A Sweet Stranger

Today I received a letter in the mail from a sweet stranger I met at our garage sale. Garage sale, in October?? Yes! This past very cold Friday and Sat morning we had a garage sale. My precious daughter, who loves to dream up ideas, talked her crazy mama into having a garage sale. It’s not like I didn’t have anything to do we were just in the middle of our Chinese dinner fundraiser that weekend and starting our new coffee fundraiser. So we had a garage sale. Sarah and Pierson had cupcakes and coco for Cargan to sell. It was too sweet.

What does this all have to do with a letter in the mail? Well this sweet woman came to our yard sale and was so excited to see we were adopting. She mentioned that she wished she had her checkbook because she wanted to make a donation in memory of her daughter. She asked for our address and left. Today we received a precious check from that woman.
 God is amazing!!!!!!! It is so humbling to watch as he brings complete strangers in our lives that have given so generously from their hearts. It is exciting to watch who He calls to help bring our precious boy home.

There are a few things we still would love to sell!! Click the for sale tab under our family picture to see all we have for sale. Let me know if you are interested because we are cleaning out!

Coffee for Cargan Fundraiser

HELP COFFEE!!

Ok all you COFFEE LOVERS I need your help!!  A dear friend, Melissa is graciously organizing a Coffee for Cargan Fundraiser through Twin Valley COFFEE. It is a family owned business where they freshly roast all types of coffee. I have heard it is GOOD! We are looking for 100 people to sell 10 bags of coffee. If you sell 20 bags I will donate a FREE bag of coffee to you as a thank you! Orders will be taken until November 14th and deliveries will be the first week of December in time for the holidays. Start making that gift list. :)   If you would like to help sell coffee or buy coffee please let me know and I can get the appropriate information to you. We are really praying we can sell 1,000 bags which would raise $3,000! We can’t do this alone please think COFFEE and all those you know who love it! Please pass this on to anyone you know who would want to help bring Cargan home.

THANK YOU!!!!

Daphne and family

pirate67@hometownu.com 

please put coffee in the subject

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Twin Valley COFFEE offers the following flavors either whole bean or ground:

Nicaragua Diego $10

*Costa Rica $10

Brazil $10

Ethiopia Yergacheffe $11

Peru Fair Trade Organic $10

Kenya AA $12

Breakfast Blend $10

*Jamaican Me Crazy $10

*Scottish Grogg $10

*Maple Walnut $10

*Pumpkin Spice $10

*- available in decaf
-bags of coffee are 12oz.

If you would like to order please email me your order at pirate67@hometownu.com (please put in the subject: coffee order) Checks can be made out to Twin Valley COFFEE

Thank You

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Chinese Dinner Fundraiser. We enjoyed seeing everyone and enjoyed a good meal. We had 36 adults and 10 children attend. It was a real blessing to us to have you all come and help us in this long journey. Thank you! We really appreciate all your support!!!

Praise and Prayer

Praise!

Praise for all the support that has been given to bring Cargan home. We are almost 1/3 of the way there! Thank you to everyone who has given special gifts, participated in fundraisers and sponsored puzzle pieces! We are so humbled and thankful!

Praise: We have gotten our notice to go for our appointment in two weeks to get our fingerprinting done with Homeland Security.

Once we get the approval from this we scan and send it to our agency in AL. and they then get all the many signatures (takes 3 weeks) on all the papers and it will then be sent to China! We will then begin the last long 6 month wait until travel.

Prayer:

Please pray as I will be sending our packet of all the original documents we have been collecting for several weeks. Pray it will arrive safely to our agency in Alabama.

Please also continue to pray for Cargan as he should have learned now that he has a family. Pray for God to be preparing his heart. Please also pray for us to receive updated information and photos as we have recently put in a request for this.

Thank you to all of you for all your prayers and support. It is greatly appreciated!!

Puzzle Update

             Here is how the puzzle is looking!!!!

225 Pieces Sponsored!!!!

only 525 more to go

It has been so exciting to see God work!

Some people have asked a few questions about the puzzle and I wanted to take time to clarify. Yes, this is an actual physical puzzle not a virtual puzzle.This will be an ongoing fundraiser until all the pieces are sponsored. I was asked about Paypal and they do take a small percentage for the convenience of sponsoring online. If you want the full amount to go towards the adoption, than the sponsorship can be made directly to us. We are writing on the back of each sponsored piece names and beautiful messages and Bible verses that each sponsor has requested. It will be such a treasure for Cargan to see how many people have been involved in bringing him home. Thank you to all those who have sponsored Cargan’s Puzzle we really appreciate it!

 Keep spreading the word.

PS> For all those Coffee lovers out there, keep an eye out there is a Coffee for Cargan fundraiser in the works. More details will be coming soon, so think of all those people you know who love coffee!!

Save the Date Oct 12 and 13th

GREAT WALL CHINESE BUFFET

ADOPTION FUNDRAISER

Help bring him home!

 

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

October 12^th, 2012 & October 13^th, 2012

                           5pm-9 pm

Have a great Chinese dinner and raise money for our adoption fund at:

The Great Wall Chinese Buffet located in the Weis Market shopping center in Kutztown

For each person eating in your party, The Great Wall will donate

$1.00  for adults and $.50 for children to help bring their little boy home from China.

               PLEASE BRING A SLIP ALONG WITH YOU.

                       You can email me if you need one.