Bringing Home The Newest Smith: Fundraising Update: July 2016

Since the overall cost of our adoption is pretty overwhelming ($40-50K), we decided to break our fundraising amounts into smaller goals to keep us motivated and give us a sense of accomplishment. :)

So, with that said, our first of four goals is $7,400!! This amount will pay for our application, homestudy, (a homestudy is required by law. A social worker visits our home and will interview each of us, and make an overall assessment of the life, home, environment our adopted child will be entering into. This takes around 2-4 months to complete.), and our U.S. Processing Fee (covers our agency's cost to facilitate our adoption with agency and government officials in both the United States and Korea. Processing expenses include — but are not limited to — personnel costs, administrative overhead, operational costs, staff training and education, communications and publications costs. This fee also covers all registration and translation costs related to submitting our dossier once we are matched with a child.)

We have already raised $2,446!! God is so good! He has seriously worked through several of our friends and family to help bring our sweet baby home!

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Since we are talking about fundraising, we have wrapped up our first fundraiser! Our t-shirts have been ordered and delivered! We LOVE them!! (Don't worry if you wanted a shirt and missed this opportunity, we will be ordering more on July 17th! Let us know if you want one!!) We raised $1,046 through the t-shirt fundraiser so far. :)