Dear Friends and Family:
You are receiving this message because I want to allow you the opportunity to be part of what God is doing in our ministry at Addy’s Hope Adoption Agency! There are many exciting things on the horizon for Addy’s Hope as God confirms again and again. Two of the biggest are becoming a contracted agency with the Texas Department of Children and Family Services in order to place children waiting in the Texas foster system into loving, Christian adoptive homes; and the start of Midland/Odessa’s only teen maternity home.
There are several ways you can be part of what is happening at Addy’s Hope. The first is to visit our website at www.addyshope.org and sign up for our newsletter. We promise we will not fill your inbox! In fact, we have made a promise as a board that we will only send out a quarterly newsletter in order to keep you updated on the developments of these and all other happenings with Addy’s Hope.
Second, and most importantly, we need your prayer support. John and I have been doing ministry long enough to know the importance of prayer covering, especially during times of new developments for projects and programs that will change lives like those we are currently beginning. We covet your prayers for the financial blessings we need to operate, the volunteers we need to carry out many of these tasks, and the children and families that God brings to us to connect. We also covet your prayers for our family as we always see the intensity of the spiritual warfare increase during times of growth for the agency.
Third, if you know of families considering adopting or mothers in crisis considering adoption as a loving option, please send them our information!
Finally, we are in need of your financial donations to move forward in all God has called us to do. Years ago as God prepared me for the direction He was taking Addy’s Hope, He planted me in Isaiah 54 with this scripture: “Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; Lengthen your cords and strengthen your pegs. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess nations and will resettle the desolate cities.” As I have personally prayed over the maternity home and the waiting child program, God has taken me back to this scripture many times in the recent months. In order for us to stretch out we must lengthen our cords and strengthen our pegs as Isaiah says. We must have a firm foundation on which to build these programs. As we have discussed this as a board, all members have agreed that our debt from maintaining the Liberian orphanage during the adoption moratorium must be paid off. Our current debt is $9,963. We are asking anyone who feels led to donate whatever amount they can to eliminate this remaining debt and allow us to move forward with a firm foundation in all God is asking us to do. Would you be a part of Project Firm Foundation? Will you be a brick in our foundation that will forever change the lives of children and young pregnant teens? No amount is too small! We can pay this off one dollar at a time if we need to. We are believing God for the entire amount to be donated in the next 6 weeks. You can donate by sending your donation to Addy’s Hope, P.O. Box 9161, Midland, TX 79708 or online through PayPal at www.addyshope.org – just look for the donate button at the bottom of the page. All donations are tax deductible as we are a 501c3 organization, and you have my personal promise that every dollar donated and designated for Project Firm Foundation will go directly to this debt.
If you are committing to us in prayer, would you e-mail me and let me know that as well? I know it sounds cliché, but at times of greatest conflict in our ministry, I truly feel the prayers of those warriors going to battle for us on their knees. It is during these times that prayer truly is what sustains me.
Thank you for taking the time to read about this exciting time at Addy’s Hope! If you have friends or family that you feel would be interested in what we are doing in our ministry, would you please pass this along to them? We would love to add them to our e-mail list for our newsletter.
Being obedient to The Call,
HollyAnn Petree
432.897.1503
www.addyshope.com
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