Exciting Adoption News! We are thrilled to share that we received a matching grant from Hand in Hand Christian Adoption, Inc and have the month of December to raise funds that will be matched dollar for dollar to help bring our daughter home!!! Many of you have expressed an interest and a willingness to help and here is your chance. Below is more information in the form of a letter we will be sending out to some family and friends. Thank you in advance and every size donation helps & gets doubled through December 31st!!!
Dear Family and Friends,
As many of you may have already heard we feel that God has
called us on a new journey to provide a
“forever” family to a child through the process of adoption. We have started down this path of adoption
and are excited to bring Alia Joy into our home within the next six months (prayerfully this Spring). We have been led to pursue Alia Joy, an orphan from China, and are now waiting for
God’s timing of going to get her.
This road to adoption is full of many joys and challenges,
the greatest joy being the inclusion of a child into our family and while you
can’t put a price on such a joy, with adoption unfortunately there is a price. The
costs of adoption include the expense of a home study, adoption agency, international
fees, travel expenses, etc., With this
adoption in particular we are looking at many future medical expenses for hand/arm
surgeries, back surgeries and whatever else Alia Joy may need for the best
future possible. As many of you have
loved on us throughout our lives and the short lives of our other children,
Sophia and Lydia, we know you are wanting to love on our newest daughter, Alia,
as well. This brings us to why we are
sending this letter.
We were recently
awarded a matching funds grant to help with the expenses of our adoption
through Hand in Hand Christian Adoption, Inc. a non-profit private operating
foundation. Hand in Hand will match any
funds that are donated through our friends and family for the expenses of our
adoption. All funds received through our
friends and family will be matched dollar for dollar by Hand in Hand up to our
awarded grant amount, $5,000. All
donations are tax-deductible.
You can find out more
about Hand in Hand through their website at www.handinhandadopt.org. If you have
further questions about the Hand in Hand matching grant program please feel
free to give us a call at 270-307-7172 or email us at jonathan.l.carl@gmail.com. You may also contact Hand in Hand Christian
Adoption, Inc. with any questions you may have.
They can be reached at 913-248-5015 or by e-mail at handinhandadopt@gmail.com.
Please
send all donations made payable to “Hand in Hand Christian Adoption” postmarked
by December 31, 2013 to: (for tax purposes please include our name on the
outside of the envelope only…do not put our name on the check itself)
Hand in Hand Christian Adoption, Inc.
Jonathan and Brittney Carl
18318 Mimosa Court
Gardner, KS 66030
Thank you for your prayerful consideration in
helping Alia Joy come home to her “forever” family. More than your gifts, we appreciate your
heartfelt prayers to Christ that Alia will be with us in His perfect timing and
that she will come to know, love, trust, & follow Jesus with all of her
heart, soul, mind, & strength!
Walking Hand in Hand,
Jonathan, Brittney, Sophia, Lydia, & Alia Carl
jonathan.l.carl@gmail.com
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