This past Friday we held another fundraiser for our adoption. A good friend, Jimmy Mizell, came up from Livingston and cooked jambalaya and white beans. We sold lunch plates all over town and ended up serving over 400 plates. After we paid our expenses, we made just over $2000. I would like to thank everyone who helped prepare food and deliver plates. Also, a huge thanks to all those that bought plates and to those who gave donations. Following the jambalaya fundraiser, Heather and I did some calculations. It appears that we have raised all the money that we need for travel.

I cannot begin to describe to you how the Lord has blessed our family over the past several months. Heather and I simply obeyed the Lord when He called us to adopt. When we began the process we did not have any money set aside for adoption and had very little in our savings that could be used for adoption. We knew that the cost of adoption was great and by our best estimates the final price tag to complete the adoption of Eli would be around $30,000. In the past four months, God has provided somewhere close to $25,000. AMAZING!!!

As we thought back over the past few months, we couldn't even begin to tell you where all that money came from. It seemed as if God just multiplied all we had been given. God has taught our family so much over the past few months. We have learned to trust Him even when there doesn't seem to be a way. As long as you are obedient to His call, He will provide.

From the very beginning of our adoption journey, the Lord has impressed on me that this adoption is not really about a little boy in Taiwan with Down's Syndrome and it is not really about a family living in rural Louisiana....this adoption is about God. To God be the glory!