Give1Save1 Posted about over 9 years ago

We are excited to be the Give1Save1 featured family of the week :]Visit http://www.giveonesaveone.blogspot.com/2014/09/welcome-vankoevering-family.html to learn more about how you can help spread the word so we can reach as many people as possible.[If you have already supported us we ask only that you share and help get our story to as many people as we can this week]Thanks for all your love an...

We are a family of 6!! Posted about over 9 years ago

We passed court!!Christabel is officially a VanKoevering.Now we wait through a few months of paperwork & approvals.And soon [but not soon enough] we will bring her HOME!!Thank you to all who have loved us through prayer & donations.What a mighty God we serve!!

August UPDATE! Posted about over 9 years ago

Well...on Monday morning the call we have been waiting for came.We are going to Ghana...TOMORROW!!! [August 9]I don't really remember much of Monday...it is a blur.We needed to get our visa applications sent out so I focused on that.They were over-nighted to the Consulate of Ghana in Houston Texas...[and on Wednesday morning prior to 930am they were in our hands]Next came flights. I emailed the...

July Update Posted about almost 10 years ago

Well...after a VERY long wait we finally got the signature we had been waiting for!!!!Which means we finally have our official referral.After knowing our sweet girl for over a year...and 9 months into our adoption process...she is one step closer to having our last name!!All of this news came with a couple bummers.First, when looking over the referral documents we noticed that "C"s birth date w...

a-MAY-zing news!! Posted about almost 10 years ago

We have reached our Program fee #1 goal...which means our dossier is going to be sent to Ghana this week!!!Up next...the rest of the agency fee and Program fee #2. These will both be due when we receive our official referral. We are praying that once our dossier is in Ghana things will move quickly and we will get to travel and FINALLY meet our sweet girl...and then she will FINALLY have our la...

May UPDATE [alittle early] Posted about about 10 years ago

As we head into May we find we have accomplished a lot, but we still feel V E R Y far from the finish line.We [and when I say we I mean Shannon] have finally compiled all the necessary documents to complete our dossier. It has been state sealed and hand delivered to our agency this morning.Unfortunately, without the payment of country fee #1 they will not be able to send the dossier on to Ghana...

Be Strong and Couragous [april UPDATE} Posted about about 10 years ago

Well...another month has come and gone. We have been working on getting all our paperwork [also known as our dossier] together so it can be sent off to Ghana. We had gotten everything together and were just waiting for our passports to arrive. We were excited when they were pulled from the mailbox yesterday...only to discover that Cam's is wrong and needs to be re-issued :[I will admit that I w...

March Update!!! Posted about about 10 years ago

WOW!!I am happy to announce that we have reached our first goal!!*if we add money we have saved, and money from necklace sales*[follow our blog where our goal progress is kept up to date]psalm-139-14.blogspot.comWith the help of so many who love us and our sweet girl we reached our goal and then some :]and...exactly on the date we had hoped to reach it.It has been an amazing out pouring of love...

Small goals Posted about about 10 years ago

So I have decided that instead of focusing on the BIG number. I am going to break it down into small goals.First goal. Program fee #1$5150We are already more than half way there.Once we reach this goal...we will move on to Program fee #2.Small goals.One step at a time.

February UPDATE Posted about about 10 years ago

So...we are still waiting for our home study to be approved by our agency.They go over it with a fine tooth comb to make sure all the needed information is in there.All the i's are dotted and t's are crossed...and then when it is perfect...they will sign it andput it in our hands. Then we can move forward with all the things that need the home study.USCIS.Grants.Dossier.Also, when this is hande...

January UPDATE! Posted about over 10 years ago

No major updates so far this year.We had our last homestudy visit on December 31st.Now we wait for our social worker to write up the finished homestudy and then we can take the next step which is to apply with US Immigration. We will also start applying for several grants, and focusing more time on fundraising. All in all it will cost somewhere between 30 and 40 thousand dollars to get our swe...

December: UPDATE :] Posted about over 10 years ago

Just wanted to update...although there is not much to update.We had our first homestudy visit and will have our homestudydone on January 3! This is a huge step and is needed for all the other things/forms we have to file as we move forward. So we are excited to be working on this important part of the journey."C" has a follow up visit at the FOCOS hospital on Dec. 17[we had originally been told...

UPDATE: November :] Posted about over 10 years ago

We want to thank everyone who has already chosen to be a part of our daughters story!"C" had surgery to repair her Spina Bifida lesion on November 12th. Her surgery lasted about 4 hours and was a huge success! She was up and moving around within 2 days...she clearly did not get the "you just had a complex spine surgery"memo. She remains at the FOCOS hospital, and we can't wait for her to be wel...