Dear Family and Friends, Some of you know we have felt called and directed by God to adopt “fatherless” children into our family. We are adopting another child or children from Ethiopia sometime in the next 4 – 8 months!
You may be wondering what has prompted us to adopt again. Primarily, we’ve felt so clearly directed by God to adopt that we want to obey Him, and we also desire to give an orphan child a family that he probably won’t otherwise have. God desires for orphans of all nations to be loved, cared for and adopted into Christian families – ultimately so they can become saved, and be adopted into His eternal family through Jesus Christ! There are so many things God has used to prick our hearts and move us to adopt, here are a few:
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction… James 1:27
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will – Ephesians 1:5
The facts are staggering how many children are orphaned each day- we’re talking thousands! 43,000 children become orphans each day & nearly 11 million children die each year before their 5th birthday. Ezra Abera has been a joy to have as our child and we are wanting to live a life of faith and extend our home to more children who are in such desperate, life-threatening situations.
The biggest challenge for us is not opening our hearts and home to another child, but it is in finding the finances to make this happen. Thankfully we serve a Great and Mighty God who will supply everything we need to live the life of faith He calls us to. We estimate our total cost for adoption fees, document preparation, home study, airfare, travel, attorney fees, etc. to be between $22,000 - $26,000- that’s certainly money we don’t have, but we know God is faithful and is leading us to trust Him. By God’s grace $10,500 of the total $22,000 to $26,000 has already been used to start this long journey of international adoption.
Honestly, it is difficult (because of our pride), to make our needs known to the Body of Christ around us, but we also know it’s very biblical to do so. We appreciate your love and friendship very much and would like you to pray & consider helping us by taking part in this adoption. There are two ways you can help:
1. Prayer – Please pray God would continue to encourage and exhort our hearts to live a life of faith and to be risk-takers for the glory of God. Also, please pray for our hearts to sacrificially love the child or children God graciously provides for us.
2. Financial support - Will you please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help us pay the remaining $11,500 - $16,500 in adoption expenses, to bring our child(ren) home from Ethiopia?
If you would like to be a part of God bringing our child(ren) to Himself through our family, you can send your tax-deductible donation to our adoption agency. Christian World Adoption is a trusted organization administering the funds on our behalf, and will pay adoption expenses out of funds received. If you want to learn more about the organization we are using in our adoption, please visit their website @ www.cwa.org .
1. Please make checks payable to: Christian World Foundation. You may preference how the donation might be used by writing “Greenup family Adoption” in the memo line of your check.
(*Note: In following IRS guidelines, your donation is to Christian World Foundation, which retains full discretion and control over its use.)
2. Mail checks to:
Christian World Foundation
Attn: Greenup family adoption
777 South Allen Road
Flat Rock, NC 28731
3. Online Donation: If you would prefer to give via the internet,
a. Click this link or type it into your browser https://www.cwa.org/DonationForm.aspx
b. Fill out ‘Donor Information’ Section
c. Under the ‘Specify Donation’ drop down menu, select ‘General Fund’
d. Next, under the ‘optional’ menu, select ‘CWA family’ and input the information below
Dustin & Heidi Greenup
2827 W. Sanson
Spokane WA 99205
If you have any follow up questions, please don’t hesitate to call us, email us, facebook us, text us!!!
Thank you for investing in the Kingdom through prayer and finances – it will be an investment with an eternal return!
For the glory of Christ Jesus,
Dustin, Heidi, Ezra and Olivia
