Family Tree Donation

Hello dear friends! Many of you have graciously, generously expressed a desire to offer us a financial donation for our adoption fees. For that, we are truly so, so grateful. This process would be impossible on so many levels without everyone's support, be it prayer, love, kindness, encouraging words and listening ears, or financial gifts.
Although we will most certainly be the proud parents of this new child, we strongly believe that this is not just "our" adoption, it is beyond just us. We were all created for deep fellowship and linking arms and sharing burdens and drinking joy together, for one another, as we all lay our heads in the lap of the same Father. When my lap is full of my two sweet ones, legs twisted, arms intertwined so tightly you can't find the start and stop of one another, I tremble joy with the thought of another pair (or more) added into the lap-mix.
It's a long way off still until they're here, I know, so I'm praying that as this "gestation" period of the adoption unfolds, that this child will continue to be born in my heart since they can't be born of my body. Motherhood has helped me understand God's love for me, adoption is helping me understand his rescue. So, as one's who have been love-rescued, we step out and we welcome fellow journeyers in our story, as part of one collective, bigger story.

If you'd like to journey with us, you can click the link to the right for Family Tree Donation and it will take you to our donation page on our international adoption agency's website (Children of All Nations). Click the red Donate button and it will lead you through the simple process. Your donation will go directly to our adoption fees via Children of All Nations accounting department and we will receive notification that a donation has been made within 24 processing hours.

In regards to praying for us, YES please! We would love it if you would pray for:
*The home study process--that it would be smooth and speed-bump free
*The adoption conference we will be attending in October--that we would be refreshed and inspired and educated about this adoption thing.
*The dossier packet for our international agency-- it has the potential to be tedious and confusing and generally overwhelming.
*The child(ren) waiting for us--that they would be protected from further trauma and hurts, that their hearts would begin to soften towards the idea of being loved and in a family, that they would feel safe and protected and secure where they are now, that the Holy Spirit would bring peace and comfort to their days and nights.
*For financial provision during this adoption process.
*Protection emotionally, spiritually, mentally as our family is stepping into this. It's a vulnerable, trusting place to be for a while.


Thank you and we love you so,
The Hoffers

Fundraising via Amazon

So many of you have graciously asked how you can support us during this process. Thank you, thank you for being so supportive already! We are in the process of setting up a few fundraising opportunities, as well as thinking of some creative ways to allow people to be involved. We are only able to do this because of the community God has generously blessed us with, supporting us along the way.

One thing we do already have established is an Amazon Affiliate link located to the right -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->>>>>>

It's super simple in that, whenever you have a hankering to shop via amazon, you pop on over to our blog FIRST, click that amazon ad, and it will take you directly to your good ol' amazon homepage.

That's it, done, go shop, that simple and painless. When you do that, amazon recognizes that you have come through our registered affiliate blog and we get 10% back off of your total purchase, at no increased cost to you. That goes directly into an adoption savings account connected to amazon, and we are one step closer to funding our adoption. YAY!! And you helped. Double YAY!!!! And you bought something groovy. Double-extra YAY!!!!

So get to shopping folks, Christmas is just around the corner!