Dear Friends and Family,             

                We have been blessed and encouraged with all the love and support we have received from everyone about our adoption. We have just completed our home study and are currently putting the final touches on our dossier. Our next step is to apply to United States Customs and Immigration Services; once we are approved to bring a child into the US we will send our dossier to Ethiopia! From there, we wait for the referral of our child!

 Right now our only obstacle is raising the financing for this adoption. We have had several fundraisers and Drew has been trying to get extra hours at work. Thankfully we raised enough money to pay for our home study and our USCIS application. We are now onto a new fundraiser to submit our dossier. We need roughly $7700 in order to submit our dossier before it expires.  We are now eligible to apply for grants, however due to the processing time of grants we will not be able to use that money until later stages in the adoption.  We do not yet know how God will provide this money, but we do know that He called us to adopt and He will be faithful to provide for us.  We would like you to consider continuing to support and encourage our ministry. We are selling t-shirts for $30 each. We have specifically designed shirts for you that will be a visual reminder of our adoption to bring encouragement and support, not only to our family but also to raise general awareness of adoption.  We need to collect orders by Wednesday, August 1^st. Shirts are available in standard men’s sizes S-3XL.  You can email your order to brittanyhashley@gmail.com and mail a check to Brittany Hashley 11350 High Timber Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46235. We need orders by August 1^st please.

We are beyond excited to have gotten this far in our adoption and we are trusting God to bring us through to the end. God has a plan for our family and for the child He will bring to us. We know that His timing is perfect and we wait for it with excitement.  For more information on our adoption please visit our blog hashleyfamily.blogspot.com. Thank you for your encouragement.

Drew, Brittany, and Juliette Hashley

 Design will be on a grey shirt

YAY! Time for a small celebration! We just met with our homestudy social worker and we are "finished" with our homestudy. She is going to be sending off all her paperwork for it today to get approved by her supervisor and then it will get sent to AWAA who fill finalize it and it will get signed and be ready to send to the United States Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) yahooO!!! We are almost done with our Dossier as well, with only a few small things waiting to be finished we are almost to our DTE! Praise God! Brittany and I want to thank everyone for their support and prayers.

the long journey

Hey friends and family. we are almost to our next meeting with our homestudy social worker. we are at a point where if she signs off on our study, we are about 85% of the way to having our whole dossier completed and ready to send off to our state department, then USCIS (united States Customs and Imigration Services) and then to Ethiopia. Also in this time if paperwork, socialworker meetings, mailing, emailing and phone calls we are also trying to sell our house and move away from our current neighborhood. We have a neighbor or two who dont appreciate a police officer living on their street and it has been made known that they dont respect the police. We are trying to follow God and work in his will with his timing yet that is very hard. Being a police officer i am very controlling and i want to provide my own safety for my family, usually by having plans and guns, but im am learning to let go of it and rely on God. We recently had someone who said they wanted to buy our house. They said they would pay the asking price and they wanted all our apliances including washer and dryer, and all our window shades as well as our curtains. We told them that would be ok, and then after 3 days of not being able to get a hold of them our realtor said they seem like they are backing out. God is in control. i have to keep reminding myself of that, and sometims it is very frustrating to think that things are out of my control. God is in control. With all this going on we are almost to the stage of the adoption where we pay a large sum of money to AWAA (our adoption agency) and a large sum to St. Elizabeth (our homestudy Agency). We are getting ready to start filling out grant applications so we can get some money to send our dossier. We are very excited to be in the next step of our adoption and we are so close to our DTE (date to ethiopia). Once we have sent our dossier on our DTE, we sit and pray and wait for our child or children and just get our home ready for this gift from God. Pleas keep us in your prayers. I (Drew) need lots of patience in all the house buying and selling especially. Brittany would like prayer for timing on the house, finances for the adoption and for smooth sailing with the last of the paperwork. God is in Control.