Ohh, so close. It looks like we need another $214.55 to reach our New Year's fundraising goal. Come on guys, let's make it happen.
On the plus side, RR has met its goal and raised $1,000 for all of the children on the Christmas Angel Tree. Yeah!
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Only 2 days left in 2010! Can we raise $514.55?
Only two days left to contribute to the RR Angel Tree fundraiser! What are you waiting for?
Also, after the new year, RR will combine all of the funds raised for Martin--his original adoption grant, his Angel Tree funds, and the House Family Service Page--into a single amount on the FSP. That is good news for compulsives like me, who are constanting adding the numbers from those three pages together. LOL!
As of 9:44 am on Thursday, December 30, 2010, Martin's original grant fund is $2310. His Angel Tree fund is $1252, and the House Family's FSP is $3323.45. So, out of the approximately $30,000 estimated cost of adoption from Martin's country, we have raised $6,985.45! That is nearly 1/4 of the goal!
Also, after the new year, RR will combine all of the funds raised for Martin--his original adoption grant, his Angel Tree funds, and the House Family Service Page--into a single amount on the FSP. That is good news for compulsives like me, who are constanting adding the numbers from those three pages together. LOL!
As of 9:44 am on Thursday, December 30, 2010, Martin's original grant fund is $2310. His Angel Tree fund is $1252, and the House Family's FSP is $3323.45. So, out of the approximately $30,000 estimated cost of adoption from Martin's country, we have raised $6,985.45! That is nearly 1/4 of the goal!
Can we try to get all the way to that 1/4 mark? Can we try to raise Martin's grant funds to $7,500 by January 1, 2011? That is only another $514.55! 
Come on, you know you want to! It's for our boy!
Monday, December 27, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Anticipation
God of power and mercy,
open our hearts in welcome.
Remove the things that hinder us from receiving
Christ with joy.
This is from the opening prayer of the second Sunday of Advent, and has really spoken to my heart all through this season of anticipation.
So many children on the Reeces Rainbow site have had families commit to them, including Martin and Elizabeth. The hearts of so many have been opened in welcome.
My prayer this Advent is that God opens our hearts in welcome to Him, however He presents Himself to us, that He removes anything that hinders us from receiving Christ with joy, and that we may wait in joyful hope for the coming of our savior.
open our hearts in welcome.
Remove the things that hinder us from receiving
Christ with joy.
This is from the opening prayer of the second Sunday of Advent, and has really spoken to my heart all through this season of anticipation.
So many children on the Reeces Rainbow site have had families commit to them, including Martin and Elizabeth. The hearts of so many have been opened in welcome.
My prayer this Advent is that God opens our hearts in welcome to Him, however He presents Himself to us, that He removes anything that hinders us from receiving Christ with joy, and that we may wait in joyful hope for the coming of our savior.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Angel Tree Fundraiser is almost over!
Okay, guys. Only 11 more days left in the RR Christmas Angel Tree Fundraiser. Martin's Angel Tree fund is up to $1,252. Yah! But, it is still $748 short of the $2,000 goal I set for us (okay, for me, but since I don't have $2,000 I had to include you all in my calculation) ;-)
So what do you say? Can we get it done? Checks made out to Reece's Rainbow, memo lines marked "For Martin (2H)" and mailed to:
Reece's Rainbow
PO Box 4024
Gaithersburg, MD 20885
Or hop on over to the RR website and scroll down to Martin's beautiful face to make an on-line donation.
Of course, if you happen to fall in love with one of the other faces you have to scroll past to get down to Martin, and want to make a donation to another child's grant fund too...well, no one would blame you for that either.
Thanks. Peace. Out.
So what do you say? Can we get it done? Checks made out to Reece's Rainbow, memo lines marked "For Martin (2H)" and mailed to:
Reece's Rainbow
PO Box 4024
Gaithersburg, MD 20885
Or hop on over to the RR website and scroll down to Martin's beautiful face to make an on-line donation.
Of course, if you happen to fall in love with one of the other faces you have to scroll past to get down to Martin, and want to make a donation to another child's grant fund too...well, no one would blame you for that either.
Thanks. Peace. Out.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Christmas is coming
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat.
Please put a penny in the old man's hat.
If you haven't got a penny, a ha' penny will do.
If you haven't got a ha' penny then God bless you.
I learned this song as a "round" sometime in my childhood, and it has been coming into my head a lot as we move through Advent toward Christmas.
I love that it expresses anticipation, giving what you can no matter how small, and God's blessings.
It makes me think of all the people giving their pennies, ha' pennies and prayers to those in need, whether they be orphans living halfway around the world or someone in our own kitchen who needs an extra bit of patience at the end of a long day.
Christmas is coming.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Friends of Martin
I feel blessed by so many friends who are contributing in whatever way they can to help Martin come home--friends I already knew, and new friends I may never meet (including Charlie and Melissa House who are working so hard to bring Martin home to their house!).
I have always tried to base my life on reason. I have seen where unbridled emotions can lead, and it is not pretty. It has always seemed to me that living a life driven by "feelings" without the tempering effect of rationality can ultimiately only lead to despair. It is one of the things I love about the Catholic Church, I mean what other church would issue an encyclical entitled "Faith and Reason"? :-)
Yet, here I am, advocating, fund raising, praying for a child I have never met. A child whose situation is not unique. A child whose need is great, certainly, any "reasonable" assessment of the facts of his existence bear that out, but a child who is just one of many in this world of great needs. And I am doing this because of a feeling, because of a burden placed on my heart for this child.
I suspect that some of you are supporting Martin for just the same reason. I think that makes you my friend. It makes all of us Friends of Martin.
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis
I have always tried to base my life on reason. I have seen where unbridled emotions can lead, and it is not pretty. It has always seemed to me that living a life driven by "feelings" without the tempering effect of rationality can ultimiately only lead to despair. It is one of the things I love about the Catholic Church, I mean what other church would issue an encyclical entitled "Faith and Reason"? :-)
Yet, here I am, advocating, fund raising, praying for a child I have never met. A child whose situation is not unique. A child whose need is great, certainly, any "reasonable" assessment of the facts of his existence bear that out, but a child who is just one of many in this world of great needs. And I am doing this because of a feeling, because of a burden placed on my heart for this child.
I suspect that some of you are supporting Martin for just the same reason. I think that makes you my friend. It makes all of us Friends of Martin.
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis
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