As many of you all know, Mike, myself, and another couple from our Church (that has also adopted) started an adoption ministry about a year and a half ago. (Right before we brought Anne Marie home). We have had fund-raisers to raise money for our adoptions, organized a board for the ministry, as well as started getting information together for other families that are wanting to learn more about adoption, and even started a blog. We also applied for the Steven Curtis Chapman matching grant. His Shaohanna's Hope organization agreed to match funds to the first 100 Churches that started an adoption ministry in their Church and raised $2500. We were SO excited !! We've recently been working on helping others in our community via our adoption ministry.
Well, last week, we had our very 1st community meeting. We had a pot-luck dinner and started small by passing our flyer's to a few other churches in our community inviting anyone that has adopted or is considering adoption.
We had about 6 other couples there, and we were so excited to hear everyone stories, and be able to talk about what the future of our ministry might hold. There were families that have adopted from Guatemala, China, & Romania. There are also two other couples waiting to bring their children home from China and Ethiopia. We are hoping to help many more families with the cost as well as Christan support during their adoptions.
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I stumbled onto your blog and was very excited to read about your adoption and adoption ministry! I am so glad to hear you have applied to get the matching funds from SH as well.
I would love to hear more about what you all are doing! Let me know if there's any way I can be a resource as well. We work with many churches helping to administrate their adoption funds at no cost.
Blessings!
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