Quilt Fundraiser - We Need Your Help!!!!!

Dear friends and family,

To welcome and celebrate a new life, there is a tradition in the northern part of China to make a Bai Jia Bei, or 100 Good Wishes Quilt. It is a custom to invite 100 people to contribute a single square patch of cloth. These 100 patches are sewn together into a quilt that contains luck, hope, and good thoughts from all the families and friends who contribute a piece of fabric. The quilt is then passed down from generation to generation.

We would like to combine this tradition with raising money for our next adoption.  We want all of you to have a part in creating a quilt that our child will have forever.  He or she will be able to be covered in the love of family and friends.

So this is how we would like to accomplish this:

• Each square will “cost” $10.   For each $10 you donate to our adoption, we want to include 1 square on our child’s quilt.  For example, if you can give $10, choose 1 square.  If you can give $100, choose 10 squares.
• You may choose your own fabric or we will choose for you.  If you choose, we would love it if you chose something meaningful to you. If you’d like us to choose your fabric, just let us know.  We have plenty of fabric!!  We aren't sure yet if we'll be matched with a boy or a girl.
• The fabric can be anything that is machine washable. Any color or pattern is fine.  A piece of an old t-shirt, a piece of something meaningful to you, regular cotton quilting fabric, etc. 
• The piece needs to be a 4-inch square.
• If you would like to enclose a note for our scrapbook, we'd love to include it in the new child's scrapbook. 

We need you to send your fabric and your check directly to us.  We will take progress pictures of our squares periodically so you can see how we’re doing!  If you’d prefer to give anonymously, just send a money order and we’ll make sure to include some fabric squares in the quilt.  If you need our address, email us at wolfeadoption@gmail.com

Our goal is to raise around $10,000 with this quilt.  By our calculations, for a twin-size, the front of the quilt will have approximately 560 squares, so that is $5,600 for the front.  I am more than happy to make a larger quilt if we get enough squares!!!!!

We know this is a difficult time of year to be asking for donations.  We are so grateful for whatever you can contribute.  Every dollar gets us a little closer to being able to bring our child home!!!  We are working on a detailed list of how much everything costs so that everyone can see what goes into an international adoption.  We assure you that every penny that is donated will go directly towards our adoption.  We have a special savings account set up and all adoption money goes directly into that account.

Thank you and we can’t wait to get started on the quilt!  Please let us know if you have any questions!!!!!  Sherry’s email address is:  scbwolfe@gmail.com and Aaron’s is:  aswolfe@gmail.com

Thank you again!

Aaron, Sherry, Luke, Jacinda, and our new little one

Buy Coffee and Help Bring our Child Home!

We are partnering with a great company called Just Love Coffee to help raise money for our next adoption.  For every bag of coffee you buy, they will give us $5 that goes directly towards our adoption expenses.  Go HERE for our store.  Once you get there, you can use the links on the left side of the page to see all the types of coffee they have.

I have tried a couple of different types and they are SO good!!!!!  The coffee would make great Christmas gifts!!!  Feel free to send the link to other friends and family if you'd like.

The company was started specifically to help orphans and their adoptive families.  The coffee is certified Fair Trade, which means that the coffee farmers are paid a sustainable and livable wage.  The coffee is also Organic.

If you have any questions, please let us know!  Any purchases are greatly appreciated.  We're working hard to raise the money for this adoption and would love to have you as a partner in the process.  We have more ideas in the works, so stay tuned!