Fundraising Goods

Here are the items we are selling right now for fundraisers. We have the bracelets also in chocolate brown as well.  They are $25

These are $15 and come in silver and grey and gold and brown. Perfect for a guy or girl!

These are our tshirts. We have sizes from youth xsmall- adult XL. Children's shirts are $15 and adults sizes are $20.

If you would like to order you may either send me a check in the mail to:

Hannah Hough 

161 Albert Ave, Shreveport, LA 71105

or you can pay through our paypal donate button at the top right. Just put in the comments what you want and what size you need if ordering tshirts and leave me your address. 

Thanks, the Houghs

April Number

We got our new number for April. We are number.....

We were trying to keep our expectations down so we only thought we would move three spots from the referrals that we knew of, but we moved an extra spot.  Yeah! We are out of the 100s. So thankful.  This wait list thing is slow progress but that's better than no progress. We are praying for many referrals this month.  Pray with us. God is able! :)

~ The Houghs

Big News

So, the garage sale was a huge success.  Thank you to everyone that participated and helped. There is no way that we could have done it without you.  We made almost $3000 and still have a garage full. We will probably have another garage sale in May or so since we have so much left.  The Lord was truly good to us.

We have big news.  I have just not had a peace about the length of time that we would be waiting to receive a referral for an infant. I had been losing sleep and had been anxious. This thing called adoption is an ever changing ever sanctifying experience.  For my own selfish reasons and I had wanted a baby girl to dress and relive what I felt I had missed in not having a little girl of my own, so that is one reason that we had decided on an infant.  I know, it's sad. I'm being very transparent here. I'm selfish!!! Seeing all the people on our waiting list and getting to know them through Facebook, I saw all these families that either could not have children and were willing to wait however long for an infant or on the other end of the spectrum, families, that would adopt a child as old as they could.  Either one is awesome! One less orphan, right? Well, I have been able to have my own babies, and don't get me wrong, I LOVE babies, but I just didn't have a peace, like I said before. So, the other day I mentioned to my husband about raising our age range.  He was totally on board.  We feel like there are so many unwanted older children in Ethiopia and their likelihood of being adopted is far less than those of infants.  We had always felt like adopting out of birth order was a bad thing and would "mess" things up, but I've seen families that adopt out of order and what a blessing it is to them. We talked to the kids and they were totally on board.  We do feel that we shouldn't go older than our oldest, though.  He takes being the big brother very seriously, but who knows, that may change in the future too.  So we are now saying one or two children 0-5 with minor/correctable disabilities.  Please pray for us as this opens us up to more possibilities and shorter wait times and more money. :) But, God is able, Is He not? We are praying that He would continue to provide.

Show Hope Grant

We received a $5000 grant from Show Hope for our adoption. We were blown away by the amount considering we didn't think we would get anything.  The Lord is making a way to bring our daughter home. We have $11,000 more to raise to be able to complete our adoption. Please pray for us as we have about a year to raise the remaining funds. We know the Lord will provide.

We have our big garage sale/bake sale this Friday and Saturday and we are hoping to raise $1000 from all the donations that we have received.  Thanks so much to our friends and family that have donated. We are so blessed by your generosity.  It has been a lot of work, but we know it will be worth it.  It's amazing how supportive you have all been.  

Please specifically pray for me, that I would have patience.  This process is so long and hard. Pray that I will seek His face and trust His timing.  

My prayer this week is "Lord, help me to wait well and trust your timing to bring Our Girl home"

Hannah


A song that has encouraged me this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EufaligPigU