Answered Prayers!!

A big THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our Adoption yard sale last weekend! Whether you donated items to sell, came to shop, or helped at the sale, we are so grateful for your contribution to help make the yard sale a success! After about a month of collecting and pricing items, the weekend of the sale finally came.

We started setting up on Friday around noon, and decided to put a yard sale sign outside the neighborhood just to see if we could sell anything while we were setting up. We ended up selling about $500 just on Friday! We set up until dark and prayed for no rain on Saturday.

If you were in town last weekend, you know that on Saturday, there was a torrential downpour! I cried :(  I felt angry, sad, hopeless, and overwhelmed. I just thought what's the point after all this hard work and now for it to be ruined by a monsoon! Our first customer came around 5:50 am...(sale didn't start until 7)...Despite the weather there was a steady flow of people with their umbrellas, rain jackets, and flashlights. People were actually shopping and buying stuff in the rain. We did our best to keep things covered, but that didn't stop people at all. I was in disbelief. I was thinking "these are crazy yard sale people!"


My spirit was lifted as God comforted me by the fact that He promises to remain faithful and provide. I was so encouraged by so many familiar and unfamiliar faces coming to support us. I was comforted by seeing how God was still raising the money despite my plans, the thunderstorm, and my doubts.

Since it was so wet on Saturday, we were not able to put out a lot of our items, so we made a last minute decision to have another sale on Sunday. So we made new signs and had a last minute advertisement on Facebook and Craigslist and tried to sell as much as we could Sunday.  Praise God we made a total of $4000 from our Adoption Yardsale Fundraiser!! 

Busy Fall Happenings!

Wow! I cannot believe it is already October! I love that the leaves are changing colors, the air is a little cooler, and pumpkin everything abounds!

A lot has happened in the last 2 1/2 weeks! We have completed our interviews and our caseworker has written our Home study. She will send off our paperwork to her supervisor who will give the final stamp of approval. It could take up to a month to process and then we should hear something back.

Next Saturday, October 10, we will be having a Mega Yard Sale to help raise funds for the adoption. We are so grateful for the OVER 50 family & friends who have sacrificially donated items (you can see how full Michael's parents' garage is) and time to make this fundraiser possible. See more details about the sale here. Hope to see many of you there!

Below are a few other ways we are raising funds. We still have our Adopt Together Fundraising page. It is much like a Go Fund Me page, except this one is a non-profit and you can get a tax deduction for any donation. Secondly, we set up an Amazon Affiliates store. So if any of you love shopping on Amazon, click the icon below and bookmark that page. When you buy from our page, a few cents from every transaction will go toward our adoption. Lastly, our friend, Mo Parks, is a talented photographer and is going to donate a percentage of her proceeds to our adoption fund from those who book any type of photography session and mention that you were referred by the Inghams! Check out her work and book your photo session with her here: 

  Adopt Together: Ingham Family           Amazon Adoption Page               Mo Parks Photography

        

         

We have been learning so much about adoption as we have been on our own journey to adopt.  Here is another statistic about adoption. Pray for the over 150 million orphans in the world to find homes to call their own.