I'm not sure what to do. Aside from the bake sale, none of our fundraising efforts have accomplished much of anything this time around....and God has provided thus far. I'm contemplating giving up all fundraising efforts. It makes me sad for some reason. Maybe because a part of me equates that with giving up but that's definitely NOT what I intend to do nor is it what I believe God wants us to do.
In all of adoptions (with the exception of our first when I did not know the Lord), we did not do a ton a fundraisers and God always provided. I think the problem with this time is I'm convinced all of our resources are tapped out but perhaps that's the problem. Perhaps my thinking is off. Our resources (which we didn't necessarily consider resources in those previous adoptions either) are tapped out but God's resources never are.
Likely after this weeks raffle I will not be doing anymore fundraisers. I will just need to solely abide in God through prayer for Him to provide. We really do need prayer right now. $9300 in 5-6 weeks seems overwhelming.
No, I don't take this as a sign that we aren't to adopt these girls, I know what the Lords called us to do and we will wait on Him.
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Back in January, we still needed $7,000+ to complete our adoption when God clearly spoke and told us to stop fundraising. Our fundraising had been going well, but God said, "Stop" and so we did. Within a few weeks we had been handed the money that we needed to cover our last set of fees and are still waiting on the last $1500 or so, before we can travel to pick up our boys. I know God is able and will supply the money when we need it. You can read more of our story: http://findingourlittleone.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-not-about-giant-part-one.html I'll be praying that God will provide as you turn the need back over to Him :) Blessings!
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning of our third adoption, someone I knew more as an aquaintance than as a friend gave us $26,000!! I never saw that coming! She has since become a VERY close friend of our family's. In our fourth adoption, we were blessed with $19,000 from a wonderful group of someones close to us.
DeleteEven for this adoption, while it has mostly been our own money, the day my heart sank because I realized we needed $3500 to commit to Alyssa and we didn't have it as far as I knew, I would have never imagined that just 3 months later we would have been able to come up with and put over $14,000 towards this adoption!
I know He is faithful, He's proved it again and again. I guess I just feel like I want to give people something for their money and not just expect something for nothing. But if I really look back on our previous adoptions it's really been about just trusting Him, not working my tail off to make things happen.
Deep breaths and lots of prayer!! Thank you so much for commenting and sharing!
Wow! Michelle, you have no reason to doubt. He'll show up, again :) Now, you've encouraged me! I love it when that happens!
DeletePraying! We're running into the same thing with all our fundraising efforts and aren't sure what to do as we can't see how God is going to provide the funds, though we trust He will.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you get a notiification if I reply to your comment but the above reply I wrote under Mandy's comment is for you too.
DeleteI feel like I should be a pro at this by now, but I guess not ;)
Thank you for sharing and commenting!
We have had the same challenge; God has been providing, but it's not been via fundraisers at all. We need approx $13,000 in 8 weeks. Daunting, but not impossible with God! Adding you and yours to my prayers.
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