Cards for a Cause

One thing I love doing is reading through old greeting cards that I have received over the years.  We have a basket stored in our bedroom with all these cards and when I'm having a bum day I often pull out a card and just read the message someone sent us at one point in time.  God knows exactly which one I need to when I go to reach for one.  With that I made it a new years resolution to personally write and mail one card a week to someone in our life.  Everyone needs a card at some point, whether for an anniversary, birthday, loss, thank you or just because.

Our grant process is NOT going as planned and the amount of money needed is getting overwhelmingly scary.  We are leaving that all to God, but we also need help from our family, friends and church with prayer for this reason.  We are remaining obediant to Him and our heart is growing stronger and stronger to be advocates for His children, the orphans of the world.  God calls each of us to be part and care for the orphans.  If you/your family are not able to give them a forever family, there is nothing wrong with that!  There is SO SO SO much more you can do.  You can sponser a child through world vision or lifesong.  You can sponser a family with a monthly donation.  You can get involved with fundraisers (we love help, but wont ask you specifically), and YOU CAN PRAY!!  

We currently have the opportunity to make 43% off of every box of greeting cards we sell. They are $30 for a box and one box contains 30 cards.  

    WOW, $1.00 per card!!   

When Walmart sells them for at least $2.99 a card....

....and we'd be ever so grateful for helping us bring Baby Rice home!

We are trusting God in this. Satan wants to discourage us right now, because we dont know where our next $1500 and $1000 payment are coming from. We've already paid over $12,000, which is far more than we ever thought we could contribute from our family income in a year but God truly is blessing us!  We have a long ways to go yet and each day our heart aches more to complete our family through the adoption journey!  Our goal is 40 boxes and with God's goodness and the support from our family and friends we KNOW we can all conquer the devil's plan to discourage us together!  And how awesome if we could BLOW that goal out of the water!!?? 
If you have no need for greeting cards or just cant afford to buy a box right now, please consider helping us share this blog post.  Our phone call, Lord willing, could come any day now and we have to be ready!!