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Showing posts with label adoption. Show all posts

Friday, September 18, 2020

Peace and Rest at HOME

Thursday for us was at least 28 hours LONG. 

And all of it travel. 

I've had maybe five and half hours of sleep in my own bed. But I was compelled to get up and go see all the faces in all the beds in the house. Because all OUR KIDS are where they belong. 

As I opened each bedroom door to tiptoe in and gaze at each precious face I was also compelled to find that verse, "You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You..." and read that passage. Which I found amusing because in all our exhaustion from our travels, we did feel joy at reuniting with our home folks (and beds) but we didn't exactly feel peace or "stayed on You."  We felt pretty irritated.

I made coffee, fed the critters, and settled into my comfy chair (wow is american furniture comfortable!) and found the verse (I had to look it up) (emphasis added):

Isaiah 26:3

You keep him in perfect peace 

whose mind is stayed on You, 

because he trust in You.

Then I got to Isaiah 26:12 and it jumped off the page and hit me in the heart. 

O Lord, You will ordain peace for us, 

for You have indeed done for us all our works. 

If you've followed along you may remember that a verse that keeps coming back to me (for years) is 1 Thessalonians 5:24 - but lets back up to verse 23

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (24) He who calls you is faithful; He will surely do it. 

Look what God has done - now to have a day (or weekend) of peace and rest!

And what confirmation of how trustworthy and faithful He is! Even in the hard and crazy. 

And the story isn't over...

I'll work soon on updating this little blog on all the happenings that brought us home - and there will be pictures! Stay tuned.

Love ya!



Friday, July 31, 2020

"I don't know"

If you've talked to me lately you've likely heard me utter the words "I don't know" on repeat. 

What will happen when you get to Ukraine? I don't know.
When are you starting school back? I don't know.
How long will you be gone? I don't know. 
What will the kids at home be doing? I don't know. (lots of hanging with Grandmother)
What happens next medically with Andrii? I don't know.
Where is Amsterdam? I don't know. (But it's in the Netherlands - I had to google it). 

Thankfully some things are google-able. There are REAL answers. Other things we just have to trust God with the details. And He has proven faithful with the details.

"He who calls you is faithful; HE WILL SURELY DO IT." 1 Thessalonians 5:24

He didn't say it would be easy. But in His strength we move forward.

"fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you. I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. " Isaiah 41:10

What I do know... not much at the moment. But I know the One who knows it all. 

Love ya!

Friday, July 24, 2020

It's happening!!!

Done with radiation!!!
It's finally happening! We are finally going to Ukraine!!!
We have a date for our SDA/DAP - the appointment in Kiev where they match us with two particular children.  We've booked flights and made lodging reservations. It's all a little surreal. 
But we are so excited to finally see the kids!!!

In order to protect our family's privacy our blog will not be updated with travel information until we get home. 
If your our friend on Facebook you may ask to join our secret Becoming Twelve Facebook group to follow our journey. We just ask that nothing posted there is shared publicly. 

In other news:

We have another teen driver. Our Lora passed her written exam on her first try. However, driving on the road - not just in the yard, proved more difficult than she expected. But practice makes better. 

We will wrap up our CHANGE DRIVE soon - I will post here about that.

Donations may still be made to our matching grant with Promise686 (which is doing very well), or to ABBA Fund, directly to our agency, or to us. Links and addresses below. 



Facetiming siblings

























Promise686 grant 
virtually here 
or via snail mail by noting for the 342Brown Family
Promise686
19 Holcomb Bridge Rd. 
Norcross, GA  30071

ABBA Fund
virtually here
via snail mail by noting for the HEBrown Family
ABBA Fund
PO BOX 868049 
Plano, TX 75086-8049

Our Agency:
Family Connections, Inc.
Note: to the Harold Brown family
P.O. Box 5555
Cortland New York 13045

Our mailing address:
The Brown Family
PO Box 854
Franklin Springs, GA 30639


Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Joy Comes

Picked up my phone to see some wonderful news - a dear family, new friends, the ones adopting our hope-for-kids dear friend, got the call today to come over!!! They have to leave next week!!!
I’m so excited for them!!! REJOICING! 
(AND They were just ahead of us in the process and didn’t expedite, so... any minute now...)

