"BEARD BE GONE"
FUNDRAISER
to bring Judah home
5/18/17 UPDATE:
This Fundraiser ran from 5-12 to 5-18-17
We are SO grateful to announce that by the graciousness of our friends and family, we are SO much closer to bringing Judah home this summer! God has provided for this adoption through generous and passionate hearts. When we started this adoption, we felt strongly compelled to move forward, but as always, the questions of "how" were prevalent. Because we witnessed, first hand how God provided for our first adoptions, it was easier to trust Him that everything would fall into place to complete this adoption, even though we had no vision of what that would look like. To you, who have stepped up and seen the need for a child without a family to have one and so generously given to bring Judah home, we are continually humbled by your support. And so grateful for the opportunity to be Judah's family, his forever home.
By your generosity, we raised $3500 of the $5000 toward our final financial needs to complete this adoption.
We give Thanks to God for all He is and does through this experience.
If you have not seen it yet, we have a little boy that we are bringing home from China. Judah will become part of the Ryan Clan in, what we hope will be, a short time. We would love to have you partner with us in bringing him home. As you can see from the pics I have grown an epic beard. Aimee would not call it epic. Scruffy, unruly, unkempt, unsightly… maybe, but not epic.
Given our newly estimated and close travel plans of July, we are working hard to finish funding this adoption with one last “epic” fundraiser. We both have been working extra jobs to fund Judah coming home. And with the end in sight, we are striving to be fully funded before the first of July. To help close the gap, I am offering my epic and awesome beard up for ransom. The goal is $5000.00 by thursday, May 18 at 6:30 pm. If we meet the goal, Aimee will get to shave my beard off live on Facebook.
The funds needed to complete the adoption are for the following: Travel Visas, Flights to and from China, In-China travel (planes, trains and automobiles as well as hotels), Adoption Registration, as well as Judah’s Passport, Visa, and Medical Exam. This brings our need to about $7000 to be fully funded.
2 ways to participate in “Beard Be Gone”:
1. LifeSong Account: *for tax deductible gifts
Copy and paste this in your web browser: https://www.lifesongfororphans.org/give/donate/
Under “Please direct my donation to”: click ADOPTION, Under “I'd like to give to”: click Adoptive Family
Family Account: 6419 and Family Name: Ryan
Please complete the rest of the form and click the Give Now button at the bottom.
* If you do this please message me or Aimee or send us an email with the amount that you donated so we can keep a running total to reach our goal. We only get updates on that account every 3-5 days, so if we are unaware, we may not count your donation in the total. *Individual donations of $50 or more and Yearly totals over $250 will receive a tax-deductible receipt.
2. PAYPAL
If you do not need the tax break then you can donate via our PayPal account.
Cut and paste in your web browser: paypal.me/drewnaimee
We can check on paypal totals as often as we like.
We have been so humbled by the support of our friends and family during this process. Thank you for joining efforts with us to give Judah a family and for him to have the opportunity to know his value and that he is loved in this world. Please continue to pray with us as we graft our lives together. We trust in the path ahead and take one step at a time in faith. #FaithMovesMountains
aimee.ryan01@gmail.com
drew.ryan01@me.com
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