Our Weekly Adoption Goal! Can You Help Us Meet This Weeks Goal To Help Bring Our Girl Home?

THIS WEEKS GOAL FROM 5/8/12 THRU 5/15/12 IS A TOTAL OF $4550.00 OR AIRLINE MILES FOR JOE, KOLYA & NICOLE'S FLIGHT AND TAYLORS RETURN FLIGHT HOME.  YES KOLYA IS GOING WITH! HE HAS WAITING SO LONG FOR A SISTER AND HE AIN'T MISSING THIS! 

We are breaking it down to weekly goals to meet in order to tackle one area at a time of the adoption.  Will you help us meet that weekly goal? Kolya's birthday is May 15th and he asked  us to adopt "Taylor" and bring her home for his birthday! Can you help us make this happen?

 We want to share with you the remaining expenses we have left to fund Taylor's adoption.  We want everyone that helps us and her by being in prayer and/or makes a tax-deductible donation to follow us every step of the way.  We could not do this without you!

We have already paid for the complete dossier and again it is submitted in country.  So we have no time to loose!  We are in need of raising a total sum of $26,000.00 to bring her home.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation towards our weekly goal for our travel to bring Taylor home please click on either image or "donate" button below.  WE CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH! 

 

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With each purchase you make for one or more of their lovely items it with help us bring our lovely girl home!

This is how you can view the gorgeous items that are made all over the world in order to help support bringing Taylor home:

1)  Order directly through: www.kristinharvey.noondaycollection.com

2)  At the top of the checkout page, select “Kristin Harvey” from the ambassador drop down box.

3)  At the bottom of the checkout page, in the box after FOR AMBASSADOR USE: TRUNK SHOW type in “Dewberry" so the funds are specifically sent to the Dewberrys for Taylors adoption.

TAKE A PEEK BELOW AT SOME OF THEIR BEAUTIFUL ITEMS NICOLE WEARS DAILY TO HELP SUPPORT NOONDAY COLLECTION AND WHAT THEY REPRESENT!

Why A Child That Is HIV+ And There Are So Many To Adopt Without???

Today I was mailed actually an email by a concerned individual in regards to us adopting a girl we know that has HIV.  The woman was not unpleasant at all and I so appreciate her concern for our family in us diving into adopting a girl with HIV.  

For those of you who ask why would we adopt a girl with HIV when there are so many children to adopt without. 

Here is my answer......

We're jumping either way to Taylor.  God divinely called us to adopt her SPECIFICALLY.  We tried negotiating our way out of adopting in Ukraine again with God and well it did not work.  Everytime he pointed us to her we backed up to make sure if was not our own desires of feeling specifically lead to adopt this girl.  Again God won that one too!  God lead us to her....period.  I use to work with children with HIV and am very well aware of the losses because I did loose a girl I worked with that had AIDS when I was in high school.  But our lives do not have a timer...God will take us when he takes us HIV positive or not.  We cannot negoicate out of it.  There are orphans all over the world why should I be the one to say because they have CP, DS, HIV, AIDS, TB they are not worthy to be adopted.  That is not my call.  Didn't God the creator allow these diseases to surface to begin with.  I think he's looking to see who will step up to the plate to adopt these special needs children.  Another way I look at it is I would rather adopt a child and give them the love they deserve and desire then not risk to adopt and love and they die alone.  Plain and simple.  No matter how you flip this coin of us adopting Taylor her chances of survival if we do not go are grim.  She is medicated now and doing well.  Her future is an institution with no chance of adoption once she arrives there.  If she should be released and on her own she will have a stipend and medication to make it.  But you give a 16 year old kid and tell them to take their medication and let's see how long that kid and that medication stay together!  She will either "Feel OK" and not take it and could loose her life or sell it to make money to eat beacause she will be unable to find a job because not only is she labeled as an orphan but also and orphan with HIV.  Then she is broke and in trade school living in a hospital turned into a dorm with no supervision nor anyone to make sure she takes her medication and again this is if she is released to trade school and not living her forever life in an institution now what does she do?  A nice gentleman shows up and sees this pretty girl and offers to care for her.  Before she knows it she is in over her head either being sold into sex trade or becomes a prostitute.  So no matter again how you flip this coin....she gets moved into an institution, she goes to trade school and does or does not take her meds her future is GRIM.......Grim to nothing.  So do we take that chance of adopting her knowing perfectly well we are adopting a girl the Lord very well could take away from us.  YES!  No ones time here is negotiable. 