But then I saw another message, a heart breaking message. Other dear friends, long time friends, who had hoped to adopt a particular little baby girl, had the door closed on bringing that baby home today. 
I’m mourning for them. Weeping. 

But we can still rejoice! That baby and her family (bio and hopeful) have been lifted before the throne of our Lord by a great group of believers. Daily. 
He hears. And just because this door closed, their home and hearts are still open. Longing. 

Oh what a torrent of emotions! 

That’s adoption. 

Friday, June 12, 2020

APPROVAL!!!


Today we received APPROVAL!!!! (happy dance!!!) 

This means that in Ukraine we are "registered as candidates for adoptive parents" - WOOHOO!

This is a HUGE step in the right directions! 

Travel between our two nations is aaaaahhhhh.... possibly opening back up soon.... perhaps VERY soon....


In other news:
We parents had a wonderful anniversary - ALONE! 
Love Birds
And then celebrated our Familversay with a cookout with our brood and some grand-folks.
this is a BAD recreation of my favorite picture
- I still love my little weirdos -

 A majority of us went to visit the Alabama relations and celebrate Baby Erin's First Birthday! She is the sweetest! And a total ham for a camera...

Baby Erin & Aunt Erin
My minions with their GREAT Uncle John

me w/my Aunt Carolyn and my Mama
Continue to pray for Andrii. He was supposed to be done with his radiation treatment but didn't pass all his blood test and had to put off several treatments. Hopefully he will finish soon and get a break. He seems to be in good spirits and messages us often.

Anastasia seems to be doing well and having fun hanging out with her friends. We don't get as many messages from her. Makes them all the more precious!

And I'm wearing myself out doing my own little happy dance over our approval!  
So here's a Happy Dance song so you can celebrate this adoption milestone with us.

Love ya! 

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Fly Home Mother’s Day SALE

Mother’s Day May 10th! That’s only 3 weeks away!

We’ve got a limited stock of birds left and for TODAY ONLY* we are cutting prices in half!!!!

Regularly they are $20 each or 2 for $30
But today only you can get them for $10 each or 2 for $20
AND if you purchase 2 or more (shipped to the same address) you get FREE SHIPPING!!!!

We are still working to Fly Home a new son and daughter from Ukraine! Help us get that much closer. 

There are plenty of  both Hummingbirds and the little Jay on Praise Him! Praise Him!  
but very limited stock of Cardinals and Blue Jays. Get them quick!

Order now at this link and pay via PayPal and we will get them in the mail tomorrow (Monday 4/20/2020).

We'll ship directly to you or your mother! Let us know in the Mailing address spot on the order form.














































* TODAY ONLY = Sunday, April 19, 2020

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

While we wait

Last April we were busy compiling all the things for our homestudy. Our first home visit from the social worker was April 20th, 2019. Easter (my favorite holiday) took a back seat to this important task. Our Passover meal was skipped entirely. We celebrated birthdays and mourned the loss of a dear young friend.
That first goal, to complete the homestudy took a LONG time to reach. One piece of paper held us up for months. Like much of this process, it was totally out of our hands.
Last week, despite slow downs and total shutdowns, our Dossier was shipped to our facilitator in Ukraine.

This week Andrii celebrated his 16th birthday. We thought we'd be celebrating with him. A year ago we thought our biggest concern for him would be if he should get a learners license. We were looking forward to the happy "honeymoon phase" and watching the two of them relax into a huge new normal. I thought by now I'd be hugging them good morning and kissing them goodnight.
We thought by now life would look different than this. 

Ukraine hopes to reopen offices April 24th. What will that mean for us?
Will travel open back up? Next month? This summer? Could we go if they called us?
What will the timeline look like now?

We long to wrap these kids in love and hugs.
It’s hard for this mama to stay focused on task. I’m working in circles.
Psalm 91 continues to be a comfort. As well as our continuing study of Genesis.

Joseph was in some terrible trouble. “The Lord was with Joseph...” (Genesis 39:2) and made him a successful slave. But more trouble came “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor...” (Genesis 39:21) as a prisoner. The Lord never left Joseph, but prepared him for the responsibilities to come. The Lord had Joseph wait two long years before he was brought before Pharaoh (Genesis 41), but God was still with him, it was evident even to Pharaoh. And He was promoted and continued to succeed.
God is with us too. Tenderly loving us. Preparing us for what is to come. We are challenged to remember that God holds us in his hands, for His plans, in His timing. And “Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4:16)

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Halted

For the sake of preserving what's happening on this journey of adoption, we would be remiss not to
mention that a global pandemic has halted the adoption. We haven't stopped. The process is just stalled.

