Off we go!

Our family is going to Uganda!

I'll be sharing more as we prepare to leave and while we are there, but since bringing our boys home, we have loved Uganda and longed to be there. We've committed as a family to make trips to this place we love as often as we can to spend time there with family and friends. Our family gets to be there for a couple months this trip! We found out that while we are there, there is a ministry we love that we could help. We began dreaming and praying how we could help them and God immediately brought my beautiful community through blogging & social media to mind. He has used you all so much to build wells, fund generators, provide food to children who desperately needed it, and find children forever families. I'm so excited to see how He uses you here.

Prior to us meeting and adopting them, our older boys were loved and cared for at Redeemer House. Maybe you remember the pictures where we road tripped from the Chicago area to Oregon to meet up with other families that had brought home children who had lived at Redeemer House? It was a beautiful reunion of these children who had lived together as brothers and sisters at the orphanage.

Redeemer House reunion 2013

The long story (kind of) short is that we love this ministry. They have Ugandans leading and running the home, they believe in resettlement with the families whenever possible and they are living out the love of the gospel with the children in their care, as well as their community. They have been praying for land and a house of their own for years and it is happening now! When we said we would be in Uganda during this time and help with whatever we could, they were so grateful.

The village where the new Redeemer House is does not have a school, electricity or a nearby clean water source. Redeemer house has plans for a school in the near future, recently had electric poles placed for the new home that the rest of the community can get electricity from now and is currently raising money for their fresh water well which will be able to also be used by their village surrounding them! I know it is hard to imagine, but many villages still use water collected from low-lying areas--swamp water--for their everyday needs. They use it for everything from their animals, to bathing, to boiling it to drink and cook. This well on Redeemer House property will be a huge blessing to many!

So, this is where you come in. The home has to have a brick wall perimeter for safety of the children, the livestock & for the future on-campus school. They have been fundraising for the wall (bricks) and the well (buckets) and our family has decided to join in with a big goal!

We're looking for 800 people to give $25 each to reach our goal of $20,000! 

Our home building business, Crusader Homes, is matching all giving dollar for dollar up to $20,000. That will finish their wall and the well! Your $25 donation will become $50 instantly!

Our family hopes to be there as these projects are happening and we will be helping put the final touches on the new home for them prior to their move in date this Fall. I'll be updating on the progress of the fundraising and the projects mostly as @letlovegrow on Instagram. Would you join me in joyfully giving $25 now? Let's use our bucks for these bricks and buckets so that Redeemer House can continue their beautiful ministry!

Give any amount through the button below & it will go directly to xHope's (the parent ministry of Redeemer House) paypal account. Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar. All donations are tax exempt to the extent provided by the law.

Please join us by giving your BUCKS to Redeemer House's

BRICKS & BUCKETS campaign to build their security wall & get a 

fresh water well!

The beautiful, new Redeemer House property with the already funded front wall and guard shack.