We refuse to walk away from a child because of their diagnosis.  Should God take take a child we adopt, I would rather him take them in our arms with the love of a mother, father and brother then not to feel that at all.

It's worth it!  Our loss his gain!

WHO ARE THESE DEWBERRYS....?

The Dewberrys live to surround themselves with the lost and forgotten youth. Joe and Nicole have been in youth ministry working with at-risk youth together for 13 years and Nicole for 18 years. Nicole from a young age new she was always called to adopt when she married. Thankfully God put that upon her heart because once they met and married they were unable to have children of their own. So they became foster parents and poured their lives into children in need of guidance and also helped families that came to them in search of help with their children. At their church when they lived in California they started a skateboarding outreach to reach out to the local kids in the community with the kids from their church.

Once they settled in North Carolina God made it clear and lead them into a ministry called New Horizons For Children which is where the met their now son, Kolya from Eastern Europe. They hosted him over Christmas 2010 and fell in love not only with Kolya but also the program. They soon went to Eastern Europe and adopted him and also became Volunteer Regional Directors for the program in Central, NC. Nicole is now on the Board of Directors and actively travels to Eastern Europe to reach out to the orphans with the New Horizons For Children team in search of children to bring to America for hosting in hopes of finding them a forever family. Right now the Dewberrys are working with New Horizons For Children and stretching the ministry to do outreach for the timing out children in Eastern Europe that leave the boarding schools with no where to turn. Their hopes for training is to teach the children about Christ, job, social and life skills and help them locate work. Also the plan is to hold Christian camps during the year to reach the children before they reach the timing out faze to teach them about Christ, give them hope and love on them. The have located a property and are in the process of building the ministry.  Kolya and Nicole love helping with another orphan hosting ministry locally called Redline United working with the orphaned kids of Eastern Europe, teaching them about Jesus and loving on them every other summer here locally in North Carolina in hopes that they also find their forever families.

The Dewberrys loves skateboarding and are a bunch of large children. With Kolya’s amazing artistic talent and their love for skateboarding and the lost youth they have started a local ministry www.fallenbutsaved.com. They build and design custom Christian skateboards to reach out to the kids in their community, love on them and teach them about Christ.

Why are they adopting again? When Kolya was 5 he was separated from his older brother and sister who was then 3. She was adopted by an Eastern European family and there was never a good-bye or let’s stay in touch. It is just an empty void in Kolya’s heart for his little sister. His brother, Dima on two different occasions when he was 10 years old ran away from the orphanage they moved him to in search of Kolya and his sister. Thankfully after 8 years once Dima was on his own he finally found Kolya and they are still in touch. But their sister was never to be found. But Kolya has always wanted a little sister and has a soft spot for the little ones.  On one of the New Horizons For Children interview trips Nicole met a boy named Sergiy. They hosted him Christmas 2011 and completed their homestudy/dossier ahead of time in order to adopt him should he want to join their family. He said “Yes”! So they flew in February 2012 to adopt him. He was a timing out teen (15 years old) but he knew his freedom was knocking at the door and he had also met a special girl that stole his heart in just a month of us all being separated. The adoption disrupted and Joe and Nicole started to head back to the US and then he asked them to come back for him and they turned right around and went back for him to only have him not be ready to leave her or his freedoms. When Sergiy was with them the family all talked about adopting a girl when they got home stateside. After a month of recovering this loss of Sergiy because it was like a death to the family they started their homestudy locally in North Carolina to adopt a girl. They had no funds even if they wanted to return to Eastern Europe because of the expense of both Kolya and Sergiys adoption. Even though Sergiy’s adoption disrupted they still have incurred the adoption fees and travel expenses.  They used all their stocks, retirement and equity loans to get the boys. So there was nothing to take from to support another adoption adoption. Although Eastern Europe is like their second home to them there was also now hurt associated with it after losing Sergiy and always that looming risk they could be rejected once again with an adoption. Their homestudy got completed in the US and every girl they looked at either got adopted or they just could not meet the child’s needs so they were at a bit of a stand still which was OK.  They knew God would bring the right child when his timing was right. 