Early last week we excitedly mailed all our dossier forms to our agency in the state of New York. But like so many people everywhere they can't "gather" - work is slowed or totally at a stand still. So our documents sit. Waiting. 

Ukraine has been dealing with this slightly longer. They hope to begin accepting dossiers again on April 2nd. Will they reconsider? Probably. Would our documents even be there by then? 
(Update: Ukraine has pushed the end of their quarantine to April 24th)

Like so much of this process, so much of the last year, we wait. 
It's out of our hands. 
We wait. We trust. We hurry. We get excited. We get stand still. 
We are reminded yet again Who is in control. 
That none of this is based on our desire or feelings or effort... but some grander, perfect, good plan that will glorify Him. 

On the flip side, life here is pretty much the same. The daddy and big kids (thankfully) still keep working. Gene as a truck driver, the boys as support for truck drivers (they wash big trucks, which keeps our food trucks rolling), and the older girls in food service (for now). But because of their exposure to folks from all over, we are just assuming we could have been all been exposed. We had already decided to stay away from others as much has possible. 

Life at home is pretty much the same. We continue homeschooling, minus our few regular classes and gatherings. We're finding lots of new things to learn on YouTube. We've indefinitely postponed Josiah's big 10th birthday party. We're just staying home. 

Thankfully, for the most part, we are really good at just being home. We are thankful for good health, for supplements to help boost our immunity, a good size house and a big yard, sunny days, and that we are all pretty easily entertained. 

In other news, I was put in contact with a mom in Minnesota who is trying to adopt the best friend of the kids we are trying to adopt. This young person "calls" then nearly daily. So the mom has gotten to know our hoped for kids a little. What I learned was that 1) eventually, we'll be visited by Minnesotans, and they'll be visited by Georgians, and 2) all three kids have hopes of being home in the USA by summer time. Oh wouldn't that be wonderful!!! 

So we continue to pray. We've just added to our prayers that this virus will pass quickly. That all 13 of us (and all the grand folks) stay really healthy. That this adoption process picks back up. That grants and donations will come in while we wait. That we can be with them soon. 
And we trust He who is sovereign. 
And we wait.  


“Be still, and know that I am God.
    I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth!”
Psalm 46:10

Thursday, March 12, 2020

The Last Shall Be First

We are sticklers for context so I've giggled as verses have come to mind about what has taken place in the last 24 hours. They are NOT about adoption or grants or anything concerning money but...

"The last shall be first..." (Matthew 20:16), or "A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand..." (Psalm 91:7)

We got word yesterday that the last grant we filled out, Open Hearts for Orphans, was approved!!! So we've got our first grant approval. ($2000) Woohoo! 

I also deposited a healthy lump into our adoption account at the bank from the fundraisers we've had recently. Bringing that account to just over a thousand. 

God's providing. 

There's still a ways to go... but we see a small dent. 

In other news, we've been busy!

Saturday at the Jockey Lot
Saturday we parents held a fundraiser at the Anderson Jockey Lot (a huge flee market) and did... okay. It cost us $20 for two tables on which we put lots of treasures that have been donated to help us raise funds. We had sold many items on eBay and Facebook Marketplace but that had slowed down. We also used one end of a table to promote our current Fly Home Fundraiser. We made $99.75 plus the few prints we sold. We meet two Russian speakers - which was thrilling. Talked about ideas for more fundraising (and lots of other stuff). And had a great time together!

The gaggle that went into the GSCCCA
to get documents apostilled
Sunday we listen to our favorite preacher! Gene was invited back to preach at Lighthouse Baptist Church. He's glad he got to stretch that muscle. 
  
