THANK YOU FOR YOUR PAMPERED CHEF ORDER!!
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Colleen Young and I have been a Pampered Chef Consultant for the past couple of years. It has really been just a fun hobby for me that has brought in some extra income here and there for me and my husband. But now, this “extra income” is serving an amazing purpose: it is helping bring home our first child (or children). Adam and I are adopting!
Adam and I started doing missions work with our church almost six years ago. Our church became involved in Moldova, the poorest country in Eastern Europe, where we started ministering to a small orphanage that is home to about 100 kids. Since our first trip, our lives have not been the same. We knew we were carrying the burden to adopt and God started piecing together necessary steps that we needed to make. Over these last 6 years He has been paving the way for us to start a family and we know without a doubt that adoption from Moldova is His will for us.
We are in the very beginning stages of our adoption process and have a long road ahead. The youngest child that we will be able to bring home is 2 years old. We are also praying about adopting a sibling group, which means our family could instantly double
Our prayer is to be good stewards of our money and to utilize some of the avenues He has already placed us in. One of those avenues is my Pampered Chef business~ 100% of my commission that I make from your order will go into our adoption savings account that will be utilized to offset the accruing fees. Our fees include social work fees, government fees, travel expenses (we will need to travel twice to Moldova when our child is ready to come home), and the list goes on. So, throughout this process, I will be doing as much as I can through Pampered Chef to raise money for our adoption fees.
Some facts about Moldova:
- It is located between Romania and the Ukraine and received its’ independence in the mid-90’s.
- With that independence, came an incredible economic decline. Most of the children who are orphans are abandoned because the parents just can’t take care of them and go abroad to find work.
- Moldova is a hub for human trafficking of young girls and women. They are often deceived into thinking they are being recruited to find jobs at restaurants or travel agencies.
Thank you for being part of us starting our family! We are grateful and beyond appreciative. Check out our blog: www.adamandcolleenyoung.blogspot.com to follow us through the next year and a half. I’d love to hear from you!
Followed by a message from a friend and fellow pastor, David Klindinst...I even went to high school with this guy and he goes WAY back with Adam and Nima in youth group...small world right!
Last year at this time...Alicia realized Paul was the man God had for her...and now just a year later they are married! So exciting to see God's plan as in unfolded in their lives before our very eyes!
