Adoption- our God is bigger
All I've read about fundraising(and trust me, I've done some serious research on fundraising! 6 kids, 2 adults and trying to raise $40,000 for our adoption? Yuh, I've done some serious research!) says that I should be simple and upfront about the costs we need for fundraising. So here goes:
Application: $300.00. This was to get the adoption agency to accept us and to begin our family folder of legal stuf
Home study and dossier: $2-4,350 + : This will approve us completely to adopt a child. Background checks, fingerprints, meeting with our social worker, any house safety issues that need to be dealt with, all our legal paperwork needs to be motorized, etc. a LOT is included. For more specifics please contact me.
Country adoption fee for China: $8-9,000: this is to cover the costs of caring for our baby. This also covers a mandatory donation to help care for the orphans that are still waiting for their new families. This donation is a true gift from God and I'm praying we can add even more to this donation if it is at all possible.
Travel and paperwork to and from China: $5,000-17,000: this covers everything to go get our baby and to get her back here, visas, hotel, transportation, etc. this is so wide because it depends on the country. We will know better when they approve us for China.
Authentication/translation fees: $175-2,850: this depends on country. All our paperwork has to be switched to Chinese within China.
Post-adoption fees: $2,500 and more: for the meetings after our baby is placed with us.
U.S. Agency fees: $6,000: all the fees to pay people's salaries and office supplies. This includes the offices here and in China.
Orphan care fees: $500-2,500: again, we are donating to the care of orphans who are waiting for their own families to adopt them. And again, this is a huge blessing to be able to do. This is a global fee, China's fee is just for their own orphans.
So there it is. I see these numbers and they can be very scary. But our God is bigger than this.
I won't lie. We need your help. It will take a village to get just one child who needs a family. I know we can do this. If you would like any more information I'm available to explain anything to you before you become a part of this amazing story. If there is a specific place you want your donation to go, that is where it will go and we can show you that. If you want to specifically donate to just the general orphan fund or specifically to China that would be awesome. If you want to help us with our tedious paperwork funds we would be amazingly grateful. We are grateful for a dollar or $100 dollars. We thank you for anything you can do.
Love you all and please, if you can not give to our adoption, pray for our family and for the children and people of China.
Application: $300.00. This was to get the adoption agency to accept us and to begin our family folder of legal stuf
Home study and dossier: $2-4,350 + : This will approve us completely to adopt a child. Background checks, fingerprints, meeting with our social worker, any house safety issues that need to be dealt with, all our legal paperwork needs to be motorized, etc. a LOT is included. For more specifics please contact me.
Country adoption fee for China: $8-9,000: this is to cover the costs of caring for our baby. This also covers a mandatory donation to help care for the orphans that are still waiting for their new families. This donation is a true gift from God and I'm praying we can add even more to this donation if it is at all possible.
Travel and paperwork to and from China: $5,000-17,000: this covers everything to go get our baby and to get her back here, visas, hotel, transportation, etc. this is so wide because it depends on the country. We will know better when they approve us for China.
Authentication/translation fees: $175-2,850: this depends on country. All our paperwork has to be switched to Chinese within China.
Post-adoption fees: $2,500 and more: for the meetings after our baby is placed with us.
U.S. Agency fees: $6,000: all the fees to pay people's salaries and office supplies. This includes the offices here and in China.
Orphan care fees: $500-2,500: again, we are donating to the care of orphans who are waiting for their own families to adopt them. And again, this is a huge blessing to be able to do. This is a global fee, China's fee is just for their own orphans.
So there it is. I see these numbers and they can be very scary. But our God is bigger than this.
I won't lie. We need your help. It will take a village to get just one child who needs a family. I know we can do this. If you would like any more information I'm available to explain anything to you before you become a part of this amazing story. If there is a specific place you want your donation to go, that is where it will go and we can show you that. If you want to specifically donate to just the general orphan fund or specifically to China that would be awesome. If you want to help us with our tedious paperwork funds we would be amazingly grateful. We are grateful for a dollar or $100 dollars. We thank you for anything you can do.
Love you all and please, if you can not give to our adoption, pray for our family and for the children and people of China.
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