Just Love Coffee

"Roasting Fair Trade Specialty coffees, Just Love Coffee Roasters uses proceeds to help an Ethiopian orphanage and families adopting not just from Ethiopia, but from anywhere in the world."

We stumbled into this family, the Webbs, who have adopted from Ethiopia and now help other adopting families to raise funds through the sale of specialty coffees. Check out their site with the link above and our storefront with the link below:

www.justlovecoffee.com/teamdixon

We would love to have your help. Please consider forwarding to your friends, family, and random coffee drinkers. It's an easy way to become involved in orphan care! Thank you.

FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITY

Daniel & Sarah Dubois, friends from Jenny's home church, are also adopting from Ethiopia. You can check out their story at http://www.goseeklove.com/ They are further into the process than we are and have completed their fund raising.

We were BLOWN AWAY when they called to offer us the proceeds from their Tshirt fundraiser already in progress! Over time, their site has cultivated a following and they are willing to donate the profits over the next several months to the Dixon adoption fund. We are so grateful to the Dubois fam!

SO, we are sending all of our friends to their site to check out the merchandise (hoodies, long sleeves, 3/4 sleeves, T's, onesies, and stationery). They have our story and pictures posted as well. Please consider purchasing something and/or passing the links on to your email list.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!

the dixons

Raising Funds through ETSY

Over the last several months, Jenny has developed a great way of fundraising for our adoption. She has set up an online shoppe named Easy as 127 (after James 1:27) to sell custom photo cards. These are great-looking and affordable cards for many occasions. Customers send personal photos to her and she supplies a jpeg that is print-ready. All the proceeds go to our adoption fund!

PLEASE consider purchasing your family's Christmas cards, birthday and other party invites, and more through her site.

ALSO, please help us network with more people by sending the link for her shoppe to people on your email list. With your recommendation, we could reach many people and raise much needed funds!

THANK YOU for your help and support in the coming months!

To visit, go to: www.jennydixon.etsy.com

Update

Jenny and I are working feverishly to complete our home study process. We are in the home stretch! We think. It has gone pretty well and the last meeting with our social worker has been scheduled for next week. She will actually visit our home this time to make her final decision on whether or not we are fit to adopt. I've still gotta get a fire extinguisher!

Once the home study is written, it will have to be approved at various levels. Then, the home study, along with another 237 notarized and certified documents will be sent to various agencies, government entities including congress on the state and federal levels (both house & senate), a host of federal judges, the United Nations, the train station, the laundry mat, the immigration office, the local rotary club, and then back to president Obama for final approval. THEN, it will be sent to Ethiopia!

Seriously, we are hoping our official dossier (fancy word for packet of info) will be complete sometime in November and then sent out of country. As far as fundraising goes, we are about 1/5 the way there. As many of you know, our house is for sale. Slow market...yeah, we know. We really want to pay less for a house anyway. So through additional fundraising and the sale of our house, we believe we'll raise the funds necessary...eventually. Please be praying that God will send us a buyer soon!