New Week: Welcome the Brandt Family

Happy Monday! Hope you had a wonderful weekend! Welcome our featured family of the week - the Brandt family! Heather and Alan Brandt have two children,  Colin (6), who was adopted from Russia in 2008, and Dara (2), who was adopted domestically in 2011. After hosting  a brother and sister from Latvia last year at Christmas, they began the process to make them part of their forever family.  You can follow the Brandts’ adoption journey on their blog.

How You Can Help

1. PRAY for the Brandts' adoption of their son and daughter.

2. SHARE their video via Twitter, Blog, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, etc. Please help us spread the word!  The Brandts are traveling this week for their first of three trips to Latvia to adopt their son and daughter! We want to help them raise the money to give these kids a forever family and a home!

3. GIVE $1 (or more if you feel led.) The Brandts have a matching grant! Every dollar you give will be doubled! There are two ways to give tax deductible gifts towards the Brandts' matching grant from Lifesong for Orphans (up to $3,000 total will be matched) and 100% (minus processing fees will be given towards their adoption expenses).

Update: We have raised $69 to help the Brandts bring home their son and daughter!

Option #1:  Go online towww.lifesongfororphans.org/give/donate. Select “Give to an Adoptive Family.” Complete the online form and “Fill in Family Account Number” with #3647 and “Family Name” with Brandt. Please select “Adoption Funding” for your Gift Preference and select “Family Specific” for your Adoption Gift Preference. (Note: Paypal charges a fee of 2.9% + $.30 USD per transaction. Your gift will be decreased by this amount.)

Option #2:  Donate online at Pure Charity. Just click the picture below to be taken to the Brandts donation page. (Note: 5% fee will be charged per each donation on Pure Charity.) You can also do your online shopping through Pure Charity and a percentage of your purchase can be given to the Brandts adoption fundraiser! Stores include Priceline, Groupon, Walmart, Target, and 100s more!

For more information about orphan hosting, check out Project 143 Orphans, Children's Cultural Connection, and New Horizons for Children.



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Adopting from Europe and want to be a family of the week? Send me an email at give1save1europe (at) gmail.com and I'll send you an email explaining how to apply!