The alarm rang at 4am. My heart was saying "Let's get this party started!" but my body was saying "Lady, you are not serious!" Thankfully my heart won and we had ourselves a party, AKA, Yard sale.
To tell the story of EVERYTHING God did on Sat, July 14th would take a very long time but here are some highlights....
* Over 30 families donated items to be sold for our Fundraiser. We were still collecting things the day of the Yard sale. We are SO grateful for the generosity of so many. It was truly overwhelming. We had a lady with has 2 adopted Children, who saw our post on Craigslist, come and bring Children's clothes to donate to our yard sale. A total stranger. Unbelievable!
* 2 Moms and their children offered to do a Lemonade stand for us. But lemonade was not enough for this crew..."Go BIG or Go Home!" So we had bottled water, coffee and 6 ladies made baked goodies and individually wrapped them. It was awesome, YUMMY and SO fun!
* We priced and sorted almost every item that came to us. Everything from Elliptical machines, TVs, furniture, clothes, kitchen items, jewelry and SO much more! Thank you to all who helped with pricing and sorting! Thank you to all who helped load and unload, pick up and deliver. There are SO many more people to thank and I hope to do each properly!
* We are SO thankful to our friends who came to our Yard sale to shop!! Some got some wonderful deals and others didn't find anything they "needed" and still gave a donation. We are grateful for you and your support!
* As I prayed about the Yard sale, I asked God for a specific amount. This number would be the amount due of our next step in the Adoption process. It was a lofty GOD type number. I was not even sure we had enough items to equal the "God" amount. I only told one other person my number and her response was "You need to be happy if you make $800". This was lower than my "God" amount and I was so defeated.
But ya know what God did? We made DOUBLE my "LOFTY, GOD" amount!!! Praise God!! He provided the money for the next step in our Adoption process and the beginnings of the following amount we will need!
* The Yard sale was from 7am-noon. Our first customer came at 5:30am. Our last came at 2:00. The rain came at 1:30 and we scrambled to get everything under the canopy or in the garage. We sent some things to the Rescue Mission and kept others for our next Adoption Fund Yard sale in the Fall. Stay tuned....
* Mid morning a man, who grew up in the house we are living in, came to our Yard Sale. He asked to walk through the house. Jay led him in and it was neat to hear his stories.
* Today when we came home from Church, there was a truck parked in front of our house. As I pulled in the driveway, a young man was walking to our front door. I recognized him as a guy who was interested in buying the futon at the Yard Sale. He asked if it was still available and it was. As we were helping him carry it to his truck, we asked him a few questions. Came to find out, he was adopted from India. Grew up in Roanoke. Was mentored through 'Big Brother' in High school by a good friend of ours. Just graduated from college and considers himself Agnostic now. Jay had a wonderful conversation with him and plans to connect him and his 'Big Brother' again. God's timing is PERFECT! Just as the sermon today spoke to us.....God is always faithful. Even if you walk away from Him. He is still faithful to you! WHEW! What a great Word!
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If I have not communicated how grateful we are and how overwhelmed by the LOVE shown to us, please know it is my intention to make it clear. But most of all, we give the LORD all the glory. We praise Him for the ability, the energy and resources He has supplied. We praise Him for the family and friends we have that have unselfishly contributed time, items to sell, items to help us sell (hangers, tables, etc) and money. Bringing our Child home seems closer and closer by the day. Yesterday was one step closer to bringing Baby Dove home!
Thank you.
This was a fun post to read. How exciting! I'm happy for all of you and this step in your journey!
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