Training, Opportunities, and a little bit o’ begging

These last 5 weeks have been pretty amazing. Like pretty life-changing amazing.

Mark and I have had the joy of being trained by the Monroes from Tapestry Ministry over the last 5 weeks. Every Monday, they’ve sent us and a few other couples an email packed with homework assignments, readings, videos to watch, and questions to answer. And, we get to work. Because Saturday is a’ coming when we’ve gotta turn in our assignments and await the next email on Monday.

We’ve read more in the last 5 weeks than we’ve read in a long time. And, it’s all been about kids from hard places and the people who love them and the God who made them all.

And, it’s been amazing.

In a couple weeks, we’ll head on down to Dallas to finish out our training with several days of in-person schooling so that we can come on back to ya’ll on the East Coast and help parents here.

Super exciting stuff to be able to be trained in something we are so passionate about as a couple.

Which brings me to the beggin’ part.

There’s an event in September we’d love to go to so that we can learn more and come home refreshed and ready to serve the people God has called us to serve–Together for Adoption’s national conference in Atlanta.

I entered a wee little contest to try to get us there (of course I did).

But, we need you to help. Would you go to THIS LINK, scroll on down to Video #4 (you’ll see a still image of my sweet baby in her nanny’s arms from the day we received her), click on the little “I like it” circle there and then click on VOTE. That’s it – no signing up or signing in. Takes 2 seconds. (If you have a few more seconds free, watch our video. It’s 70 seconds to be exact and is the equivalent of a video plea, if you will.)

The video with the most votes as of Saturday the 14th (like this coming Saturday…ah man…could we actually win this???) wins an all expense trip to the conference. Which would pretty much rule. Yup. It would.

Can you vote everyday this week and help us get there? Maybe even broadcast it to all your friends, neighbors, grocery store check-out person…you get the point. (I may get a little desperate by the end of the week…)

Okay, back to our Empowered to Connect homework.