I would like to joyfully announce that God has placed on my heart to adopt a little 6-year-old girl from Juarez, Mexico, and give her permanency through a loving home.
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I’ve got some very exciting news!
On March 4th I picked up my keys to an adorable townhouse in Las Cruces. After over a year of searching for somewhere that is affordable, safe, and meets adoption guidelines, I was able to sign the lease! I am praising the Lord for His provision!
This now means I can officially send the commitment fee to my international adoption agency and fill out their initial paperwork. The next step is to reach out to the local New Mexico Agency to start the home study process but, before I can schedule it, the townhouse needs to become a home.
Several have asked how they can help or what I need. There is a lot that goes into making a house a home, but here are a few specific ways to help:
*This amazon wishlist has some ideas (you’ll notice a lot of pink because, for Hermanita, pink is life). They're simply ideas though, so don't feel restricted to these specific products.
https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/TFX7LFR03IKJ
*Donations of used items in good and gently used condition. If you no longer need it, I would love to give it a new home!
*Continued financial support through this fundraising page. The first check written for the commitment documents was $4,750. For full transparency, the next step will be approximately $4,800 for the home study, the I-800 filing with the government, and the fee for preparing the dossier. Along with those bigger fees, there will be other smaller miscellaneous fees as well. These are just the initial fees to start the paperwork.
It's so amazing seeing how God is providing!
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Little Hermanita seems to have developed a love of organizing and sorting. She has sorted through her dresser drawers and reorganized her clothes and she has gone through her toy bucket and removed all trash and things that weren't hers. I find this fascinating as I don't ever voluntarily organize anything haha. Clean sure, go through paperwork and file it correctly, I got you! But organizing and sorting through things, not my favorite haha. Maybe we will make a great team! Or maybe she will teach me her organizing ways. Puzzle campaign is ongoing!
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Update #1
Hello Wonderful friends and family!
I just want to shoutout and say thank you to everyone who has helped kick off this campaign!
To keep it going and help give my little hermanita (means little sister in spanish. She calls me her sister) permanency, I want to start my first major fundraiser. “Adopting” a puzzle piece. She absolutely adores building puzzles. I custom-made a 500 piece puzzle with a photo of the two of us. When a piece is “adopted” your name will go on the back and each adopted puzzle piece will help make the puzzle whole and hopefully one day it can hang in her room in a double-sided frame.
$10 suggested donation a piece and you can adopt as many as you want!
Also, super exciting, a friend and ministry partner has promised to match donations up to $2,500!
There are several options for donating.
Tax-deductible donations can be made directly through this blog to go directly to the adoption fees or through Bgi.org/andrea. If you select Bgi and the drop-down adoption acct, that money is being specifically saved for the USA apartment.
You can also send directly to me through venmo or paypal.
Just leave a comment with the name or names, if multiple pieces, to go on the back of the piece(s).
You all are making this process possible!
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