On Monday we loaded up the kids and took a little trip down to Atlanta and got 28 documents apostilled, (Don't know what "apostille" means? See my little glossary by clicking here.) It was way easier than I expected and only took about 20 minutes. We are waiting on one more document and our part of the dossier will be done!!!
The gaggle that stayed in the van and
slept while the other half went in to the
GSCCCA

We are studying up on Ukraine, the language, and things to do and see in Kyiv. Which mostly means I'm trying to remember how to say "Hi" and "please" and "thank you" and "where's the bathroom" in Russian - and this old dog is having a hard time with this new trick! But we'll keep studying. 
Our handy Ukraine book & a
little googling printed out

Please continue to pray for us all and the kids waiting on us to come get them. Pray, that while the world seems to be going virus crazy, that the Ukraine borders and government stay open for us and all our new friends who are adopting right now too. 

Heard another song yesterday that tugged at me. "Sovereign Over Us" by Michael W. Smith - that first verse... part of it goes
You are working in our waiting
You're sanctifying us
When beyond our understanding
You're teaching us to trust
 It's posted below.


Love ya!

Monday, March 2, 2020

I may have cried

Last week was busy in our adoption journey. But WOW! How God moved the processes along!!!

Monday we parents had our medical exam for the dossier. We are healthy and free of certain diseases. Donations took care of this expense. The doctors office was a delight to work with even though we need those forms in triplicate. It’s not uncommon to have to have these papers re-done - and that’s what we’ll be doing this week. Big THANKS to Dr. Raber and his staff at Lighthouse Family Practice.
We also have to have another paper re-done. Thanks to our sweet realtor Theresa Jordan for her help.
We’re very thankful for sweet people who exhibit God’s long-suffering patience with this paperwork.

Near the end of the week we commented about waiting on several things/papers that are totally out of
our control, like immigration approval and FBI clearance. On Friday, Dan the agency man voiced concern that the way we submitted for our FBI clearance could take forever to get back (well, he said 14 weeks - but right now that’s forever). But it only took 2 weeks!!! When we checked the mail after lunch our FBI clearance was there!!!
I was able to get those in the mail him that afternoon.

Then Saturday, while relaxing with some of the children, what should come (that could have taken 75 days but came after only one month)? Our USCIS (immigration) approval!!!!
We have approval from the United States to  “adopt 2 child/ren from Ukrine."

And that's when I may have cried.
Ava was over, she caught it all on film (or whatever you call snatching up your phone and clicking).

We were so worried about how to get the USCIS to expidite. We fretted. We made calls. We worried other people. But all our effort was for nothing. God had better plans.

Somehow, all 9 of the "already here" children were home Saturday night. So we had pizza and celebrated and watched a movie.

 No now we continue to work with our agency to finish up our parts of dossier and keep fundraising and hoping for grants and look forward expectantly to how God will continue to work in this process.



Friday, February 21, 2020

The Greatest Help

I was lamenting the lack of sharing of our current and recent fundraisers. Thankfully, I was just complaining privately to myself. I quickly had a talk with me.

I reminded my complaining self of a documentary we (Gene and I, not the royal we) had the opportunity to see called Blind Eyes Opened. It tells the hard truth about sex trafficking in America. Not a family flick, but could be watched by middle schoolers as they are a much targeted group. Certainly a topic of safety that parents should be discussing at age appropriate levels.

At the end of the showing they had gathered these women who had been featured in the film, all recovering and experiencing the hope and healing found in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
They discussed their current lives and the ministries they were involved with. Then were asked,  “How can people help?”

Then we heard the BEST answer ever!!!
“You can do something as little as give, or as much as pray."

As a ministry leader and hopeful adoptive mama, I LOVE that answer.

I know many who are praying. And I know God is hearing and answering those prayers. He has proven it again and again over this past year of trying. And I have no doubt He will continue.
His plans are so much greater!

While I was typing out these thoughts who should arrive but the UPS man! 

And guess what arrived!!! 

Our Fly Home Fundraiser prints (they are gorgeous!)  AND our silicone bracelets from the 12-12-12-12 for World Cancer Day fundraiser (they aren’t exactly what I expected, but they’ll do).

What an encouragement!!!  

The birds and the bracelets are still available- just click on the linky-word things  up there to find out more or see below.

God is good!

Drop me a comment below and tell me how God has been good to you this week! 



To skip the reading of other blog post and get to business:
For Fly Away Home Bird Prints on antique hymn pages by Cady Driver see our order form by clicking here. 
For a #becoming12 brain and children's cancer awareness silicone bracelet give via PayPal to  PayPal.me/edbrown77 - note "for adoption" and your mailing address; or to make a tax deductible gift through the Abba Fund click here.

