Pennies from Heaven...our newest fundraising effort

The birth of a new idea:

Trey wanted to buy a Veggie Tales watch, so I was helping him count out his change (so graciously donated by Grandma :). I naturally started with the quarters, moved on to dimes, and then nickles. I didn't feel like counting the pennies, and I knew he didn't need them. Plus, I figured the cashier would be relatively upset if we paid with pennies. As I cast them aside, I thought to myself, "I wonder if pennies had feelings if they would feel like Sasha." As strange as this thought might be, the paralells are too great to ignore: we toss our pennies aside as if they are worthless, just like Sasha has been labeled; pennies are easily distinguished from other coins because of their color, they are the "outcasts" of the change purse. Right now, our baby is an outcast in his country. But we want to restore him to his original shine, and show him his God given worth.

When God led the Israelites out of Egypt, they took little food with them and were soon in need of something to eat. And we all know that God rained down manna from Heaven to fulfill their need. A tiny, snowflake-like bread was sent to silence the hunger of hundreds of thousands of people. Wouldn't it be neat to see just how much money we could raise with pennies? To watch our need be met with the smallest of coins?

We are asking you to send us your "pennies from Heaven". This can be done in any form. You can add them up and make that tax-deductible donation to our family grant fund, you can take them to the coin star machine in the grocery store, or if you live nearby feel free to drop off a bag of pennies and let us do the work :) 

I really want to see what God will do with pennies, and then maybe we can start to change our thought process and turn back to the Almighty God instead of the "almighty dollar". Please consider joining our efforts, pass this along, and for all of my bloggers/facebookers, please keep our links on your pages, and help us to spread the word. And be sure to keep checking the blog for an upcoming non-raffle (raffles are illegal :)! We already have some great prizes!

One other quick request: I learned today that Sasha's country is in the process of possibly changing their adoption procedures. This spells trouble, but we simply cannot worry about it. Instead we are asking you to help us by praying about it. The real trouble seems that in order to change things, the country would have to close its doors to international adoptees for a few months. If and when they will do this all remains to be seen, but the way it would affect us is that it would nullify all of our paperwork. We would essentially have to begin compilling our dossier from scratch, because the dates must not be any older than 5 months. We refuse to panic, and we have already seen the power of your faithful prayers! Thank you!!!