Nicole’s sister who is a very BIG advocate for RR has been trying to get Nicole on RR for 8 months and Nicole nor Joe would just sit down and look. Denise indicated RR had children with HIV & other special needs we might want to check out. Nicole in High School was certified as a foster parent baby-sitter to care for “Special Needs” children. One of the little girls she worked with daily had AIDS. This was back in the day that there was not much knowledge of it and how it was spread  The medication was not what it is now either to help lengthen if not give children a normal life span. You wore gloves when you whipped their noses or touched any sores. It was expected Bianca would live until 3 years of age no longer. The AIDS was passed down from her mother. Bianca was a trooper and made it to 5 years old when she lost her battle with life. After that Nicole closed the door on going down the road of HIV/AIDS because of the loss. BUT on 4/26/12 Denise and Nicole were looking on the computer at kids Nicole had interviewed and met in Eastern Europe and were also in search of photos of the boy Denise and her husband are adopting. Denise hood-winked Nicole into getting on RR page and that is where she found “Taylor”. Nicole new instantly she was done looking any further for a daughter. Although the words HIV positive was right there Nicole knew she has found her girl. She went to Joe and amazingly he said start moving forward. They were and are in prayer daily for the curing of Taylors HIV. They were also in prayer everyday to not mistake their own feelings for what God was calling them to do. Nicole jokes this is kind of the trailer before the horse scenario because they are document ready (dossier complete), physically and mentally ready to go get her but they financially are not. With the last two adoptions even with the disruption, again they used everything they had to bring the boys home, they had a safety net and resources. This time they have to jump and pray God will catch their fall. This is the biggest leap they will take trusting God to meet their financial needs and lifting Taylors health up to him. They are reminded everyday when they look at their fridge that has a saying on it “If God will lead you to it, he will lead you through it”. Also that God does not make mistakes.  God leading them to Taylor was no mistake. God continues to make it abundantly clear they are called to adopt Taylor and they just need to trust him and jump. They have jumped and made this commitment to adopt Taylor!

With the Dewberrys just being in country with the disrupted adoption of Sergiy their dossier is complete and ready, sitting in the SDA office. So with a few minor updates they should be in the air flying shortly To Eastern Europe. One thing Nicole was also reminded when she found the property to build this orphan ministry in Eastern Europe was “You cannot put God in a box”. God cannot be limited. So they have chosen to tear down the walls of the box and not limit God to the miracle of him bringing them to Taylor and God being able to financially provide them the funds to bring her home.

The Dewberrys thank you for all your prayers and any donations as you feel called to help them bring their girl home!

One, Two, Three....JUMP! WE'RE ADOPTING TAYLOR!

This is our li'l peanut when she was younger....

We jumped......Oh My Gosh....we jumped......I feel like jumping because we jumped!  We went from prayer warrior to guardian angel to Taylor's adoptive family!  Yes you are reading this right....Taylor's Adoptive Family! 

God has made it abundantly clear to us that he is calling us to adopt Taylor even when it looks to us impossible to meet the financial needs of this mission in such a short amount of time.  Why a short amount of time?  Our dossier is in country already submitted to the SDA from our disrupted adoption of Sergiy.  So with minor updates to mend which are already in process we could be flying in a month or two to go get her.

There are so many reason why God has made this clear that you cannot help but to see his hands on this little girl and on us.  Again Joe and I had prepared to adopt on the US side and are almost done completing our US homestudy.  We actually are done and just awaiting the FBI results that take several weeks to come back.  In this time of waiting we had been looking for a "future" daughter and there was no matches.....until we found Taylor.  We had no intention to go back to Ukraine because of finances and of course the hurt of losing Sergiy.  So finances were just never a concern.  We had used all our financial resources to bring both the boys home.  Although we did not return with Sergiy we did have almost all the expenses of a complete adoption.  So we are tapped out.

