Two weekends ago we had a garage sale to benefit our adoption. We didn’t envision anything huge for this one, it would just be us selling our castoffs for our adoption. As we prepared for the sale, we looked over our fairly small pile and honestly forgot that the Lord is a God who loves to make much out of our little. The week of the sale the Lord multiplied our stock of items several times over…not even through our solicitation for donations but His creative initiative.
His “much” exceeded our expectations, leaving our jaws dropped. In our one day, 7 hour sale the Lord brought in just over $1000!!!
Much thanks is due to our gracious hosts David and Anna Scharff who let us totally take over their garage for a week and who worked their tales off unloading, organizing, pricing, schmoozing with customers, calculating change on miniscule amounts of sleep and dealing with the leftovers. Thank you, we love you so much!
And thank you to Cheryl Smith for keeping Callie and Luke so David and Anna could devote themselves to the yard sale.
Thank you Pat and Jenni Miles for donating your unclaimed belongings one your way to begin your new adventure in the Dominican Republic. Thank you Dawn Gross, Brian & Amy Schaffernoth and Shannon for donating items to the sale.
And thank you Jim and Monique Lea for letting us use your moving truck.
The funds brought in through the sale take us about half way to our homestudy which will be the first official step of our adoption process. We are so encouraged by what the Lord has done in this!
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