The Tapestry Adoption Assistance Fund
Posted on September 28, 2009 by The Tapestry Team1 Comment
We want to take a moment to tell you a little bit about the Tapestry Adoption Assistance Fund and a recent success story. The fund provides matching grants and/or interest-free covenant loans to families on the adoption journey who find themselves in need of financial assistance.
Because of our partnership with LifeSong for Orphans, every dollar given to the fund has gone directly toward allowing a child to know the love and nurture of a forever family – a family that not only loves them but also loves the Lord.
While our adoption assistance fund is not large (in terms of the balance we have on hand), it has been very active. After all, our goal is not to have a large fund balance – in that sense we are perfectly satisfied to live on the edge of $0. Instead, our goal is to serve an ever growing number of Christian families who are well educated, well supported and able to move forward confidently to meet the financial challenges as they pursue God’s call in their life to welcome a child into their hearts and lives through the miracle of adoption.
Most recently, the Tapestry Adoption Assistance Fund made it possible for Rachel and Scott Whitmire to travel to India to adopt a two year old girl named Aimee. When Rachel and Scott approached us we were deeply moved by their story. Aimee has Down Syndrome and the Whitmires’ adoption process had been expedited in order to allow Aimee to join her family and begin receiving the care she needed as soon as possible. In fact, everything was in place for the Whitmires to travel to India to bring Aimee home, except for one important thing – they did not have the financial resources to do so.
Presented with the opportunity to help Aimee get the care, attention and love that she needed; given the chance to allow Aimee to fall asleep in the arms of a mother, rather than spend another night in an orphanage, the decision was simple. With financial assistance from the Tapestry Fund Rachel and Scott Whitmire brought Aimee home from India on July 22, 2009. Here are a few words Rachel recently wrote:
“Meeting Aimee for the first time was simply amazing. To finally meet that little person after loving her ‘from afar’ for so long – wow, there are just no words! She was very ‘closed off’ when I first met her but within a few days she realized that if she made sounds I would talk back to her, that if she cried I would pick her up and that if she came near to me I would snuggle and play with her. It has been great to watch her little personality unfold. She is just the sweetest little thing.
She’s tiny – only 17 pounds at 26 months old. She’s very much a baby but she’s catching up quickly. She is amazingly determined and surprises us every day with how much she is learning to do. When she came home she didn’t walk at all but now she’s taking 10 to 15 steps at a time. She’s also saying several words in English and does lots of baby signs. All of those things are huge for a child with Down Syndrome – especially since she had very little therapy in India. Go Aimee!
She loves her brothers and has her daddy wrapped around her little finger. I’ll admit I’m a bit smitten too.
We are praising God for the miracle He performed in our lives by leading us to Aimee and providing a way for her to come home even though we couldn’t afford it. He has done some amazing things to bring her home and is continuing to bless us by giving us the privilege of raising this sweet little girl.”
Because of generous support for the Tapestry Adoption Assistance Fund, Aimee and nine other children from the U.S., Ethiopia, Vietnam and India will go to sleep tonight as a member of a forever family, and with a mom and a dad who dearly love them and love Jesus. In addition, the Tapestry Fund is currently helping four other families that are in the process of adopting a total of six other children. Please pray with us that they will each be able to welcome their children home very soon.
As great as these stories are, they are only the beginning – the beginning of how God will continue to bless the lives of these children and their families, to make a difference and to bring glory to His name.
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