Friday, February 7, 2020

Fly Home

I LOVE Hymns! 
I LOVE birds! 
So this beautiful opportunity we have been given is right up my alley! 

An amazing artist and adoptive mother, Cady Driver, is allowing us the opportunity to fund raise with her gorgeous artwork to help us "Fly Home" our new children.

These are high quality professional prints made from original art that she painted on antique hymnal pages. They will fit an 8x10 frame or opening. We can deliver these locally, or ship them!

We chose five of our favorites to offer as a fundraiser to help us get these two new kids home from Ukraine,  and we hope that you love them! We are currently taking pre-orders to help us figure out the number of prints that we will need to order. We are asking $20  (or $15 if you buy 2 or more), plus shipping if needed, per print.

These would make great gifts for Easter, Mother's Day, Anniversaries,  and Birthdays coming up this Spring. Or perhaps you could get a big jump start on your Christmas shopping!

We will also be drawing the names of a few people who SHARE this post via social media or email or to your own blog (leave a link!), to receive a free print of your choice! So, please share and comment how you shared so that we can keep track!
EDIT: Our first winner was chosen on March 6th - Congratulations Grace A. 
We'll draw again at the beginning of April so keep sharing! And don't forget to comment!

We are so thankful to Cady for this incredible blessing! You can find out more about Cady on her website here and Instagram page here or Facebook here. 

Click Here for the Link to PreOrder - or copy and paste the link below

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScthKqTeuaMlIT8HxCGk9WNmgAH6tSnzGUEo4rz7ukwHx15Jw/viewform?usp=sf_link


Blue Jay on Blessed Assurance

Cardinal on Sweet By and By

Hummingbird on Christ the Lord is Risen Today

Hummingbird on He Leadeth Me

Jay on Praise Him! Praise Him!

Saturday, February 1, 2020

Today’s Good News!

Yesterday, I was sent 1 Samuel 12:16 and today we have LOTS of good news to share! 🀩

First, wonderful news about Andrii!
He saw a physiologist for 3 days and is feeling much better. He’s also eating “normal food in pieces” and likes the hospital cafe and enjoys “cheesecake fries” (I have no idea what that is but can’t wait to eat it with him!)
“His girls” (nurses) report that he is more relaxed.
He had an MRI on Friday, so we are waiting on those results.
But the best news is for a few days he got to go back to the center where he and Anastasia live!
(The picture is from today!)
To date, all of his uncovered medical needs have been covered by donations! 😍

Second, we had a great call with our adoption agency guy, Dan, yesterday evening. He is started on our dossier and we should have something dossier related to work on by Wednesday.
He also mentioned another place we can request the process be expedited! Which is great!
But that also means we need these funds ASAP!

Which brings me to the third and fourth pieces of good news.

3. To date we have applied for 6 grants. Two more to go out Monday and one more ready but waiting on a letter from our social worker (homestudy gal).

And number 4, if you know us on Facebook you may remember the beautiful birds on hymns fundraiser our friends the Cogan family was doing. Yes? No? Well, as of this morning that is being set up and we should have it ready to go soon. It’s really beautiful! And with Valentines, Easter and Mother’s Day coming up will hopefully do very well.

Our current fundraiser “12/12/12/12 for World Cancer Day” is at $197 and will be active for 7 more days.

Drop us a comment and let us know what good thing the Lord is doing in your life!

Love ya!

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

12-12-12-12 for World Cancer Day


Our next big goal - the biggest goal yet! - is to raise $12,000!!!*
This will cover the Ukrainian fees.
For next 12 days (Jan 28-Feb 8), in honor of  πŸŒ World Cancer Day (Feb. 4), to help raise funds to bring home a new son, who is now a brain cancer patient, and his sweet sister through adoption we will send you a very cool gold and gray #becoming12 silicone bracelet for every $12 or more donated. πŸ’–



Wouldn’t it be awesome if we actually did raise that much in 12 days!?!?! #highhopes 

πŸ’› Gold represents childhood cancer 
🀍 Gray represents brain cancer
#becoming12 - that’s us (blog, intstagram, Facebook) 

Better picture coming soon! The bracelets have been ordered and are being created.**


