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!