Where do I begin...

So most of you know that we've begun the addition on our house with the goal of adopting a deaf child. Ever since we began courting in 2009 Brice and I knew we wanted to adopt a deaf child one day. It wasn't until last summer working with Camp Summer Sign  (8 week deaf childrens camp I've been involved with for years) and in seeing so many adoptive families that God seemed to be lining things up for us to begin this journey. Brice and I prayed then began the research in contacting various adoption organizations and we had come to the conclusion that until our house was done we really couldn't move forward. We felt like this must be our first step of faith in the adoption process. Resigning ourselves to the fact that we must focus on our house, we haven't been focusing as much on the fundraising. This past Wednesday all that begin to change. God has worked in ways I couldn't begin to imagine and so now we need your help.

This past Wednesday we got a email from an agency that we'd contacted almost a year ago inquiring about a deaf child. They said they had gotten a call from the Dominican Republic and had a deaf toddler who needed a home and they remember that we were interested specifically in deafness and contacted us to see if we were interested. We briefly prayed and quickly replied yes we are definitely interested in a deaf child but you need to know that we don't meet several key requirements one of which is that our house is under construction and so we can't pass a home study. the other being that we haven't been married for 5 years it will only be four years as of May 22nd. After much prayer and deliberation we've decided that God has opened this door and we're going to walk through it as far as He takes us. We know we are called to adopt and rest assured I've checked and if God halts this then the money does transfer to another adoption, but we desperately need help, support, for you to host fundraisers for us! We will need roughly $50,000.00. This our homestudy, legal fees, our required 4 to 6 month stay in country and other misc costs. While that is our goal and a safe estimate. We need $10,000 to move fast and $2,500 to even begin!

We are holding to the fact that if this is the child God has for us then its going to happen! We ask for your prayers and support!  Please share our blog...pass it on!