To give via the Abba Fund click HERE be sure to comment “for the HE Brown Family”
Or via PayPal click HERE comment “adoption fund” and include your mailing address

Help us help them! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‘©πŸ»‍🀝‍πŸ‘¨πŸΌπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
$12,000
12 days
$12 at a time
#becoming12

Please share! πŸ₯°


Math dork moment: 
If 1000 people each gave $12...
If 500 people each gave $24...
If 250 people each gave $48...
If 125 people each gave $96...
If 100 people each gave $120...
If 50 people each gave $240...
If 25 people each gave $480...
If 12 people each gave $1000... well that would totally blow my mind!


*funds raised will be used for any adoption expenses
** yes $12 is a lot for a silicone bracelet- but the point is not the bracelet. The point is to make 2 less orphans! πŸ₯°

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Goals (or What now?)

This particular post may be boring for many of you. Sorry. Just skip it. 
For other's it will be an answer to many questions. 
Many thanks to Google for the images.

Several sweet and interested folks have asked "Now what?" or "Isn't it paid for yet?" (sometimes it's us asking those questions) and some have sweetly suggested that we list each goal - we'll try to be more forthcoming. 


Currently, the USCIS* and FBI is $1115 and is met. And as of this writing they have been mailed off! WOOHOO! Now we wait on USCIS to respond. 

While we wait we aren't going to be sitting still (except for the parts we literally have to sit still for). We have lots to do!

Here's whats to come (followed by a glossary of weird words and an expected cost list):

1) Grant* writing. I've already researched many grants that we may qualify for and now that we have the homestudy* we can actively pursue those. If your looking for me, I'll be in the basement writing grants. 

2) Building the dossier*. Which includes new medical exams and test and other fun things, having it all apostilled*, and mailing it to Ukraine. 

3) Continue Fundraising for Agency Fees, Ukraine Fees, Expected In-country fees , and travel expenses. 

4) Continue to update you pretty people. 

5) Stay the course! And continue to scrimp and save while we pray. 

Glossary

Apostille (pronounced “ah-po-steel”) is a French word meaning certification. ... The Apostille is attached to your original document to verify it is legitimate and authentic so it will be accepted in one of the other countries who are members of the Hague Apostille Convention. In GA it's $3 per document.


dossier /ˈdΓ΄sΔ“ΛŒΔ,ˈdΓ€sΔ“ΛŒΔ/ (pronounced "dos-see-A") noun; a collection of documents about a particular person, event, or subject.

grant noun; a sum of money given by a government or other organization for a particular purpose.

homestudy noun; an assessment of prospective adoptive parents to see if they are suitable for adopting a child.


USCIS noun; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).



Expenses to come 

(this is not exhaustive, and does NOT include things already covered):
https://www.adoptfamilyconnections.org/
These are also our next goals.
$3,250 Agency Fees, Family Connections (most of this has been paid, update to come)
*$12,000 Ukraine Fees (2 siblings) (this covers facilitators, translations, and legal fees) - this is our current fundraising goal - and the biggest one yet!
$1000-1500+ Dossier preparation (this would include updated and in-depth medical exams, fees for other documents we may need to create, getting EVERYTHING apostilled, and mailing the whole thing to Ukraine) 
$4680 In-Country Fees  (this includes an orphanage gift, birth certificates, passports, & US embassy fees like Visas and medical exams. We may also have the added expense of any required medical for Andrii while we are there)
$15,480-$27680 Estimated Travel Expenses depending on how many times we must travel to Ukraine,  and the cost of transportation, room and board at the time of travel) We are trusting that whatever is provided will be exactly the right amount. God is a great provider.


Current Ongoing Fundraisers 

Click on colored words for links.
Abba Fund - tax deductible gift, Abba Fund pays directly to service provider. Please specify "for the HE Brown family" in the comments online, or in a note with your check. 
Bonfire T-shirts
PayPal - paid directly to us. Please specify "adoption" 
Family Connections, Inc. - this is our agency. Any money received over their fees will go toward Ukraine fees or travel expenses.
Kathy's Kreations on Facebook (just made up that name) - the "Morgan cousins" supplied us with lovely things they crafted to help us raise funds - Hair scrunchies, headbands, lanyards, & dog bandannas

More to come!