June 8, 2012
Dear Family and Friends,
“1. Stay
on good terms with each other, held together by love. 2. Be ready with a meal
or a bed when it's needed. Why, some have extended hospitality to angels
without ever knowing it!” Hebrews 13:1-2
Some of
you know we have felt called and directed by God to adopt children into our
family. We are adopting one or two
children from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
We received an email from our agency with encouraging news that we could
be getting a referral soon! We still do
not know the child that God has chosen for us to parent, but we are getting
more excited by the day!
Some of
you are probably wondering what has prompted us to adopt. Well we were ready to
be parents at least four years ago, but with many things God has his own
timing. We decided to become foster
parents two years ago and have fostered four little boys in our home. We have been so blessed by their innocence
and love. We hope that Nate and Mike,
our current placement, get to stay with us forever, but that is not in our
control. We constantly remind each other
to live each day to the fullest and love them as much as we can. About a year ago we decided to begin the
journey of international adoption. We
finalized all of our paper work in December 2011 and have been waiting for a
referral since.
A referral
is when they will call to tell us that they have one or two orphan children
that they have matched with us and we will adopt them. The children will be of either sex and could be
from birth to 4 years old. We cannot
wait to be ‘forever parents’ to as many children as God has in mind for us.
The
biggest challenge for us is not opening our hearts and home to children, but also
finding the finances to make this reality. We estimate our total cost for
adoption fees, document preparation, home study, airfare, travel, attorney
fees, etc. to be $25,000. That is
certainly money we don’t have, but we know God is faithful and is leading us to
trust Him. By God’s grace we have been able to pay the initial $8,500. We have received one Grant from an
organization called ”Show Hope” for a total of $6,000 dollars.
It is
difficult (because of our pride), to make our needs known to the Body of Christ
around us; but we also know it’s very Biblical to do so. We appreciate your
friendship very much and would like you to pray & consider helping us in
our adoption. There are two ways you can help:
1. Prayer – Please pray God would tenderly care for the Children in DRC
until we are able to bring our children home. Please pray that God would
prepare Nathen, Mike, and our extended family for the upcoming changes to our
family. And that God will give us wisdom, discernment, and insight as we raise
our children.
2. Financial support - Will you please consider making a
tax-deductible donation to help us pay the remaining $10,500 in adoption
expenses, to bring our children home?
Lifesong (www.lifesongfororphans.org) has graciously set up a fundraising
account for us to raise funds to help pay the “ransom” to bring our children
home. If you would like to be a part of God bringing Children to Himself
through our family, you can send your tax-deductible gift between now and July
16th to the address below. Lifesong is a trusted organization administering
the funds on our child’s behalf, and will pay adoption expenses out of funds
received.
1. Please
make checks payable to: Lifesong. You may preference how the donation might be
used by writing “preference Knight #2428 Adoption” in the memo section
of your check.
(*Note: In
following IRS guidelines, your donation is to Lifesong which retains full
discretion and control over its use.)
2. Mail
checks to:
Lifesong
for Orphans
Att:
Knight #2428 Adoption
PO Box 40/202
N. Ford St.
Gridley,
IL 61744
Thank you for investing in the Kingdom through prayer and finances
– it will be an investment with an eternal return (Matt 6:20). We will give you updates and details as
we receive them. Please pray this entire process will glorify God and fulfill
His purposes!
In Christ,
Jordan and
Lindsey Knight
