Wheelbarrow Walk For Adoption

Wheelbarrow Walk for Adoption:

On Saturday, June 9^th TeJay will begin the long 25 mile walk around the McCarran loop while pushing a wheelbarrow. The wheelbarrow holds significance for several reasons:

1.  It’s symbolic of the main idea behind the event-to help “share the load.”

2.      We are hoping it will draw attention and therefore raise awareness about the great need for adoption in our world.

3.      It’s pretty darn cool.

About Us:

We are TeJay, Ashleigh, and Eva Harvey. We are just an ordinary family. We are not super rich, super churchy or super special. However we do love Jesus and we want to glorify Him whenever possible. We have always wanted multiple children and we feel it has been put on our hearts to add our next family member by means of adoption. 

After pursuing local avenues and having the doors close, we found our agency One World Adoptions where they introduced us to the Democratic Republic of Congo program. We quickly fell in love with the country, the people and the children as we learned more and more of the frightening statistics:

-The DR Congo has a population of 70 million, of those 5 million are homeless children. 

-The infant mortality rate is 20%, the second highest in the world.

-The average salary is $300.00 A YEAR.

-Approximately 25 percent of children ages 5- 14 are working to help raise money for their families

-Sexual slavery, human trafficking and child soldiers are rampant in the area. 

The list goes on and on. 

In John 17 Jesus prays for his disciples. He says he is sending them out into the world as his own representation, and he prays for their unity. He prays that they will be united as "we are united"; that the world will be changed by the love that they show in his name. Jesus has a heart for the broken; he was a fighter for social justice. For the oppressed, the widowed, the lame, and the orphan he was an advocate.  

As a family we long to bring one child out of that equation- making one less orphan. We cannot do this on our own we just don't have the funds. This however has served to only bring further glory to God and his power. 

There are still many hurdles to clear and much prayer is needed. Our overall costs are estimated to be around $25,000 and as you can see by our thermometer, we've come a long ways-but still have about 60% to go.

    

Our Mission :

1. Bring glory to God- We have been adopted as sons into the family of God; therefore we can think of no better way to glorify our heavenly father than by attempting to show the same love he has shown us to another human being in need.

2.We want to highlight the need for adoption by sharing our story.

3.We hope the church community can use our story and motivation, to serve God by serving others, to share and spread the Gospel among friends and coworkers.

4. And of course we wan to bring our baby home!

Ways to Get Involved:

1.  Sign up to sponsor TeJay as he walks at $1.00 a mile. To make a pledge email scrunchnose@yahoo.com or give now via the donate button on the left hand side of our blog.

2.      Print out the flier we have listed below and help us spread the word. Take it to work, Church, community groups, school, the dentist, the grocery store, your grandmothers house, WHEREVER!! We hope you can share our story as you share our flyer.

(Contact scrunchnose@yahoo.com if you would like us to supply fliers for you to distribute)

3.      Support businesses that support adoption. When you are in the market, make sure to support these fine folks first!

4.      Come out to support him on the day of the event! See us off with Coffee at 8:00 am at Cosmic Coffee in Sparks. Join us in prayer for orphans world wide and that God will provide a heart for adoption in this country. Also you can join us for lunch at 1:30(depending on how fast his legs can get him there) at Qdoba in Northwest Reno.  We will be ending (7pm ish)in the same shopping center as we began and if you want to join us for dinner we're thinking either Applebees or Sushi. In any case hang out with us and watch that crazy man push his wheelbarrow around one of the biggest streets in our city! 

5. SHARE OUR BLOG! Post it on your Pinterest boards, e-mail it to your friends, share it on your Facebook pages! (Speaking of Facebook click the link to follow our progress as it happens and for additional stops the day of, U-Swirl anyone?!)

6. Pray for us, that we have wisdom and endurance through this latest pursuit of God's kingdom.

To print this from home click the middle "download" 

button and then print the PDF :)