Helping us
bring Eli Home…
Well, we are
just a few months away from traveling to China to bring our precious Eli
home! We are anxiously awaiting the
moment we finally have a travel date in our hands! Until then, we still have lots to do to
prepare for his arrival. The biggest
challenge for us is not opening our hearts and home to another child, but it is
in finding the finances to make this happen.
We estimate our total cost for adoption fees, document preparation, home
study, airfare, travel, attorney fees, etc. to be $30,000 - that’s certainly
money we don’t have, but we know God is faithful and is leading us to trust
Him. By God’s grace and generous giving
from our friends and family, we’ve been able to pay the initial $10,000.
Many of you
have asked how you can help us. There
are two BIG ways in which you can help us with these final steps in our
adoption process:
1. Prayer – Please pray God would tenderly care for Eli in China until we are able to
bring him home, that God would prepare Trip and Mady for the upcoming changes
to our family, and that God will give us wisdom, discernment, and insight as we
raise Eli in our forever family!
2.
Financial support - Will you please consider
making a tax-deductible donation to help us pay the remaining $20,000 in
adoption expenses, to bring Eli home?
Promise686 (www.promise686.org) has graciously given a Matching Grant of
$4,000 to help bring Eli home. If you would like to be a part of bringing Eli
home, you can send your tax-deductible gift to the address below. Your donations will be matched by promise686
on a $1-for-$1 basis up to $4000.
Promise686 will reimburse adoption expenses out of funds received. Promise686 is a non-profit adoption and
foster care ministry dedicated to expanding God’s Kingdom by helping to bring
the fatherless into Christian homes. Promise686
is a tax exempt 501c3 organization and your gift is tax deductible.
You can make your donations to
Promise686 one of two ways. Either CLICK HERE to make an online
donation. Or follow the steps below to
send in a check:
1.
Please make
checks payable to: Promise686, Inc. You
must preference how the donation is to be used by writing “Eli Kuehn Adoption-178” in the memo section of your check.
(*Note: per IRS
guidelines, promise686 maintains complete discretion and control over the use
of all donated funds, but intends to honor the donor’s suggested use.)
2.
Mail checks to:
Promise686, Inc
3600 River Ferry Drive
Johns Creek, GA 30022
We are hoping to be able to bring Eli home early in 2014, so we have a small window of time to raise the money for our remaining expenses. Thank you for loving our family and supporting our
adoption! We look forward to personally
introducing you all to Eli in 2014!
