So unfortunately PayPal will not allow us to use them to receive payments. Everyone who has already made a payment through PayPal is fine, but from now on we can only except checks in the mail or cash by hand. So sorry for the inconvenience...... You can send your checks to 129 Summer St., Auburn, ME 04210 & can make the check out to Anna or Josh Cousineau. Please just leave a comment or email us (akooz04@yahoo.com) to let us know how many tickets you are purchasing & that your payment is on its way. Thanks so much for your prayers & donations!!!!
Click HERE for more info on the raffle......
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Who wants an iPod Touch?!?!?!?!
So Josh & I have about $7,000 left to raise for travel!!!! Sounds like a big amount, but trust me it's so tiny compared to what has been paid :-)
We will be raffling off an 8GB iPod touch. Tickets are $3.00 a piece. You can buy as many tickets as you want to better your chances of winning. The winner will be announced Sun. March 21 late afternoonish. Deadline to buy tickers is Sun. March 21 @ 11AM. We will post it on Facebook, Twitter, this blog, & we will contact the person asap. If you're out of state we will ship it to you. All of the proceeds will be going towards our travel expenses while in Uganda.
Ways to pay....
*Send us a check asap in the mail or give it to us asap (mailing address 129 Summer St, Auburn, ME 04210 You can make the check out to Josh or Anna Cousineau) Please leave a comment or email us ( akooz04@yahoo.com ) to let us know your payment is on its way.
*Give us cash
(If we haven't received your payment yet & you're picked as the winner, we will send the iPod out to you as soon as the payment is received.)
Tell everyone you know about this! Post it on Facebook! Post it on Twitter! Get the word out! Who wouldn't want a chance to win an iPod touch?!?!
We will be raffling off an 8GB iPod touch. Tickets are $3.00 a piece. You can buy as many tickets as you want to better your chances of winning. The winner will be announced Sun. March 21 late afternoonish. Deadline to buy tickers is Sun. March 21 @ 11AM. We will post it on Facebook, Twitter, this blog, & we will contact the person asap. If you're out of state we will ship it to you. All of the proceeds will be going towards our travel expenses while in Uganda.
Ways to pay....
*Send us a check asap in the mail or give it to us asap (mailing address 129 Summer St, Auburn, ME 04210 You can make the check out to Josh or Anna Cousineau) Please leave a comment or email us ( akooz04@yahoo.com ) to let us know your payment is on its way.
*Give us cash
(If we haven't received your payment yet & you're picked as the winner, we will send the iPod out to you as soon as the payment is received.)
Tell everyone you know about this! Post it on Facebook! Post it on Twitter! Get the word out! Who wouldn't want a chance to win an iPod touch?!?!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Why are Josh & Anna Cousineau adopting???????
First off I'd LOVE to announce that we are officially waiting!!!!!! We received our last document from the USCIS (immigrations) giving approval for us to adopt.... next step is our referral!!! Now we wait.... could be weeks, months only God knows :-/ Please pray for this impatient soul! Pray that all goes smoothly, and the wait won't be too long and that things will be resolved in Uganda....
So I'm going to answer a few questions that I've been hearing lately & some that you all are thinking but just won't ask....
*Why are you adopting anyway???? (Wonderful question I may add :-)
(2 verses for you to go with this question)
Mark 10:21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Proverbs 3:27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
Josh & I feel strongly nothing we have or own is ours. It was given to us as a blessing to glorify His name in some way. We have a very tiny bit of money left over every month, we have more room in our home, and room in our hearts. This life is not ours, and God says many times in His Word that we as His followers are to care for the fatherless. There are about 163 million orphans in the world today. God gave a command, God gave us room in our home, who are we to live a comfortable life and do nothing while 163 million children suffer? We find ultimate joy in our adoption in Christ's family. We can't think of any other way to thank Him for His ultimate gift than to adopt children and teach them and introduce them to the ultimate adoption we have been given.
*What about your boys? What if the girls are sick and expose your boys to diseases????
God didn't just call Josh and I to adopt. He called our whole family to adopt. God will protect us all. The girls we are waiting for are just as much our children now as our boys are. We think of them no differently. If Braden came down with something we wouldn't ship him off somewhere so Tanner wouldn't get sick!!! Simple as that.
*They're from Africa! What if they have AIDS????
Then we will be extremely blessed to have exposure to medical help for them, and will be able to offer them a WAY longer life here then if they were left in Africa. Yes, we would have to take precautions throughout our life, which isn't comfortable, but then again God didn't say life would be comfortable.....did He???
*You know it's not going to be easy right???
