We have BIG news!
We are adopting! It's so fun to be able to talk about as this has been in our hopes and prayers for many years and is finally happening.
We are over the moon and doing all that we can to prepare well to grow our family in the way that the Lord prepares. We have applied for a sibling group and that can range from 1-4 children. As part of this journey, we want to invite others to partner with us to help this dream come to fruition. You might be surprised to know that most international adoptions cost over $30,000. We are trusting the Lord to help this happen. After our homestudy is approved there are many scholarships and grants that we can apply for to help with our goals but until that point, we are estimating about $10,000 of expenses past our savings. We are hoping to relieve some of the financial stress so that we can be well prepared to welcome a child(ren) into our home.
We hope that you will feel invited into this process with us and understand that it takes a whole community to love and raise children well. To demonstrate this further, we will put the names of those people who donate on the back of a puzzle piece (surprise image) to display in our home and for our future children to know who all helped them join our family.
We are so incredibly blessed by our community’s generosity. God is so good and you are so kind. In just one short week, we are over 1/4 of the way to our goal.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
This week if you feel lead to share our story with those around you (work, Bible study, social media, etc.) we would be so grateful.
We hope our story can inspire others to trust God and his big plans that are always so much greater than anything we can dream up.
Have a wonderful week.
Hello friends and family!
Here is the first update to our puzzle! We can't wait for the image to be fully revealed to you and you can see what we have been praying.
Exciting news! We have a matching donor for the next $1000 given. Your gift will be doubled!
This amount would completely pay for our home study needs in January. If you feel lead to take time to pray and fast or to give towards this goal, we would be so grateful.
Love,
The Cooleys
Hello friends!
We are so incredibly excited to be making steps forward in this journey and so grateful to those of you who have already helped us with the upcoming expenses to bring our family together.
We can't wait for you to see the puzzle as it grows.
