Hopeful

Hey Friends & Family...

Fundraising IS SOO HARD, but we are Hopeful. We are humbled to ask again for your help. Your purchase of $10-50 could help us WIN a $500 Grant with Ordinary Hero. That is A LOT of money towards our adoption right now. We need to raise roughly $10,000.00 to finish the expenses. We currently have a really good chance at winning this grant. I will continue posting links of merchandise you can buy to support us throughout the week, on facebook. Only 6 days left to help us WIN! Thanks for suporting us and praying for us! There are shirts, teacher gifts, stocking store items and donation packages for kids in Ethiopia available. There is something for everyone! Shop with a purpose and please select our name as the affilate at checkout! Thanks for being OUR Ordinary Hero!
http://www.ordinaryherostore.org/

Thank You; Brett and Micah Frey

PS: You are welcome to make a donation via the chipin link on our blog.

Our Adoption Blog:

www.heartforafricakids.blogspot.com

Anonymous donations can be made. Checks need to be made out to Operation Starfish with our name in the memo and mailed to:

Deidre Weeks

4233 Wyncote Rd.

South Euclid, OH 44121.

THANK YOU!

Finally....

We are entering into the last phase of the financial journey of our adoption. I know that may sound confusing. We have come so far and still have a bit to travel yet. We have a long way to travel apart from the finances. We are still waiting on our referral and pictures, and we have to travel twice! So there will be lots of tears and crazy insane waiting days ahead of us. But all of that aside...this past weekend we had a BIG indoor "garage" sale. We raised $680.00. We only needed $400 to finish step 2 of the financial journey. Pending no new expenses come up we only have $10,000.00 left to raise. I know..its sounds like a lot, but we have come soooo far!

I would like to THANK some of the people who helped pull of the g'sale and make it a great success...

God...for providing the donations, the shoppers, the helpers and the opportunity to raise 5 of his precious children.

All the shoppers and donaters (mom, Laura Hawk, my sister Tabitha, Megan P to name some of the donaters)!

Angie Riley and Jeanne Okrasinski for sitting the sale w/ me on Saturday...HUGE help!

Angie Riley, Jeanne O, Jeff O, Brett, Laura Hawk (and her dad), Jenni Thompson, my Mom, my daughter Micayla for helping set up the craziness. I'm afraid I'm forgetting someone.

I can't thank all of you enough! I'm sooo sorry if I'm forgetting someone.

Peace and love; Micah

Oh and we also sell COFFEE!

Since its getting cool again. You can help us financially with our adoption by purchasing coffee at this site! We get $5 per bag sold. Thanks!

http://www.justlovecoffee.com/TheFreys

We are 1/2 way there financially...

So, If you feel led to give to our adoption, you can do so via the "chipin" link on the right (there is a 4% fee deduction) OR

for a tax deductable donation (or anonymous donations) write checks to "Operation Starfish" with our name Brett and Micah Frey in the memo..THIS IS IMPORTANT or it will go to the general adoption fund. And mail to:

Deidre Weeks

C/o Operation Starfish

4233 Wyncote Rd.

South Euclid, OH 44121.

OR...

You can make a purchase at Ordinaryherostore.org and we get 40% of your purchase!

Please help us spread the word...we are HALF WAY there!

SUPER THANKS!

Seven weeks...

and waiting, and waiting, and waiting. I email our case worker once a month...so I have one more week till I check in with her. *sigh* Somedays I do great, other days...I check my email way too often. Its all part of the process. Please continue to pray for us and please consider purchasing a puzzle piece to help us offset the expenses.

Thanks!

The time is coming...

Slowly, but it is coming. Soon we will get a referral (I pray by Christmas)....heck I pray we make our first trip before Christmas!!!! But for all of that to happen, we need more funds. I'll be honest and say, I don't like putting myself out there...saying we need more money. I don't like vulenerability. Its a humbling experience. If you have a heart for adoption and would like to help make our possible. You can do any one of the following...

Make a finanical contriubution via the CHIPIN link on the right (they take 4%, we get the rest)

Mail a donation directly to us (we get 100%) it to us:
Freys 1511 Harrison Ave
Charleston IL, 61920

If you would like to make a tax deductible donation make your check out to:
Operation Starfish with Brett and Micah Frey in the memo. We will receive 100% of you donation. Please make sure to include your address, so they can mail you a receipt. Mail it to:
Operation Starfish
C/o Deidre Weeks
4233 Wyncote Rd.
South Euclid OH, 44121

Or you can make a purchase via the Ordinary Hero store, link on the right. We get 40% of every purchase.

You can also buy from us a puzzle piece. They are $5 a piece. We keep the pieces, but write your name on them. When we put the puzzle together...we can then, see all your names! Its a great keepsake.

Thank you!


Thank you!

Its a new day....

Our adoption (I feel like I say this all the time) is a spiritual journey. Please, allow me to be transparent. Somedays I do fine, I know in my heart and my head that God has all the finances of our adoption worked out...in his perfect timing. Other days when I look at the price thermometer we have hanging in our kitchen, and I see the HUGE amount due at the next step...I get discouraged. I let go of my faith and become completely overwhelmed and anxious. Oh, yes, I know that is sinful. I get angry at myself for allowing myself to even get to that point. There is no justification for it. It is how God is working on me through this adoption.
I remember when we first started, I wasn't worried or concerned at all about the expenses. I knew throughout my whole being that Jesus would take care of it ALL. (Brett and I have completely flip flopped in this respect). Somewhere along the way my logic took over. I try to figure out how to make the ends meet for the next financial step. I keep telling myself...."let go and let God." "Allow Him to work this out, and show Himself in a mighty way." "This is God's thing, not Micah's." It is of Satan to attack when I'm most vulnerable. He waits till I'm on the edge wondering how we are going to make the next step work and he ATTACKS. You don't see the attack, because it happens within me. It is a war raging within me. Its frustrating that I allow myself to fall into his pit of lies and deceit. BUT, I'm hear to tell you...
God loves me, my family and those two tiny African orphans so much! He is FAITHFUL. God does pull through everytime. And thankfully, he is mighty to save and forgive, sinful me...not just one time, two, three or four times...but everytime I fall for one of Satan's lies.
We have been working the past few days on trying to get sales through Ordinary Hero because they are offering a $500 grant to the highest seller. We currently have a $23 sale. The grant offer ends tomorrow. This morning....my phone rang. A lady from Ohio who has SEVEN children called and asked me about our adoption and where we were at financially. I asked her if I could be honest with her...and I shared the above struggles with her. She was sooo encouraging. She prayed for me and encouraged me in this journey. Three of her children are adopted. She knows first hand. God provided every penny for all three of her adoptions. And she said, "I want to give you $1,000.00 today towards your adoption." Yes, it took my breathe away...and then the tears came. Why do I allow myself to take my eyes off of Jesus? Why do I allow myself to fret for one minute? Why can I not remember that God loves those precious orphans more than I do? Why can I not remember HE is the created of all living things? A $30,000-$50,000 adoption is nothing for Him. The only reason I know that makes any sense is...I'm human. Lousy reason, I know! But God is finished with me yet
If God moves you to give, you can give via the chipin link on the right hand side of our blog. You can purchase an item through Ordinary Hero (link on the top right), we get 40% of those sales. If you would like to make a donation and receive a tax write-off, please contact me. Have a Blessed Day!

Philippians 1:6...being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus