God Provides
Our Story
I have wrestled with sharing our story for a multitude of reasons, mostly pride. I’m prideful if I share as it may seem I’m bragging, I am, but not on us, on God. I'm prideful if I don’t share as it keeps God’s blessings, provision behind closed doors and then it would seem we would get the glory. So after weeks of wrestling, here I am.
Our Story; God’s Story.
In 2017, we became Foster Parents. Our first placement, for those who do not know, was very sick. Our motto in foster care, We will love and care for a child as our own for as long as said child is in our home, whether an hour or a lifetime. And we did and we do. We spent countless hours in hospital rooms, doctors offices and away from our jobs. We figure, due to used up paid time off during that time, we lost about $10,000 that year and ultimately, Aaron lost his well paying job with a well known company.
We remained faithful. We stuck true to our motto, our calling. Did we struggle, absolutely. Did God provide, every.single.day. Exceedingly what we could ever fathom.
Fast forward to June 2019.
As many know, we were contacted by an organization called Promise Love Foundation. They provide financial assistance to families who are in the process of adopting. They reached out to us, thanks to our friend, Kelly, as they were looking to venture into assisting foster families in a big way. They started a campaign for us to move into a bigger home. With a bigger home, we would be able to take in another family of foster children. Our goal has always been to keep siblings together. The heart ache from being removed from their parents is enough, let alone lose their siblings too. Our way of making a small difference in a huge broken system is to lessen the trauma of children by keeping them with their siblings.
In the meantime, our licensing agency, A Door of Hope, was contacted by a donor (which brings on more of a God story for another time) who wanted to open up a large home for a family to run with the ability to take in sibling groups to keep them together. Godly, The Executive Director with A Door of Hope, contacted us as he had seen our campaign through Promise Love on Facebook.
And so, we waited. At times, with patience I've never experienced. Others, on our knees, begging God to move faster. But, as always, God's timing is perfect.
August first, we learned our campaign with Promise Love was fully funded. Aaron contacted Godly to see if we were moving forward on our own (four bedroom house, room for three more foster kiddos,as we already have two with us, and we both work full-time) or with A Door of Hope (five bedroom house, room for five more foster kiddos, as we already have two with us, and I become a stay at home mom). We were selected to move forward with A Door of Hope.
In a whirlwind of a couple weeks, I went out with a realtor, Krista Foster, who we met through our Guardian Ad Litem. We found a home we loved and God worked out the details from there. A rental property far and exceedingly above what we could imagine and the ball began to roll very fast.
In the midst of it, Aaron was in a car wreck totally our vehicle we had just been gifted for a price of $450. With a donor coming along side us and paying rent for the next year, we still had the money from the Promise Love campaign. God knew exactly what He was doing. We were able to use the campaign money to purchase a seven passenger vehicle, again far and exceedingly above what we could have imagined.
So, to recap, that's a five bedroom, four bathroom home, with a beautiful enclosed pool area and a Nissan Pathfinder, ALL gifts from God!
ALL of this has been far beyond what we could wrap our heads around. We've cried and cried tears of thankfulness. Only God. Only our faithful provider. Only He could orchestrate this. Only He would provide a home and a vehicle for us to continue the calling He placed on us. ONLY God. And this is the BIG stuff. I can look back over the past year and see how God has prepared us, spared us, renewed us, refined us for such a time as this. Y'all, I couldn't speak a word of this for no other reason than how humbled I've been. To think of how the Lord poured out blessings on us after so many times of struggle...to udder a word...tears, many, many tears, humbled before our God, our Provider.
To Him be the glory!
In the meantime, our licensing agency, A Door of Hope, was contacted by a donor (which brings on more of a God story for another time) who wanted to open up a large home for a family to run with the ability to take in sibling groups to keep them together. Godly, The Executive Director with A Door of Hope, contacted us as he had seen our campaign through Promise Love on Facebook.
And so, we waited. At times, with patience I've never experienced. Others, on our knees, begging God to move faster. But, as always, God's timing is perfect.
August first, we learned our campaign with Promise Love was fully funded. Aaron contacted Godly to see if we were moving forward on our own (four bedroom house, room for three more foster kiddos,as we already have two with us, and we both work full-time) or with A Door of Hope (five bedroom house, room for five more foster kiddos, as we already have two with us, and I become a stay at home mom). We were selected to move forward with A Door of Hope.
In a whirlwind of a couple weeks, I went out with a realtor, Krista Foster, who we met through our Guardian Ad Litem. We found a home we loved and God worked out the details from there. A rental property far and exceedingly above what we could imagine and the ball began to roll very fast.
In the midst of it, Aaron was in a car wreck totally our vehicle we had just been gifted for a price of $450. With a donor coming along side us and paying rent for the next year, we still had the money from the Promise Love campaign. God knew exactly what He was doing. We were able to use the campaign money to purchase a seven passenger vehicle, again far and exceedingly above what we could have imagined.
So, to recap, that's a five bedroom, four bathroom home, with a beautiful enclosed pool area and a Nissan Pathfinder, ALL gifts from God!
ALL of this has been far beyond what we could wrap our heads around. We've cried and cried tears of thankfulness. Only God. Only our faithful provider. Only He could orchestrate this. Only He would provide a home and a vehicle for us to continue the calling He placed on us. ONLY God. And this is the BIG stuff. I can look back over the past year and see how God has prepared us, spared us, renewed us, refined us for such a time as this. Y'all, I couldn't speak a word of this for no other reason than how humbled I've been. To think of how the Lord poured out blessings on us after so many times of struggle...to udder a word...tears, many, many tears, humbled before our God, our Provider.
To Him be the glory!
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