The emotional roller coaster continues...

My emotions have been running high since yesterday (Wed) morning, actually since last Friday. Last night was our big fundraiser. We played Bingo at the VFW and people won prizes and shopped the vendors. When we first intiated this fundraiser we needed $3,400.00 to submit our dossier. Over this past week, we had two very generous donations come to us...one anonymous from someone in the Greenup area and another from a Bible study group from Newton Il. And some other donations trinkled in since we opened the fundraiser. Our good friends "The O's" had a super garage sale and felt led to give a portion of their earnings to our adoption...super sweet of them. Last night we added up all the funds we had. We went $15.49 over our goal. So I mailed the dossier to adoption agency this am w/ FedEx and it cost $11.19! Leaving us with a $4.30 balance! God is soooo good and faithful. He loves to use opportunities to show himself to us. He also uses these opportunities to lean on him instead of our own understanding. Up to this point we have somehow (God's way only) have paid out roughly $18,000.00 since January! Thats incredible! We have pinched, saved, sold, asked and we have received! We can't think God, our friends and family enough. THANK YOU!




Where are we now? Our dossier is on its way to our adoption agency. It will be double checked to make sure all the "i's and t's" are dotted and crossed. Then it will go to Washington DC and then to Ethiopia. We wait now. We wait with fingers crossed and prayers said that all the paperwork is as it should be....and nothing gets sent back to us. And we wait for that awesome little picture(s) to arrive with our child(ren)'s face.




And while we wait...we continue to raise money. We truly are financially only 1/2 way through the process even though it feels like we are much closer to the finish line. We are closer to getting our children, but there are still lots of dollars to pay out to the Ethiopian government and the adoption agency. My husband made a great chart...(Click on the picture to make it bigger)


Like I said, "about 1/2 way financially." If you feel led to give to our adoption, click on the chipin link on the right hand side and donate. The credit card people take 4%. Or you can mail it to us directly...
Brett & Micah Frey
1511 Harrison Ave
Charleston IL, 61920
Please put ADOPTION FUND in the memo.
We are sorry that we do not have a way to make your donation a tax deduction. Please continue to pray for us and the finances and for our precious children. That God may continue his faithfulness and keep them placed safely in the palm of his hand....till we can bring them home.
Its a good day! :)