Come Watch a 2.5 Minute Video About Adoption Passalong Cards!

First, we are so grateful to all of you for sharing our initial blog link on your Facebook walls and via messages. The beautiful responses and support from everyone has kept smiles on our faces for the last month. And okay, okay – we know we specifically said monthly updates, and this is coming at 3 weeks, but we just got our adoption passalong cards in the mail!

1)    We would love it if you would please “join” the event we launched today from our Facebook page.  What’s the event? Letty made a super-cute 2.5 minute Storyboard Video explaining adoption passalong cards – which we are asking all of our friends and family to help us pass out! You should have an invitation to the event in your inbox, or you can click on this link to go there directly and join it.

2)   Please also post the link to this page to your FB timeline so people can find it that way.

http://waitingwishingprayingupdates.blogspot.com/2013/11/come-watch-25-minute-video-storyboard.html

If you would like a digital file or some passalong cards (Letty ordered a few thousand) let us know how many (5, 10, 25 or more!) and we will get them in the mail to you the next day! At the very least, it’s great to keep an adoption passalong card in your wallet, because you never know when you might need it!

Love, Letty and Richard

Announcing the Launch of Our Adoption Blog

Dear Friends and Family-

We are writing to ask you to keep us in your prayers and help us reach out to birth parents who might be considering making an adoption plan. We offer some simple suggestions, like posting our blog link on your wall, on how you can do that in the message below.

Background

We have always wanted to raise several children. Earlier this year we experienced two failed In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) surgeries as the conclusion to several years of medical attempts to have children. We are still passionate about becoming parents and are excited to have finished all the required training and certifications to be eligible to adopt.

How You Can Help

We are pursuing adoption in two ways:  our adoption agency and through private placement.  Currently the waiting list for adoption thru LDS Family Services averages about 3 years (our case worker told us in 2012 they only had about 300 babies available to place nationwide). We ask that you pray for us.

Successful private placement is all about making contact with the maximum number of potential birth parents.  We hope that, through your friends, you can help us connect with individuals we would not otherwise meet.  Our goal is to get the address of our adoption blog and our contact information to as many people as possible, FLOODING every social media platform.  Here are a few ways you can help us make this happen.  

• Send a short message via Facebook and/or e-mail (example below) with our adoption blog link (http://www.WaitingWishingPraying.blogspot.com) to all of your friends with whom you feel comfortable doing so.
• Like our FB page at http://www.facebook.com/waitingwishingpraying and invite your friends to like it too!
• Post a message with the adoption blog link on your Facebook timeline, Twitter feeds, etc.
• If you are a blogger, grab the button from our adoption blog to post on yours.

We will be updating the adoption blog and sending updates on our progress every month or two.  We hope that you will be willing to share blog updates as well. If you would prefer to NOT receive any more messages about this, please let us know.

Example Message To Post:
My friends are hoping to adopt! If you or someone you know is considering making an adoption plan for their baby, please check out their adoption blog www.waitingwishingpraying.blogspot.com a the link below. And feel free to repost this on your own timeline if you wish to help spread the word!

Thanks in advance for all your help, the few minutes you spend will make all the difference for us.

Sincerely,

Richard and Letty Goering