The 22nd Day of Giving - The Corkern's AND The Mattson's

Hi, We are the Corkern family and we are in the process of adopting two little girls from China. These 2 girls will be our 3rd and 4th adopted children. This is our third adoption from China. In May 2008, we adopted our son Cole, 7years old, from Nanjing. He was one of the first children on in the special needs "shared" program. While in China we met our beautiful daughter, Kate. Kate was approaching 13 years of age and had little time to find a family. As soon as we returned home we started the paperwork to adopt again. With no funds we began fundraising and through those efforts an adoption ministry began in our church.

Now after just a year home with Kate we are adopting again. This time we are bring home two children Kendall (8 yrs) and Claire (7 yrs). Both girls will need special medical attention after they come home.

We are now fundraising to raise funds for our adoption costs. If you would like to help you can make a tax deductible donation to our churches ministry be sending a note along with the donation stating it is for the Corkern adoption.

New Summit Church
Attn: Adoption Ministry
1800 Ne Independence Ave
Lee's Summit MO 64086
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We are the Mattson's, Eric and Bridget, in Alaska. We have four biological sons and had decided to adopt as young as possible as minor need as possible next year, but the Lord moves in mysterious ways :-)

We saw the picture of a four and a half year old girl on an advocacy blog and spent the next week making sure that we could get her the care she needs. The pediatric cardiologist that reviewed her file at John's Hopkins said the the issue now is time, she will be five in the late spring and as time goes on with a diseased heart the likelihood of irreparable damage to her lungs increases.
She has a severe heart defect, actually more than one, that needs open heart surgery, if there isn't too much damage already done to her lungs. We are trying to bring her home as fast as we can, but were not planning to do it this soon, financially. We are in the homestudy process, have PA, and are trusting God to provide. We believe that He doesn't call us to do anything that is impossible in Him.
You can donate to the Mattsons via their agency
BAAS
(650) 964-3800.
465 Fairchild Drive, Suite 215
Mountain View, CA 94043.
Please specify Bridget and Eric Mattson adopting from Special Focus China program.