Blessed Beyond Measure

Chad and I experienced a blessing beyond measure this morning at church. We knew our little Church of Promise family had been receiving love offerings for our family during the month of June. We knew that our little Church of Promise family has a heart for our family's mission. We knew that they love us. We had no idea that God would use our little Church of Promise family to present us with well over $2000 at church this morning for our adoption! Praise God for this family. We are blessed.

Another blessing has been the arrival of our fundraising t-shirts. The Braner family adopted beautiful Gabby from Rwanda and are in the process of bringing home Jean de Dieu from Rwanda. Because of their deep desire to help place orphans in forever families, they have come alongside our family to help us design and sell t-shirts to raise funds for our adoption. We feel incredibly blessed to have them selling our shirts at Kamp Kanakuk Colorado and facilitating internet sales through annidesigns.com .The shirts have a map of Africa with the word "Ibyiringiro" (the word for "hope" in Kinyarwanda) across it. Many thanks to those who have already purchased shirts!

The blessing of living in the United States of America has not been far from our minds this weekend. We enjoyed time with Gram and Papa and lots of friends. We rode rides, watched and participated in parades, entered a bar baking contest, watched fireworks, and ate lots of good food. We worshipped God freely with our church family this morning. We were challenged to pray for our country and to do the tasks to which God calls us. We have truly been blessed beyond measure.