Time for New Partner Families!

The last three months have been a blur. But blurry in a good way! More on that in a later post. :) As we close out 2010 we have several exciting announcements. First, the Go. Seek. Love. store will be taking a winter vacation during the month of January. This will allow us to catch our breath and do some much needed maintenance on the website. Second, we are super excited about a new partnership with another orphan care ministry. More details later! Lastly…

We are ready to partner with more adoptive families!

From now until Saturday January 1^st at 12:00PM, we will be accepting applications for our next 5 partner families. Each family will receive all of the profits from Go. Seek. Love. T-shirt sales for one month beginning in February.

The requirements are:

1. Your family must be in the process of adopting a child from Africa

2. Your application to an adoption agency has been approved

3. You have not yet completed the court process

4. Your family has an active blog that has been in existence for at least 3 months and is regularly posted to a minimum of 6 times a month.

To “apply”:

1. Send an email to dubois@goseeklove.com with “Partner Family” in the subject line.

2. In the email include the following:

a. Your names

b. What town and state you live in

c. Brief family bio (number of kids, years married, occupations, etc). Nothing extensive. Just a few sentences will do. The last thing adoptive families need is more paperwork!

d. Brief reason your family is adopting (Again, you don’t have to write a novel. We want to make this as easy as possible)

For a complete FAQ on being a partner family go to http://www.goseeklove.com/partner_faq.html

The job of the partner family is just MARKETING. Blog about it, offer giveaways, send out email blasts to your friends and family, and write about the T-shirts on Facebook and Twitter. Your profits will depend on how well you promote your cause. We do all the printing and the order fulfillment. At the end of the month we send you a check for 100% of the net proceeds along with a list of people who purchased shirts.

We will notify all applicants by January 10^th. Check out the FAQ if you have any questions. If there’s something that’s not covered there, feel free to shoot us an email. We look forward to hearing from you!

Daniel and Sarah

FREE Shipping and a NEW PRINT!

We are offering FREE SHIPPING today and tomorrow only (December 12th and 13th) on all Go. Seek. Love. orders. Hurry and get your order in to support the Matheny family! The 13th is the last day that we can guarantee delivery before Christmas. So place your order now!

ALSO... We we have a new product that we only be available for a limited time! Go. Seek. Love. prints to hang on the wall! We actually created these because I wanted one for Benjamin's room, and we ended up loving them so much that we created them in every color of the rainbow so that others could enjoy them too!

(The print does not come framed. Sorry)

They are 5X7, printed on heavy card stock, and available in 7 different colors. We have four in each color, and when they are gone, they are gone. So get your order in NOW if you want one!

Seriously, these are perfect framed in an adopted child's bedroom, and you can pick the color that best matches your decor. All the colors look great, but I must say - pink is a personal favorite. :)

Available colors - pink, orange/peach, (brown is actually not available - it's too dark), light purple, cream, light yellow, light green, and light blue

Order right here on my blog. All prints are $10 each, and 100% goes to the Matheny family's adoption! Just let us know in the "special instructions" area which color you prefer.

Meet the Mathenys

Philip, Sara, Emily, and Titus Matheny

www.mathenymom.blogspot.com

Although I haven’t seen them in person for about eight years now, this family has a very special place in my heart. The seed for adoption was first planted in my heart by Philip and Sara.

We went to the same college as Philip and Sara, and although we were never the best of friends, we had many common friends and always knew each other. I had a great deal of respect for them back then just because of what I knew about them from others.

Then Sara and I were paired together to do a project in a Bible class (we went to a small Christian college). We were told to research and present a ministry that we were passionate about and would like to be involved in in the future. Sara suggested that we do our presentation on foster care. She and Philip had spent the previous summer living and working with a family who cared for many foster children, and they were interested in doing the same someday down the road when they were married. It wasn’t something that I had ever really considered before, but I wanted to be agreeable so I said OK.

As I researched foster care , studied what the scriptures said about caring for the fatherless, and interviewed a few people who had served as foster parents the idea of caring for children who needed parents stuck with me. Over time I became convinced that Daniel and I would probably become foster parents someday when our children were older. Gradually that dream changed and God led us in the direction of adoption.

Anyway, this blog post isn’t supposed to be about me. My point is, that I am so very excited and honored to be partnering with the Matheny family this month. They are a precious, godly family, and they are adopting from the West African country of Burkina Faso.

For the months of November and December 100% of the proceeds for all Go.Seek.Love. shirts and note cards will benefit the Matheneys’ adoption.