So here is everything to show us clearly God is and was in control from the second we found Taylor.......

Thurday April 26th - My sister Denise lures me onto the internet to look up kids I know and to try to locate Andriy the boy she is adopting but hood-winked me into getting onto Reece's Rainbow in search of more "kids I might know" from NHFC interview trips.  I go under the HIV link on Reece's Rainbow and there she was.  Almost instantly I felt this is "her", this is your little girl you said you would NEVER have.  I say this because I said I would "never" have a daughter.  You know how God laughs at that word "Never".

Friday April 27th - Joe and I talk about Taylor and we are both almost in a trance knowing this is something.  He said to look further into finding more information about her.  Meanwhile I email Andrea with Reece's Rainbow and request the "Other" photos.  Denise and I jump in the car and head to "Together For Adoption" to represent New Horizons For Children to find more host families and get the word out about the program.  We get to the event and have dinner with all the representatives of other organizations to wind up meeting volunteers like us that work for Project Hopeful.  In all the years I have been to adoption events I have never seen an organization representing adoption/advocating of HIV kids, resources to families and support.  I sit down next to a gal at dinner turns out she has an HIV son.  Right then all the photos of Taylor start rolling in on my cell phone of her.  I am laughing, crying and melting all at the same time.  This gal and I started talking and she looked at me when I said we just found an girl with HIV and I am basically dumbfounded and she said "Your going to go adopt her".  Never met the lady before in my life.  She said "Your gonna go get your girl".  Then she said we needed to pray first and foremost about the healing of HIV in Taylor.  This was crazy because that was exactly what we were praying for Taylor.  Then she went on to tell me about how she has an HIV son but after his return home after she thought she was actually going to loose him on the plane ride home he was cured of HIV.  He is on no medication and it is un-detectable.   Then she grabbed my hand and said "Can I pray for You"?  She had me grab my sisters hand and she prayed for us and Taylor.  Then she introduced me to two other incredible gals that also have HIV children and again volunteer for Project Hopeful.  It was truly an amazing weekend to meet these ladies and see the HIV resources and support (FIG Program) we have along with the awesome medical for HIV at Duke but most of all the friendships made.  Going to coffee with her and my sis next week!

Saturday April 28th Until Now-    From Saturday on...major blur....LOL!  We have had a couple organizations come along side us offering to help us fundraise which we NEVER had with either boys adoption in to help us try to raise funds for her adoption.  So I am taking all this in...Joe and I still on that ledge not jumping and taking that plunge yet praying everyday for Gods guidance and will not ours.  Kolya of course chomping at the bit because he is ready to jump and bring her home.  He has been a huge prayer warrior for her.  Joe, Kolya and I prayed and asked as we had everyday since we found her for God to make it abundantly clear we are to take this step to adopt her.   And everyday he answered with some amazing "Something".  Meanwhile we decided to become her prayer warrior on Reece's Rainbow and her Guardian Angel in order to find her a forever family even if it was not us and start cycling and running to help her future family with the adoption costs.  Again we wanted God's to be done.  So I am guessing with all my million questions I had been asking poor Andrea with Reece's Rainbow and inquiring how to work the adoption out because we have basically everything done she assumed we were jumping to adopt Taylor.  So we get done praying and I go to check on the website to see the listing for Taylor and I noticed her photolisting was not where it was before.  I had a little happy panic but also nervous at the same time.  Did someone adopt her?  Oh my how could I be sad although I hoped it would have been  us..... this is so awesome for her.  So then I just stuck in her website link to see if I could find her that way and she showed up under "My Family Found Me"?  Now I am on the phone with my sister and telling her, someone grabbed her!  She's being adopted by someone. This is sad yet so cool all at the same time.  Right then I saw the donation amount she had of $90.00 go to $120.00.  Again I was so excited.  Then I get an email from Nancy (all this is going down while I was on the phone with my sister while we were trying to still figure it out) who does the Reece's Rainbow facilitation on the US side telling me all the things I need to get to her for Taylor's adoption.  Us, We, Taylor.....What???  Right then Joe and Kolya walk in the office and I have the email open and the phone stuck to my head and said "congratulations it's a girl, were adopting Taylor".  So how do you like them beans..... We asked for clarity and God gave it to us!  We were moved to adopting her when we never said we were officially.  How cool is that!  So since then Joe and I have been still standing on the ledge just watching everyday almost every hour God do something amazing to show us....LOOK WHAT I CAN DO and your suppose to adopt her and trust me.  Shortly after she was moved to us adopting her with Joe and I still dumbfounded and excited all at the same time my sister emails and says there is a lady at Taylors orphanage adopting right now and said whoever is adopting her if they would like to talk about her to reach out to them.  Denise sent me over her contact information because I could not yet get into that Reece's Rainbow FB page.  I emailed her....are you ready?  I KNOW HER!  Turns out she helped with the Redline Hosting kids here in Raleigh shortly after Kolya and I returned from Ukraine and we worked with the kiddos for 2 weeks.  She and I had met on the zoo outing.  So she is adopting in the orphanage that Taylor is at and she only lives a little over an hour away from us here in NC and we know each other.  Can't call this a coincidence.  No such thing......So daily God is showing us we can jump and although we may be squinting and squealing on the way down it WILL BE AN AWESOME JOURNEY and he will catch our fall.

