100 Times 100 Challenge

Hi Friends,

If you are reading this you have likely been personally invited to take part in our 100 Times 100 Challenge.  As many of you know we are in the process of adopting two children from China and we are leaving very soon to go get them, likely by the end of June.  What you may not know is that we are currently about $10,000 short of funds needed to bring them home.  Honestly it may be a little more or less, but until we get home we won't know how much the travel costs were.

So thinking through the numbers we thought, if we can find 100 people that would be willing to donate $100, that would equal the $10,000 we need.  Now we know that for some of you $100 will be a stretch and we don't want you to put yourself in a place where you can't care for your own family.  So if you are not able to help, no big deal because we know in the end the Lord has this.  But we also know that for some of you $100 is not a big request and you can likely donate larger amounts.  So we ask that you consider this as well.

If you haven't been following our journey on Facebook (or maybe you aren't on Facebook), let me share our children with you.

Madilyn Grace VanderMeer

Madilyn Grace is 6 years old.  Her Birthday was in April.  She currently lives in Guangxi Province, in Nanning.  We will be getting Maddy first on our travels and spending between 3-5 days in her province.  She is supposedly an extroverted little girl that loves to read, we are really looking forward to meeting her and bringing her home.

Micah Samuel VanderMeer

Micah Samuel will be turning 5 in November, He lives in Guangzhou, which is in Guangdong Province.  When we finalize all our adoption paperwork it will be in Guangzhou, which makes it convenient for us to be able to not have to travel to a separate province to pick up our second child.  Micah is also an extroverted child, and is supposedly energetic.



We don't know if this fundraiser will work.  It may just fall on its face like many other fundraisers we have tried, but we need to try.  We know either way we will be leaving in late June or early July to go get our kids.  If we need to find a way to front the balance of the funds we will, we know that somehow or other the Lord will provide even thought at times it seems a bit scary.

If you are willing to join us with our 100 Times 100 Challenge, donations can be made at the following link.  http://www.projecthopeful.org/matched-families/vandermeer-family.  We are grateful to be partnered with Project Hopeful in order to allow our supporters to receive a tax deduction for their gift.

If you decide to join us, we ask that after you make your donation you write a note to Micah and Maddy.  This could come in the form of an email, a letter, or a Facebook message.  We intend to collect all of these and read them with our kids when they get a little older.  Thank you so much for helping us get to the finish line, we know many of you have given already and sacrificed a lot to get us to this point and we are SO appreciative.

Thank you and God Bless,

Matthew and Amanda