the paxton project: Priceless...

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Priceless...

We have all seen the commercials 5 dollars for sunscreen, 20 dollars for ponchos, 50 dollars for souvenirs, a day at Disney with the fam priceless!
There is a price tag for everything...
Our adoption for our little Paxton has a cost 30 thousand dollars, can you put a price tag on a child of course not.. Not in my book... One day I was walking thru the mall @ millinia here in Orlando as I walked by Tiffany's I thought to my self there are people spending more than 30 thousand on rings and ear rings and necklaces, across the street from the mall there is a BMW dealer, I thought 30 thousand would not even touch a new BMW. Is it bad to buy these things? No. That is not what I am saying. I guess my thought 30 thousand for a little helpless human that is priceless... I am so encouraged about the money that has come in so far through this raffle. People ask me what if you do not get enough what will you do? Not worried. Giving up is not an option for the Miller's. We are in this for the long haul...
Last night some friends of ours were over and we were praying asking God about thepaxtonproject, my friend Joel got the passage psalms 24 the first verse just hit me, "the earth is the Lords and everything in it." How awesome Paxton is on this earth and she is God's & he wants me to have her even more than I want her ( hard to imagine but true ) that my friends is where my peace and excitement come from today...

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We have raised our inition goal of requirement for the adoption to proceed. We still have travel expenses, post adoption, citizenship and other legal expenses that will gradually unfold. We still are accepting donations to help meet these needs. You may give by mail or online!

Many of you have been asking how you can give financially towards paxton's adoption & get a tax break. Your giving towards this project can be claimed as a tax deduction. You may give through Youth With A Mission Orlando, which is the Christian missions organization we work with. Here is how you can do that.

Mail: make check/money order payable to "YWAM" and mail to - Andy & Rachel Miller; PO BOX 620487; Orlando, FL 32862 / (contact us: 69.426.1086)

Note - 100% of the donations goes towards the adoption

behind the cause...

behind the cause...

when i was 18, i had the privilage of going on a 2 month outreach to India w/ Youth With A Mission. I had no idea the impact it would have on my life. The thing I remember the most is the 30 hour train ride. This was NOT Amtrak. It was hot. It smelled. And there were eunuchs sitting across from me the whole trip. It was a little exciting and yet a little scary all at the same time. At one of the stops, a little boy came crawling through the train begging fro money. He was missing limbs off of his body. It was terrible and it was the first time I had ever seen anything like that. I tried to give the little boy some food, but he resisted. Later our host told us that there are people, sort of like pimps, who take in orphaned children and cut off the limbs so that when they send them out to beg, people will feel sorry for them and will then give them money. The child will in return, take all the money back to their "pimp." I had never heard anything so sick. I knew that I wanted to adopt kids from that moment on. I can not stand the fact of children growing up on the streets being sold into the sex trafficking industry, among many other horrible things. Our heart for adoption is huge. I have been asked many time, "Can you not have your own children?" My answer is, "I don't know." I went through a miscarriage in the Fall of 2010. It was sad and my heart still aches when I think about it. If I were to get pregnant, of course I would be excited. But none the less, it would not change my heart for adoption. There is something inside of me that knows this is bigger than me. I know God is with me and that he will provide. I hope to someday help others to adopt; to give; to be A VOICE on behalf of kids are are screaming, but are not being heard. This my friends excites me. And this is why I choose to adopt.