THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FYI

This blog is intended for those of you have donated to our behalf directly to our adoption agency through online donations. We have a feeling that many of you have donated towards our adoption journey and that we have not been able to thank you. We want to let you know that we are not ignoring your generosity. We are so blessed to have such a huge group of people who love us, who love adoption, who love baby Woodson, and love to fight for orphans.  We want to let you know that through some of you letting us know that you have donated online, we are discovering that it takes a while for our adoption agency to notify us of your gift. They try their best to let us know within 10 work days, but your gifts are processed through two different departments which can take a little longer. Our adoption agency just recently started this program that allows family and friends to donate to adopting families directly online, and there has been a huge amount of donations coming in. I know in the Ethiopia program alone there are over 150 families, so with all the other programs I know there are a lot of families receiving donations.

From what you are telling us and when we receive the notification it is taking 3-4 weeks for us to be notified. We just want to let you know this, because we don't want it to seem like we are ungrateful. Like I said, we have the best support system anyone could ask for, and we thank you for what you have done. As long as you don't give anonymously, we will be sure to let you know we received your donation. If you give anonymously, we thank you now. WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

We pray for those of you who have donated. We pray that you will be blessed in ways you can't imagine just like we are being blessed through your giving. 

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