In everything I did, I showed you
that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the
words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to
receive.'
Acts 20:35
I know everybody is asked to donate towards a ton of fundraisers each year, so I personally am being challenged by being in the position to ask people for money. I seriously hate it.
BUT....
Here we are. We are bringing home two gorgeous children from China next summer and need to raise around what my husband makes in a year. It's slightly overwhelming, but we are sure this is God's plan for these children to be a part of our family. And because of that, I'm asking YOU to help.
Frannie and Finn
Religion that God our Father
accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows
in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27
The neat thing about this fundraiser, is it allows everyone to give what they are able. $1? Great! That's one less dollar I have to ask for! $2? You just sacrificed your evening Pepsi for an orphan! $5 is a Starbucks coffee sacrificed. $20 for our family would be eating PBJ for dinner instead of Little Caesars. Others are able to give $50+ because they have the extra income or God's tugging on their heart.
Regardless, ANYTHING helps. Seriously. I've said this before, but if every one of our Facebook friends gave even just $1, we would have over $1000 and no one would be out more than $1!
The reason why I've launched this Puzzle Fundraiser is to help us get our dossier paperwork to China (there is a large fee to send it) and to give my biological children something to do and look forward to.
If 100 people would sponsor each puzzle piece, we would have $5000!
We have puzzle pieces labeled between $1 and $100. If you sponsor a piece, your name gets written on the back of the puzzle and you donate that amount toward our adoption (PayPal button at the top of the blog or tax deductible donations can be done at http://atwakids.org/. Just be sure to tell them it's for the Kelloggs!). The few who have donated so far named a part of the puzzle, and we told them the dollar amount because each piece is already labeled. You can donate with a friend or group as well!
We plan to frame this for Frannie and Finn, and it will be a special reminder of the many, many people who have helped them come home!
Of course, you can donate any amount...this is just for fun!
I know there is a general thought out there that "If you can't pay for an adoption, you shouldn't be adopting." Well, it's a lot different caring for and affording children on a day to day basis. But, coming up with an extra $45,000-50,000 in a year is hard for anyone to do. Even those families who make twice what we do, are doing fundraisers for their adoption because they live on their income. We have made several adjustments to our income to save money, like getting rid of cable and our house phone to name a few. As a family of 7 living on one income, we already live pretty frugally.
Then, there's God. And since He told us to do this knowing what income we have, we are trusting Him to move hearts to support two orphans to find a forever family.
And you'll be happy to know, even on our modest income, we ourselves have around $22,500 (including a $7000 grant) to put toward this adoption already! That was ALL God.
We thank everyone who steps forward to help us bring our babies home. And everyone who continues to pray for this process. And everyone who has supported our family this far. We have an amazing group of friends and church family!
And because we don't want to continue to ask the same people, please share this blog to your friends and family! We know there are so many others out there who would love to donate toward orphan adoption. And we will have more fundraisers coming!
Just post a comment below or email me at mommykellogg@hotmail.com to tell me what piece you want to sponsor!
Thank you!
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.
Psalm 68:5
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