Financing Adoption: Our First Fundraiser!

"Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause." Isaiah 1:17

Because of the overwhelming costs associated with domestic adoption (usually around $25,000-$40,000), fundraising will need to play a large role in bringing home our baby in order for us to meet our goal of fundraising without incurring any debt. Our first goal is to raise $5,000 to cover application fees and our homestudy (the extensive background check process used to determine whether families can provide a safe an loving home for an adopted child). We hope that you'll considering supporting our adoption in one (or more!) of the following ways: 

With Your Time & Talents

We have a number of ideas for different fundraisers we'd like to do in the coming months, and we'll need lots of volunteers to pull them off. Stay tuned for more information about opportunities to donate your time. Also, if you'd like to donate some of your talents to help bring our baby home, we'd love to hear about it! 

With Your Finances

We trust that God will provide the funds needed to complete this adoption. One way may be through people like you: our friends and family. With that in mind, we ask you to consider if God is leading you to contribute financially and be a part of giving our child the gift of a family. If you're willing to make a donation now, there's information below on our first official fundraiser. 

With Your Prayers

We are so excited to grow our family through adoption, but we're also overwhelmed by what seems like an impossibly complicated and expensive process. We know we won't make it without God's provision. Regardless of your ability to donate your time and finances, we ask that you would cover us and our future child in prayer. Please pray that God would move mountains to bring our baby home.

By contributing to our adoption with your time, money, or prayers, you're becoming a part of our story; a piece of our puzzle. We want to celebrate that with our first fundraiser: for every person (or family) who donates, we'll honor you on our adoption puzzle.

Every year we take a trip to Swan Island Dahlias in Canby to take pictures of the flowers. Our puzzle will feature this picture, which was taken during our visit in 2014.

Here's how it works:

• We've selected a 250 piece puzzle. Each piece will represent one person or family who helped bring our baby home, and your name will be written on the back of your piece.
• The minimum suggested donation to get your name on the back of a puzzle piece is $20, but any amount is appreciated!
• As puzzle pieces are claimed, we'll post pictures of our progress.

If all 250 pieces are sponsored for at at least $20 per piece, we'll have raised $5,000 toward our adoption! Wow! Once every piece is claimed, we'll put the puzzle in a floating frame so the image on the front and the names on the back will be visible. What a blessing it will be for our future child to be able to see all of the people who helped to bring them home!

There are a few ways to participate in this fundraiser:

1. Online: You can donate to our fund securely through our YouCaring donation page, or directly via PayPal.

2. Cash or Check: This can be delivered in-person or by mail (e-mail lynsey.n.bock@gmail.com for our address) 

Any funds we raise above and beyond our final adoption costs (which could vary significantly) will be donated to our church's adoption fund.