Yes we have $26K to raise in a month to two months to go get our girl but I still remember hearing God say to me when we found the property for the orphan outreach in Ukraine "Nicole you cannot put me in a box, don't limit me to a box".  And by golly I couldn't and the ministry is funded we are just ironing out the paperwork.  Working for NHFC I have seen miracle after miracle and my whole life I have seen God lead me from one thing to another and with that I am also reminded if he will lead you to it, he will lead you through it.  And indeed he will.  We are jumping!

If you would like to help us jump by being in prayer for our precious girl and us or by helping us by donating a tax deductible donation to any of the following non profits helping us bring Taylor home below.  We would be so forever grateful for any support you feel lead to do. 

To Donate A Tax Deductible Donation Through Reece's Rainbow:

http://reecesrainbow.org/37364/sponsordewberry

OR

you can mail a check made payable to Reece’s Rainbow and mailed to PO Box 4024  Gaithersburg, MD 20885.  Please make sure to indicate the donation is for "Taylor" for the Dewberrys adoption.

To Donate A Tax Deductible Donation Through Project Hopeful:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=RS39DTYPZX73W 

JOE IS CYCLING AGAIN FOR TAYLOR!!

 MEDICAL MISSION CYCLING FOR TAYLORS ADOPTION!!!!

JOE DID ANOTHER 22 MILES CYCLING FOR MEDICAL MISSION TAYLORS ADOPTION!!! Will you help sponsor miles Joe rides for Taylor? Taylor has HIV and we are on a medical mission to ride and run for her adoption. You can do a TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation of any amount per mile or a one stop shot amount for each of the rides we do or runs we take. Please go to: http://reecesrainbow.org/12849/taylor5905 to make you tax deductible donation for Taylor!

FOLKS JOIN IN AND HELP TAYLOR! Joe even got hit on 2 rides ago! 2 ladies pulled up to him and clocked him at 25MPH and told him he had a nice a*&. I told him he should have responded with "My wife prefers not to use swear words, just say buttocks" and smile and ride off.

HERE IS JOE'S ROUTE YESTERDAY SO YOU CAN SEE HIS RIDE: http://connect.garmin.com/player/174633733

RUNNING & CYCLING FOR TAYLOR!

Everyone I want to introduce you to Taylor.  This is the little girl that has stole myself and my families heart.  As mentioned in a previous post we were moving forward to adopt a girl here in the US and then I found Taylor.  Taylor lives in Ukraine and is HIV positive.  My family feels very strongly lead to adopt her but we want to know this is the calling of God for our family.  We do not want to move on our own will, feelings and emotions and mix them up with what God knows is best for her and our family. This is one of the hardest things I have had to do is let go of a girl I so badly want to adopt and trust the Lord will meet her needs and not my desires to be her mother. 

