Our God is awesome!

We made it! Thank you to everyone that has helped us in this journey so far. We are living proof that God loves to pour out blessings on His children. August has been a big month for us so far. The goal was hit for our matching grant from Hand in Hand and now we are off and running on the next thing through Both Hands. This is a very cool thing, we get a group of folks, help fix up the home of a local widow as the team sends out support letters. If all goes well with that we believe that we will be able to travel to China to pick up Timothy and Annabelle! Check out the pics. Is it weird that Timothy reminds me of Hunter? Ali already has pictures of them hanging in her room. Bethany sent a care package to Annabelle and we got to see pictures of her going through it. Such a great thing to see. Our adoption agency sent a medical team to the orphanage for check ups. Turns out that a lady that goes to our church knows someone that was on that team. We didn't know that this was happening but she went and was able to take pictures of Timothy and Annabelle. I was just floored when that email came through! I am just amazed at how our God takes care of all the little things to make sure that we know that He is in control, how He reminds us that He is working for us in all things. This has been a great adventure so far! Can't wait to see how it ends!

Thanks to you, Awesome Donors!

We had a goal of $5,000 for our matching grant with Hand in Hand Christian Adoption, Inc. Thanks to all you incredible donors, we raised $6,400 of which $5,000 will be matched! That's over $11,000 to help bring

Annabelle
and

Timothy
HOME!!!!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!

Received our PA today!

We received our Pre-Approval to adopt two specific children today. Our family is increasing by two! :)

Meet...

Annabelle

and Timothy

We hope to bring them home in five to six months.

"I will put my trust in Him." Hebrews 2:13

Angel Girl is home!

Glad she is home, but understand her heart for wanting to be back in the D.R. It'll change your life!

So proud of her for working to earn her way. She set her mind to it and earned almost all of the $1,200 it took to get her there. We are grateful to those who donated toward her trip. Thank you! It's so humbling to see God working in your children...and such a blessing!

"...being confident of this, that He Who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." ~Phil. 1:6

Only 18 Days Left....

Thanks to many of you who have sent a donation to Hand In Hand Christian Adoption, Inc. to go toward our goal of $5,000. To date, we have just over $2,000! Wow! Every penny of that gets doubled by Hand in Hand. :)

We have 18 more days to raise $3,000. Everything must be postmarked by August 16th.... just around the corner. Please consider giving to help us bring our two children home. Every little bit helps and every cent up to $5,000 will be doubled. Anything over $5,000 that is postmarked by August 16th will also go toward our adoption.

Remember: Do NOT write our names on the check, but please DO write "Chris and Bethany Knox" on the outside of the envelope. (This is for tax purposes.)

Thank you so much for your generosity and prayers!
Blessings,
Bethany

PS-- Here's the address one more time:

Hand in Hand Christian Adoption, Inc.
Chris and Bethany Knox
18524 Juniper Street
Gardner, KS 66030-9147

24 Days left!

We are up $1500 in support on our goal of $5000 for the matching grant. So grateful for the incredible support from our friends and family. We are truly blessed to have an amazing group of people supporting us. We still are in need of $3500 to make it to our goal. If you are planning to help it just needs to be postmarked by August 16th to make sure the funds go to our adoption. Thank you again for your prayers and assistance.

PLEASE help us with our matching grant!

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 and are now waiting for the specific children God has for us.

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

18524 Juniper Street

Gardner, KS  66030

-9147        

**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

knoxfam4@gmail.com

www.theknoxfamilyjourney.blogspot.com