Here’s what they have to say about their family:

We are Philip and Sara Matheny. God planted the seed of adoption in our lives through a foster-adopt family during the summer of 2001. When we married the following year, we knew that adoption would be a part of our family. A couple of times we tried to pursue it and each time He said, “Wait.” After we were blessed with the births of Emily and Titus, we began to believe adoption as something we do “someday” in the distant future.

In 2009, we began to realize that God was planning to bring our next child into our home through adoption. We chose to pursue adoption from Burkina Faso because our extended family is already in love with the country. Though we have not yet been there ourselves, twelve members of the Matheny family have lived in or traveled to Burkina. Our family and friends join us in excitement for bringing Little Matheny home! Emily started a change jar last year and collects all the money she finds (and even gifts she is given) to help bring her little brother home. Titus prays daily that his little brother will come home soon.

Throughout the adoption process, God has been guiding us to “Listen. Trust. Obey.” He taught us to live simply and has provided abundantly. He has given us a passion for Himself and for families and we are thankful for the opportunities He gives us to love others as He has loved us. You can follow our journey as we bring our son home from Burkina Faso at

www.mathenymom.blogspot.com

And by the way, their awesome photos were taken by Sara Darling, another mom in the process of adopting from Ethiopia!

www.goseeklove.com

Meet the Cox Family

Well, I have fallen off the blogging wagon lately. I guess that is obvious. Life is FULL. Full of fun, full of work, full of joy, full of kids hanging onto my legs at all times. My heart is full and my days are full. More about that later, but for now:

I am honored to introduce you to the Cox family! They are the Go. Seek. Love. partner family for the month of October, and I have been horribly remiss to not introduce them until the month is half over.

Jason, Summer, Elijah (6), and Judah (2) Cox

For the month of October 100% of the proceeds of all Go. Seek. Love. sales will go to this sweet Texas family. Summer is offering a different cool giveaway each week this month. Check out her blog for the details. I know that we all love giveaways! coxragamuffins.blogspot.com

Here is more info about their family:

We are Jason and Summer Cox. We have been married for 8 years and live in Fort Worth, TX. We met in the Aggies for Christ on a mission trip while in college and were married 2 years later. We have two sweet boys: Elijah, age 6 and Judah, age 2. Jason is employed for Chase Bank and Summer is a stay at home mom & part-time teacher at our church's preschool. God is at the center of our marriage & family. We strive to live our lives in obedience to Him and the calling He has put on each of our lives. We talked about adoption several years before our second son was born and felt like it was something God was calling us to do at some point. We had heard of the poverty and hopelessness in Africa and felt a burden & tug on our hearts to do something to help. We also felt a biblical responsibility to care for the orphan and spread the word about adoption so others can help too. Thispast summer we felt God telling us it was time to start the process, so we did. We are very excited about it and know very clearly that we are on the path God has chosen for us. We have been on the wait list since July 1, 2010 and can't wait to bring our baby girl home from Ethiopia!

So head over to www.goseeklove.com and buy a t-shirt to support their adoption. Our new design has been selling like crazy. You know you want one!

Meet the Hunts AND a Cool New Shirt!

I am very excited to introduce you to the Hunt family! For the month of September, all proceeds from the sale of Go. Seek. Love. shirts and note cards go to this dear family, adopting from Ethiopia. Check out their blog at hunts4adoption.blogspot.com.

Here is their story:

We are Brian and Angela Hunt. We have a 4 year old daughter named Isabel and we are so excited and ready to get on the waitlist to adopt a sweet little girl from Ethiopia. We live in Advance, North Carolina (15 minutes from Winston-Salem). Brian works for a building supply company and is in seminary at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary pursuing his Master of Divinity.

Angela teaches ESL to elementary school students. We knew that God was leading us to adopt in 2008 but many different circumstances stood in the way, so we waited. By Christmas of 2009, the call to adopt started to stir in our hearts again and this time we couldn't stop thinking about Africa, specifically Ethiopia. God has provided for every step in our adoption process so far and we know that He is faithful to continue to provide. We are so excited to move closer and closer to the day when we will hold our new daughter in our arms and bring her home to join our family.

AND I am EXTREMELY excited to introduce our BRAND NEW T-SHIRT DESIGN!!! These awesome shirts are the creation of my talented husband, and they are available at www.goseeklove.com.

Here is the men's design:

These are printed on super-soft, dark gray Canvas brand T-shirts.

And here is the ladies. I LOVE THIS SHIRT!!!

