Funding Update

Oh my goodness did we have a GREAT week last week - probably the best week since we started this adoption journey!!

To recap:
2/9 - Submitted our LOI (letter of intent requesting we be allowed to adopt a specific child)
2/10 - received PA (our approval to adopt our daughter)!  Lila is ours!
2/12 - received a grant from JSC Foundation!
2/13 - received a matching grant from Lifesong!

We are so thrilled to be nearing the end of our adventure!  If the averages hold out we are looking at potentially traveling to China to bring home our girl at the end of May or early June!  WOW! Can you believe we're that close? I'm looking forward to Spring like never before this year!

At the beginning of this process I told you that the total cost would be around $33,000! It's a HUGE amount and really we had no idea where it would come from.  We started out with a few thousand dollars from our home equity account and started praying.  We've sold bracelets (over 157 of them!!!), tshirts (we are selling them again HERE), banana & lemon bread, Emma has made hats (about 50 or so of them!!), and we received many donations with our 2015$ campaign.  People have been so generous and we are forever grateful for their love and support!

All of these efforts, together with the 3 grants we have received (thank you Show Hope, JSC Foundation and Lifesong) we have raised a little over $22,000! Amazing right?!

We are so so thankful!  That means we have about $11,000 left to raise, in about 15 weeks.  There are a lot of ways to break it down, 50 people donating $220, 100 people donating $110, 200 people donating $55, etc.  The bottom line is that we need $11,000.  Can you help? 

Our Lila - look at that sweet face!!!

If you'd like to contribute to our matching grant - every dollar you donate will be matched up to $1,500! - please go here:  LifeSong One-Time Donation.  Click on the drop box and choose Adoption Funding, then another drop box will appear, click on Family Specific.  Simply add our name, Jeff and Julie Masse and our Family Number 5054.  All donations over $50 will be tax deductible and again, matched dollar for dollar!!

We  humbly ask you to consider helping us in this final stretch! Maybe you cannot donate at this time, but you have a great idea for a fundraiser, or you'd like to do your own fundraiser and donate the proceeds??  Maybe you have some things to sell and you donate those sales?  We know that God is in complete control and will bring in the necessary funds!! THANK YOU for being a part of His plan!