Hello Everyone,
Below is our letter with the information about our matching grant. Please feel free to share our blog address and/or this info with anyone who may have a heart for adoption. THANK YOU!!!
Dear Family, Friends and Supporters of Adoption,
As many of you may have already heard we feel that God has called us on a new journey to provide a “forever” family to two children through the process of adoption. We have started down this path and are excited to bring a boy and a girl into our home within the next six to twelve months. We have felt led to pursue two kiddos from China
This road to adoption is full of many joys and challenges: the greatest joy being the inclusion of two more kiddos into our family and the greatest challenge being finances. The costs of adoption include the expenses of a home study, adoption agency, lawyers, travel, medical reports, paperwork translation, immigration, etc. with the total cost ending up somewhere around $39,000.
We are very happy to say that recently we were awarded a matching funds grant to help with the expenses of our adoption through Hand in Hand Christian Adoption, Inc., a non-profit private operating foundation. Hand in Hand will match any funds that are donated through our friends and family for the expenses of our adoption. All funds received through our friends and family will be matched dollar for dollar by Hand in Hand up to our awarded grant amount. All donations are tax-deductible.
You can find out more about Hand in Hand through their website at http://www.handinhandadopt.org/. If you have further questions about the Hand in Hand matching grant program please feel free to email us at knoxfam4@gmail.com. You may also contact Hand in Hand Christian Adoption, Inc. with any questions you may have. They can be reached at 913-248-5015 or by e-mail at handinhandadopt@gmail.com.
If you feel led to support us financially, please send all donations made payable to “Hand in Hand Christian Adoption” postmarked by August 16, 2011 to:
Hand in Hand Christian Adoption, Inc.
Chris and Bethany Knox
**For tax purposes please include our name on the outside of the envelope only. Do not put our name on the check itself. Thank you!**
All donations postmarked by August 16, 2011 will go toward our adoption costs. Any received after that date will go into a general fund at Hand in Hand to help bring other children home to their forever families.
Thank you for your prayerful consideration in helping us to bring our son and daughter home to their “forever” family. We are blessed to be following God’s call to adopt.
Walking Hand in Hand,
Chris and Bethany
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