I want to introduce you to my friends. We all go to church together. We all have a heart for the orphan. We all represent different aspects of adoption. One family is a foster family. One adopted domestically. One adopted internationally. God placed our three families together on the same journey and I suspect our lives will never be the same.
I told you what happened with our phone call in June(see post here), but I haven't had a chance to tell you what has happened since then. On July 11th I joyfully dropped all three of my kids off at Vacation Bible School and joined my friend Cindy at the coffee shop down the street. I quickly pulled out my I-Pod to check and see if I had received any new mail from our coordinator in Taiwan. I found an email from my friend Denice saying that a baby girl was born in Taiwan and that they were looking for a family for her. My friend's eyes got huge with wonder. You see, they have been in the process of trying to adopt domestically again, and had not found their child yet. Well, you can figure out the rest of the story. Not only were we going to Taiwan, now they are too:O) Pretty cool and exciting to be doing this with precious friends.
Soon, we head back to the church because I have the privilege of being the closer for VBS. I start talking to our other friends who have been on the foster waiting list for a year. I shared with them the need for some other children that are in this baby home, and their hearts start churning. At lunch that afternoon, I showed them what the process looked like and encouraged them to pray about it. Little did I know that the Lord had already been working on my friend Kristin's heart to consider international adoption too. That day, on the way home, she and and Toby talked and both agreed that if this is what God wanted, then they were game.
So here we are. Three families. All endeavoring to follow God's lead to adopt a child from Taiwan. I don't think it is coincidence that we are walking this road together. As a matter of fact, I don't believe in that. God orchestrates everything, especially when it comes to His precious treasures. We have all come together in prayer and are combining our fundraising efforts. We are calling our group efforts, Three for Three. Three children for Three families. Of course, this probably isn't the end of our stories. There are more orphans in need of families around the world, just sayin'. ;o) Our only desire is to walk in obedience to God's calling for each of our families to adopt. We can't wait to introduce our children to you! Of course that will have to wait until we are through the courts and they are legally ours.
We started our fundraising efforts this past weekend with a beautiful set of Adirondack chairs that Warren built. We are selling tickets for $20 a piece and they will be raffled off on Aug 21st in the afternoon. Next week we will begin our adoption T-Shirt blitz, and it will last two weeks. We also have a movie day planned at Shelton Cinemas for August 20th. We are going to see the movie "The Help". See our facebook page, ThreeforThree to reserve your tickets. Please let us know if you'd like to purchase tickets for the Adirondack chairs also. Visit our blog or our facebook page(there is a link to it in the right sidebar) to keep up to date on all of the exciting fundraisers we have planned. I'll make sure to keep you posted. If you would like to financially support us, there is a paypal button on our Three for Three blog. You can support our joint efforts, or if you’d like to donate to a specific family, you can contact us through our personal profile email links on the blog.
The only obstacle that has intimidated us has been finances. But our God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, and He sets the lonely in families. He is the Father to the Fatherless. We each know He has asked us to step out in faith and to trust Him in this. It's scary, but I know God is going to do this. Would you pray for us as we go forward. We seriously covet your prayers and realize that each person has a role in bringing our children home. Some of you will pray, some of you will help financially, and some of you will help serve with us in our fundraisers. All of us will be a part of the story we tell our children of how God set them in their forever family.
Please pray with us that others will be encouraged as they follow our journey, and perhaps inspired to step out in faith and adopt too:O)
With much love and rejoicing!!
Warren and Jenn
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