It is printed on a steel blue "burn out" style shirt. It is so soft and comfy, long in length, and fits really well. They do run small (about 1 and a half sizes small, actually).

The Here is a close up of the design so that you can read all of the words. (You can double click on it to see it larger.) This shirt is jam-packed with meaning. Oh, and the cross in the background is a traditional Ethiopian-style cross.

Head over to the website and buy one today. 100% of the profits benefit the Hunt family's adoption!

Meet the Robbins

I am very excited to introduce you to the Robbins family! They are our Go. Seek. Love. partner family for the month of August. Aren't they the cutest family you've ever seen? Talk about photogenic!

Kirk and Becca Robbins with Grace, Ben, and Rhett

Here is their bio:

We are Kirk and Becca Robbins. We live in Rogers, Arkansas where Kirk works for Dr. Pepper and is in school getting his MBA and Becca is the CEO of the Robbins’ Nest! We have three busy kids: Grace (5), Ben (2) and Rhett (1). Both of our sons have a severe bleeding disorder called Hemophilia. We’ve faced some tough challenges the past few years and will no doubt have more to come. Through this, we’ve grown stronger as a family and in our faith.
We have both always had the desire to adopt and are so excited to be on this journey! We know this is God’s calling for us and feel that our family is just not yet complete. We can’t wait to add another child into our lives and home! Currently, we are on the waitlist for a precious baby girl from Ethiopia.

Head over to www.goseeklove.com and buy a T-shirt or notecards. 100% of the profits will go toward the Robbins' adoption. Check out their blog at www.robbinsfour.blogspot.com.

Meet the Cassadas

For the month of July all proceeds from the sale of Go. Seek. Love. T-shirts and note cards will go to the Cassada family - adopting two children from Rwanda!

Family blog: http://cassadas.blogspot.com/

Family bio: We got married young - in college. We've grown up together...had 4 amazing kids...they are 8, 6, 4 and almost 2. Pat loves his job (in the corporate world) and I love mine (at home). We love to be together as a family...picking strawberries at the farm, going for walks, working in the yard, playing games. God has blessed up abundantly.

The short answer to why were adopting is because we can! The longer answer: God laid it on our hearts (Courtney's first...Pat's a little while later) a couple years ago. We LOVE being parents and there are so many children out there that need a home and a family. We have both. And we look forward to opening our hearts and home to 2 more precious children from Rwanda!

Head over to www.goseeklove.com and buy a T-shirt to support the Cassadas' adoption now!

By the way, we just wrapped up the fundraiser for the Kirk family, and we were very excited to be able to send them a check for almost $1,000! Woo hoo! Amy did an incredible job promoting it!

Kirk's Giveaway of the Week

Check out the Kirk family's blog to find out how you can win this dress (custom made in size 6 months - 5T).

Amy is doing a different cool giveaway from her blog every week to help spread the word about www.goseeklove.com. Check it out! Oh yeah, and buy a Go. Seek. Love. T-shirt too. 100% of the proceeds go toward the Kirk family's adoption!

Meet the Kirks

I am excited to introduce the next Go. Seek. Love. family!

Stephen (dad), Amy (mom), Joshua, Emma, Sophie, Abby, Caleb, and Chloe Kirk

The Kirks' blog: www.growingby2feet.blogspot.com.

For the next six weeks, 100% of the proceeds of all Go. Seek. Love. T-shirt sales will go toward the Kirk family's adoption of a baby boy from Ethiopia!

Yes that's right, I said six weeks. We had initially planned to partner with families for three months at a time. However, when we got almost twenty applications from awesome, godly families, we were faced with a very difficult situation. We read blog after blog and fell in love with family after family. With all my heart I wanted to help every single one of them! With our current infrastructure, though, it's just not possible. Instead we prayerfully decided to partner with one family per month through the end of the year. The Kirks are the first, and from now until the end of June all T-shirt profits will go to them. Yea!

So head on over to www.goseeklove.com and buy a T-shirt.

Also, Help us spread the word by adding a Go. Seek. Love. badge to your blog. Just copy and paste the following text:


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Let me also share their bio with you that is now on our website:

Thanks for stopping by! We are the Kirk family (Stephen, Amy, and our 6 precious kids), waiting to bring our newest addition home from Ethiopia. As a family, we are striving each day to grow STRONGER in our devotion to God, CLOSER in our commitment to one another, and FURTHER in our passion for the world. By God’s unfathomable grace, we have been adopted in Christ—redeemed, rescued, and restored as His children, and now God is calling us to do the same for one precious little life a world away. What a privilege!

