We had a call set up to happen at 11 am on Wednesday this week. The purpose of this call was for our coordinator to get to know us a little better by asking us a series of questions. She does this because she is the one that matches families with the children in the orphanage. During the conversation I mentioned how one of our biggest fears was to get the pictures and profiles of a child and have to say no because of lack of funds. She then proceeded to tell us that she would rather us be close to having all the money (for that blasted international fee that is) before she has this conversation. The reason is because the referral will happen very, VERY quickly and she wants to be sure that we can move forward as soon as the referral is given to us. Getting these orphans out of Haiti is urgent! Oh, and one more very important fact that we learned is that we will be getting two. TWO!!!!
That is the exciting part, the part that brings us so much joy. At the same time we are also saying, two. TWO?!?! How will we ever get the $28000 we need for them? By the way, if I haven't made this clear before I will say now that this is NOT an adoption agency fee, it's the fee required by the Haitian government. Hence the frustration. So what we learned is this. We won't be matched until we have the money. I could just scream with frustration over this. It's like someone is holding our children for ransom. You can have your kids as soon as you fork over the money. We are so broken hearted over this. We are so close yet $28000 away. Our coordinator said that her sibling groups almost never move out of the orphanage. They are waiting. Being older children they understand why they are in an orphanage and hope that they find their forever family soon.
So pray. We have a couple of grant apps out, one of which we've already been turned down for, for lack of funds. Ugh. Still waiting to hear from two others. We are going to be a part of another fundraiser as soon as we can get a video of our story put together, which is required by the people in charge. These grant places and fundraisers are a blessing but they are limited as well and do the best that they can to help.
There are two little souls that belong with us, but they can't get to us because of the money. We need prayer warriors to stand with us and go before the Lord and pray these kids home. Pray for our hearts as they are heavy tonight.
These are just a handful of the precious ones that live in the orphanage we are adopting from. They are sitting on boxes of donated dry mild powder which will aid in combatting malnutrition. Two of them could be ours.
Remember, you can help by clicking on the donate button to the right or clicking on the puzzle fundraiser link provided to see if you want to help that way.
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