our faith and believe that God will do a miracle but, in complete honesty, we are struggling. We made a crucial error encouraging people to donate to a site that will be helpful in the future but is a hindrance now. We have physically and emotionally exhausted ourselves in this process and we are still ridiculously short. To say that we are broken this evening is an understatement.
So I’m asking once again for prayer and, if you are able, donations directly to us for our girls. We are desperately crying out to Jesus for our Christmas miracle. He is still able and we are still hanging on, if barely.
I imagine the worst thing to happen would be to “almost” save a life. I hope that’s not our story. Please pray that it isn’t.
Aaron and Julie