Several months ago, it became clear that God was asking us to “Go! Seek! Love,” a child through adoption. As we have responded in obedience, we have been encouraged by the example God himself set for us. He comes to us in our sin, seeks us out even as we push Him away, and loves us unconditionally and without merit. The path of obedience is not easy, but it is always good. May you experience the profound love of the very first adoptive Father in new ways today!

About the Kirk Family

Nearly 15 years ago, a boy married a girl, and since then, things have never been the same. Visit the Kirk house today and you can expect to be greeted by: 16 eyes, 160 fingers and toes, and 8 hearts beating in anticipation over the arrival of a 9th from Ethiopia. While the Kirk family loves the beach and the Colorado mountains, at any given moment you might find them hovering over their studies in the family dining room with homeschooling mom, Amy, at the teacher’s desk. They are also joyfully involved in their church, pastored by Stephen (dad). As you can imagine, life with 6 (soon to be 7) kids is never dull and always full of many blessings!

JOIN us…

As we seek to bring justice to the fatherless.

Go. Seek. Love. Continued

We have exciting news - this time about T-shirts.

In case you are new to my blog, let me fill you in: We have been selling T-shirts with the Go. Seek. Love. logo for over a year now. Daniel, my talented hubby, designed the logo and created a website, www.goseeklove.com, both for selling the shirts and to provide resources for families who are interested in adoption from Ethiopia.

First we sold the shirts to raise money for our own adoption, profiting over $2,000 from the shirt sales. After we finished raising money, we didn't want to shut the website and T-shirt "business" down. God had blessed us so much, and we wanted to pass the blessing along to others. We partnered with another adoptive family and sold shirts to help them to raise money. In four months, we were able to send them almost $2,000 too!

For the past three months we have been selling the shirts to recoup the significant costs of a big screen printing order that we placed. But now...

We are ready to partner with another adoptive family!

From now until Saturday May 1st, we will be accepting applications to become our partner family for the next three months.

Anyone who is in the process of adopting a child from Africa and who needs help raising money is eligible to apply. You only need to have sent in an application to an adoption agency and had your application accepted. You do not have to have completed your home study. Please click here to go to http://www.goseeklove.com/partner_faq.html for all of the specific information about how to apply. It is very easy!

Unfortunately, we only have the infrastructure and inventory to allow us to work with one family at time. But if God allows, we plan to continue this indefinitely, partnering with a new family every three months.

The job of the partner family is just MARKETING. Blog about it, send out email blasts to your friends and family, and write about the T-shirts on Facebook and Twitter. Your profits will depend on how well you promote your cause. We will do all of the order fulfillment, and we will send you a check with 100% of the net proceeds once a month.

If you are interested check out the details on our website and get your application in a.s.a.p. (Deadline is May 1st.) We will make our decision by Monday May 10th. If you have any questions, feel free to email us at family@duboisadoption.com. We can't wait to hear from you!

Go. Seek. Love.: The Next Chapter

I mentioned in a recent post that I would soon have an exciting announcement about our “Go. Seek. Love.” T-shirts. We have been so blessed through selling them. Recently our sales have picked up tremendously thanks to a few blogger friends who have helped to spread the word. We have shipped out shirts to 24 different states!

We’ve gotten positive feedback on our shirts, and we are reluctant to let a good thing die. We worked hard to prepare the website, to create the design, to build the infrastructure to run our own little business…. People like the shirts, and they are spreading a great message.

We have now raised all the money that we need for our adoption (Praise God!), and so we no longer need to sell them to add to our own adoption fund. But there are plenty of other adoptive families out there who could use a boost.

And so..... We would like to introduce you to the Dixon family.

Effective immediately, 100% of the proceeds from “Go. Seek. Love.” T-shirt and note card sales will benefit this wonderful family’s adoption of a baby girl from Ethiopia.



Duane and Jenny Dixon



Micah (4), Sophia (2), and Noah (9)

We are so excited to get to do this. It really is more fun to give than to receive. During our fundraising we found it hard to be humble enough to let other people give to us. But we learned that if you deny others to opportunity to give, you are denying them to blessing of giving, and of being part of bringing home your child and having their heart engaged with Africa, Ethiopia, and the needs that exist there. But now it's our turn! We get to be on the fun side of giving!

So check out our new and updated website: www.goseeklove.com And buy a T-shirt while you are there! You can read more about the Dixon family's adoption story on the website and on their adoption blog.

Also, please help us to spread the word by adding a blog badge to your blog or website. Just copy and paste the html below. Thank you!



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