Entries from November 2008

November 18, 2008

The Gospel in Action

What motivates you?  What stirs you up on the inside?  What makes you passionate and desirous to do good?  Surely its not our own good will!  For far to often I’m tempted towards self-preservation and thinking of only what is good for myself.  How to obtain what I need, what I want, what I think will [...]

November 18, 2008

A story to make you cry!

We are eagerly counting down the days until we can travel to Ethiopia to pick up our two beautiful kiddos!  Hopefully very soon!  In the meantime you should head over to the VanWetten Family blog at www.yellowblackandwhite.blogspot.com and read the post titled “To The Rescue”  A beautiful true-life fairy tale.  You can read the past [...]

November 14, 2008

Traveling Families

Here’s the websites of the families heading to Ethiopia this next week.  I’m sure they’d love your prayers and comments of encouragement as they travel to meet their kiddos for the first time!
Juvinall Family – http://talk.bearla.com/
Armstrong Family – http://armstrongs2ethiopia.blogspot.com/
Gamble Family – http://bjgamble.blogspot.com/
Pridemore Family – http://www.pridemore5.blogspot.com/
VanWetten Family - http://yellowblackandwhite.blogspot.com/

November 12, 2008

Funding Our Adoption Update

We are so close!!!!  I just updated our funding page and as you can see we are close to having everything paid for!  We will need to purchase our plane tickets and pay our travel fees around the middle of December.  So we have about 5-6 weeks to raise the remaining $8000.00.  We are willing to [...]

November 10, 2008

Together for adoption

Joshua and I had the incredible priveledge to travel to South Carolina and attend the first ever Together for Adoption Conference.  It was a great weekend to enjoy some excellent teaching about our vertical adoption by our heavnely Father, and the biblical call for horizontal adoption of children.  Shortly all the messages from the conference will [...]

November 4, 2008

Valuable Toys, Books, and Games

Okay, please send all your readers this way.  And please if you ever read this blog leave a comment.  In the next two months before our kiddos arrive we are trying to come up with some great children’s toys, books, and games.  So what sticks out in your minds as great items to have around [...]

November 3, 2008

Blogs to Watch this week

There is a new group of families traveling to Ethiopia this week to pick up their kiddos.  If you’re interested you can follow their journeys at the following Links.
http://brittonadoptionjourney.blogspot.com/
http://thewait4you.blogspot.com/
http://laughners.blogspot.com/
http://www.nunezstory.blogspot.com/
http://isaacandkathee.blogspot.com/