Sunday, October 3, 2010

One Adoptive Family Helping Another: Sophia's Birthday Gift to Our Missing Linck!

One of the really cool things about this adoption journey so far, is that John and I have had the chance to meet some wonderful couples and the kiddos they have adopted from Ethiopia. The other totally cool thing is that these families sort of become your extended "adoption" family. They know what you are going through, will pray for you, encourage you and they just travel this adoption road with you.
Yesterday our friends Katie and Michael (who adopted a sweet little girl from Ethiopia earlier this year) told us they wanted to have a fundraiser for our adoption.....please read the letter that Katie sent to her friends and family. We are so blessed and humbled that they want to help us bring home our Missing Linck! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Morris Family! And a BIG Happy Birthday to Miss. Sophia!!


Friends and family,
Our little Sophia is growing up so quickly! She will be one on October 12. We are celebrating in a BIG way and we want YOU to be a part of it!!!
We believe God calls Christians to care for orphans. Adoption is one way He uses us to care for His children. I LOVE reading adoption stories and especially love seeing how God provides the funding for adoptions. He provided for our adoption of Sophia in so many amazing ways. We never could have paid for her adoption on our own. So many of our family and friends gave their hard earned money to help bring her home and we are so thankful. You have no idea!
We know that it wasn’t too long ago that many of you helped with our adoption, but we are asking for you to give a little of your money to help bring another Ethiopian baby home to his or her forever family.
You see, we have some friends who are adopting from Ethiopia and we want to help them out. They are in the fundraising stage and are hoping to turn their application in on October 25, their 2nd wedding anniversary. They want to have all of the money for the fees raised ($18,000) before they submit the application. God has already provided in HUGE ways for them and it has been a blessing to watch.
So, back to Sophia’s birthday CELEBRATION!!!!! We are asking all of our friends, family, blogland buddies, total strangers, etc. to donate to the Linck’s adoption fund in Sophia’s name. If you know Sophia and she has brought joy to your life, would you please consider giving $5 or more, so Baby Linck can come home? If you don’t know her, but know how precious children are, would you donate money, as well?
For every $5 you donate, we will enter your name into a drawing for a prize. We will have a drawing when $100 has been donated and then again at $200, $300, etc. The more you donate the bigger your chance is to win.
The first prize is a brand new copy of “The Hole in Our Gospel”, by Richard Stearns.
Would you like an additional chance to win? If you donate money AND do a blog or facebook post about this, then your name will be entered an additional time. Make sure you comment on my blog and let me know you posted about it.
To donate, please go here: http://journeyfromethiopia.chipin.com/lincks-adoption-fund. You are also welcome to write a check or pay with cash, if you will be seeing one of us in the near future.
“‘Then the righteous will answer him, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’” (Matthew 25:37-40)
For more information on John and Jennifer Linck, please visit their blog http://ourmissinglinck.blogspot.com/
Thank you so much for reading this long message and for your consideration in helping John and Jennifer bring home their "Missing Linck". I am so excited to see how God will use Sophia's life to help bring an orphan home to their forever family!
Thanks, Katie!

To make a donation for Sophia's Birthday, go here

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