Adoption in Expensive...
But It Is Not Ours Anyways.
We learned very early in our Christian walk that what we have belongs to the Lord and He is only allowing us to use it while we are here on earth, He is such a gracious God! When the Lord called us on this journey of adopting He also impressed on our hearts that He would provide for all our needs. Now that does not mean for us to just set around and expect Him to drop money from heaven although if He wanted to He could do that, after all he is GOD. It means that we need to be busy to help raise the close to $30,000 that it will cost to bring our son home from China.  When you look at that amount through wordly eyes it is easy to become discourage but me MUST keep our eyes on the Lords plan and get busy. Than means that we must work hard at fundraising, which has included:

Selling t-shirts

Selling bracelets

Kindle-Give-A-Way, which raised $495

Thirty-One Party Fundraising, which raised $180

working overtime

making Prayer Books and

Making Modesty Interactive Kits to sell

picking up every penny we seen on the ground (every penny adds up)

and who knows what we will come up with next!

I recenlty read this quote on fund raising and grant writing:

Silver and Gold have I not,
but such as I have, I give unto thee

Trust God to do something bigger
than you can ask or even imagine

He will empower you to raise more than any foundation would grant.



When you have an actual photo in your hand of a child that is going to join your family there becomes a great urgency....almost to the point of desperation to work quickly to get that precious child here with our family.

We have a beautiful tree hanging in our dining room and each time some helps in any way with our adoption we write their name on this tree.



We have learned that this adoption is much bigger than just a Dodge family thing...it has included:

family member

friends

Church members

the kids friends

co-workers

and

total strangers.

Each one sharing and supporting our journey to bring our son home!

Our current fundraising is a

Quilt-Gave-A-Way

the quilt was made by one of my mothers friend

and measures 80X88

$5 donation equals one entry

$10 donation equals 3 entries

please use the Chip-In in the side bar

thank you for sharing in our
incredible journey



Kindle Fire Fundraiser

A sweet family in our church graciously donated a Kindle Fire to be used as a fundraiser to help with our adoption fees.  August 3, 2012 was the drawing and the winner was:

Blanch Breeden

$495 dollars was raised!

 Congratulations Mrs Blanch and a big thank you to all who made a donation!



New photo of our little guy!