We had 80 auction items... and they were wonderful!! The Bake Sale items were amazing.. I think there were three tables covered with so many yummy options.
The Charlie's Angels jewelry was a big hit. The pasta and pizza dinner was delicious.
We were so blessed by all who were able to come to the party and by all who contributed in so many different ways.
It was a very fun event, the music by the Peecher family, Stacey Stevens and of course, my own family; Rod, Blaine, Celina and Jude, was so good. The whole event went so smoothe and it was alot of fun visiting with everyone.
I will be posting more pictures as soon as I get them in from all who took them that night.
We raised 10,000 dollars at this event which was way beyond what we even thought we would.
I keep thinking about the fishes and loaves story in the Bible when Jesus multiplied the few fishes and few loaves to feed the multitudes and there was even baskets left over. Wow!! We serve an awesome God, he is so Faithful and he is all about Adoption, he cares for the orphan, he is a Father to the Fatherless. God multiplied the money of the efforts that was put forth at this event.
I am learning so much about how he wants us to trust him in this area. Just a couple of weeks ago a co-worker at the salon gave me an index card that she thought was mine it had 2 scriptures written on it, the first one said, "MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY ALL MY NEEDS ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES AND GLORY IN CHRIST JESUS,( phillipians) and the other one said, "CAST ALL YOUR CARES ON HIM FOR HE CARES FOR YOU!!!"
This was not my card but I received it and said, "praise the Lord!!" Within 2 days of that we got a phone call from our agency that God had provided $5,500.oo for some of our agency fees, WOW!! I just cried because God is so amazing and he really does care.
Then, at this fund raiser, God multiplied the gifts that came in and the total was $10,000.
So, we are only 2,000 dollars away from our 24,000 dollar goal. Praise The Lord!!
Now I can focus on Charlie actually coming home. Which will be at the end of the summer I am guessing. We are in what I call step #2 of this process. Our information is now in Texas at the Federal Level, so we wait to get orders for our Federal Finger Printing then get those papers back and then....Step #3, we send our Dossier off to China and then we wait again to hear about when we get to travel to get Charlie!!!
So in the mean time we live a very full life. Home educating our children, working at the salon and spending time with our families and friends and now in the spring/summer months, working outside in the yard and gardens and creating things in our Artfulife studio.
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