So we have become her prayer warriors that she will fully and completely recover from HIV.  That the Lord will bring her a family in His perfect timing.  So what are we going to do in the meanwhile you ask??????  

Click here to view about this precious girl Taylor: 
http://reecesrainbow.org/12849/taylor5905

WE ARE GOING TO BECOME HER ADVOCATES!  I say this with confidence that if the Lord is calling us to adopt her although we are now just praying and advocating for her adoption he will bring us to Ukraine to go get her.  No question.  So with us being prayer warrior we are also her battle team on the ground to raise funds for her adoption whether it be us or another family.  

THIS IS HOW CAN YOU HELP US RAISE FUNDS FOR TAYLOR'S ADOPTION?................

OUR RUNNING SHOES ARE ON AND WERE READY TO RUMBLE! 

 1) YOU CAN SUPPORT KOLYA AND NICOLE BY SPONSORING WHATEVER AMOUNT YOU CHOOSE THAT WILL BE TAX DEDUCTIBLE PER MILE THEY RUN.  NICOLE AND KOLYA WILL WEAR A MILEAGE COUNTER THAT TRACKS EVERY MILE THEY RUN.  EACH DAY THEY RUN THEY WILL STICK IT ON FACEBOOK IN ORDER FOR YOU TO FOLLOW WHERE THEY RAN AND HOW MANY MILES AND HOW MANY CALORIES WE BURNED TO BOOT.  

WE ARE RUNNING FOR TAYLOR!

OR 

 

2) OUR FAMILY IS AVID CYCLIST.  WE ARE READY TO REPRESENT IN OUR UKRAINIAN GEAR.  YOU CAN SPONSOR JOE, KOLYA AND MYSELF AS WE RIDE EACH MILE AND TACKLE THE HILLS FOR TAYLOR.  YOU CAN CHOOSE WHATEVER AMOUNT YOU WOULD LIKE THAT WOULD BE TAX DEDUCTABLE TO SPONSOR US FOR EACH MILE.  SHE FIGHTS EVERYDAY WITH HIV AND SPENDING EVERYDAY ALONE WITH NO ONE TO HOLD HER WHEN SHE HURTS SO WE WILL FIGHT WITH SWEAT AND GRINDING TO HELP SUPPORT AND FIND TAYLOR AN ADOPTIVE FAMILY!  EACH MILE AND ROUTE WE DO WILL BE LOGGED ON FACEBOOK SO YOU CAN FOLLOW US AND WE RIDE FOR TAYLOR.  

OR 

YOU CAN JUST MAKE A TAX DEDUCTIBLE  DONATION STRAIGHT TO HER "DONATE" BUTTON AT:

http://reecesrainbow.org/12849/taylor5905 

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPONSOR OUR MILES FOR A TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION EITHER BY US RUNNING OR CYCLING PLEASE EMAIL NICOLE AT: DIVESHARK@YAHOO.COM WITH THIS INFORMATION:

1) YOUR NAME, YOUR E-MAIL, YOUR CONTACT NUMBER & HOW MUCH SPONSOR DONATION WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO MAKE PER MILE FOR TAYLOR.  PLEASE FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK UNDER NICOLE TRIMBLE DEWBERRY OR JOE DEWBERRY TO TRACK OUR MILES WITH US!

2) AT THE END OF EACH MONTH WE WILL TALLEY UP THE MILES AND EMAIL YOU THE TOTAL MILES AND YOU CAN GO DIRECTLY TO HER LINK ABOVE ON REECES RAINBOW AND MAKE THE TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION RIGHT INTO HER ADOPTION ACCOUNT.

*WE WILL BE RIDING AND RUNNING FOR TAYLOR UNTIL ALL HER ADOPTION   FUNDS ARE RAISED OR SHE IS ADOPTED AMEN!

THANK YOU FOR HELPING US HELP TAYLOR!