I don't think even raising 1 child is easy! Of course we know it's not going to be easy!!!! God didn't call us as believers to live an easy comfortable life. He called us to pick up our crosses and follow Him. So because I want to have 8 hrs of uninterrupted sleep at night I'm going to turn down a starving little girl who cries herself to sleep every night because she remembers watching her mother die from a disease that could have been treated if they had the money to buy the medicine to treat it? Because I want money to stop to get a coffee 4 mornings out of the week I'm going to turn down a little boy that was left in a dumpster to die because his father was nowhere to be found and his mother didn't have the money to care for him??? (These stories I'm sure are true, but I just typed what popped into my head) How selfish is that!!!! We know life is going to be hard, but we also know God is walking right along side us giving us the strength we need to get through everything He'll be throwing at us. We also know we have an awesome church body! We have a ton of families in our church that have gone through this that we know for a fact will be here for us......
My question to all of you is this......
*Why are you NOT adopting???? (Only non-selfish answers please because most of the ones I hear are in fact out of selfish reasoning)
Yes, I know not everyone is called to adopt, but if you've had even a tiny thought in your mind about adoption, I just want to know...... why not???
If you're one who is not called to adopt, are you called to help in some way? Helping a family pay for their adoption? Bringing meals to a family transitioning from an adoption? Calling the adopting couple to pray with them? (Just a few examples, and no I'm not just talking about helping Josh and I, although we would love all of those :-)
If you have any questions for Josh and I about our process, about adoption, or anything else leave a comment and I'll try to answer it :-)
Please keep our family in your prayers!!!!!
So I'm going to answer a few questions that I've been hearing lately & some that you all are thinking but just won't ask....
*Why are you adopting anyway???? (Wonderful question I may add :-)
(2 verses for you to go with this question)
Mark 10:21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Proverbs 3:27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
Josh & I feel strongly nothing we have or own is ours. It was given to us as a blessing to glorify His name in some way. We have a very tiny bit of money left over every month, we have more room in our home, and room in our hearts. This life is not ours, and God says many times in His Word that we as His followers are to care for the fatherless. There are about 163 million orphans in the world today. God gave a command, God gave us room in our home, who are we to live a comfortable life and do nothing while 163 million children suffer? We find ultimate joy in our adoption in Christ's family. We can't think of any other way to thank Him for His ultimate gift than to adopt children and teach them and introduce them to the ultimate adoption we have been given.
*What about your boys? What if the girls are sick and expose your boys to diseases????
God didn't just call Josh and I to adopt. He called our whole family to adopt. God will protect us all. The girls we are waiting for are just as much our children now as our boys are. We think of them no differently. If Braden came down with something we wouldn't ship him off somewhere so Tanner wouldn't get sick!!! Simple as that.
*They're from Africa! What if they have AIDS????
Then we will be extremely blessed to have exposure to medical help for them, and will be able to offer them a WAY longer life here then if they were left in Africa. Yes, we would have to take precautions throughout our life, which isn't comfortable, but then again God didn't say life would be comfortable.....did He???
*You know it's not going to be easy right???
I don't think even raising 1 child is easy! Of course we know it's not going to be easy!!!! God didn't call us as believers to live an easy comfortable life. He called us to pick up our crosses and follow Him. So because I want to have 8 hrs of uninterrupted sleep at night I'm going to turn down a starving little girl who cries herself to sleep every night because she remembers watching her mother die from a disease that could have been treated if they had the money to buy the medicine to treat it? Because I want money to stop to get a coffee 4 mornings out of the week I'm going to turn down a little boy that was left in a dumpster to die because his father was nowhere to be found and his mother didn't have the money to care for him??? (These stories I'm sure are true, but I just typed what popped into my head) How selfish is that!!!! We know life is going to be hard, but we also know God is walking right along side us giving us the strength we need to get through everything He'll be throwing at us. We also know we have an awesome church body! We have a ton of families in our church that have gone through this that we know for a fact will be here for us......
My question to all of you is this......
*Why are you NOT adopting???? (Only non-selfish answers please because most of the ones I hear are in fact out of selfish reasoning)
Yes, I know not everyone is called to adopt, but if you've had even a tiny thought in your mind about adoption, I just want to know...... why not???
If you're one who is not called to adopt, are you called to help in some way? Helping a family pay for their adoption? Bringing meals to a family transitioning from an adoption? Calling the adopting couple to pray with them? (Just a few examples, and no I'm not just talking about helping Josh and I, although we would love all of those :-)
If you have any questions for Josh and I about our process, about adoption, or anything else leave a comment and I'll try to answer it :-)
Please keep our family in your prayers!!!!!
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