Meet The Barnett Family

David and Stephanie Barnett have been married since 1997.  In 2002, they adopted a beautiful baby boy at birth whom they named Copeland Shane.  A few years later, Stephanie felt the Lord leading them to adopt a child with Down syndrome so they began to pray that God would open the doors for that to happen.  Three years later, in 2008, God orchestrated the adoption of a newborn baby with Ds whom they named Silas Eli.  Silas immediately rocked David’s, Stephanie’s, and Copeland’s world.  David and Stephanie both knew that the Lord would eventually end up leading them to adopt more children with Ds so they began to pray about it.  

In late 2010, the Barnett’s were led to Reece’s Rainbow.  After much prayer, the Lord opened the doors for them to commit to three orphans with Down syndrome from Ukraine with the help of Reece’s Rainbow.  In October 2011, David and Stephanie landed on US soil with their newly adopted children.  Teague Josiah (“Igor” on RR), Maclayne Faith (“Leeza” on RR), and Trenton (“Trenton” on RR) are absolutely thriving in their forever family.  After months of prayer and earnest discussion with each other and Copeland, the Barnett’s have once again answered the call to adopt three orphans with Down syndrome.  This time, they have committed to Greta, Felix, and Romeo.  Their adoption dossier has been submitted to the children’s country and the Barnett’s are anxiously awaiting travel dates.

Meet The Precadio Family

"Hi! 

We are so happy to be a part of the 5/5/5/ families this month-We love nothing more than sharing this joy with other families! What is a blessing if it can't be shared? 

We wanted to share with you all a little about us: 

We always knew we wanted to adopt to begin our family, and we actually discussed adoption on our first date, and 2nd, and 3rd, and wedding day (which was all in a 6 month time frame!). Less than a year into our marriage, we found our Lucy-girl through the Reece's Rainbow site, and committed to her through Madison; it took a lot of convincing to everyone involved: we hadn't been married the required 2 years as set by China, and we hadn't parented before, as preferred by our agency. After phone interviews, conversations, a drilling home study, and sharing of the hearts, our agency accepted us and China approved our marriage length waiver! Fast forward to recently, when our agency was in China to visit some of their partnership orphanages and foster programs, and they were able to visit our sweet girl's foster home: there they discovered she and one of her foster brothers were very bonded and attached, (he is a sweet and deserving boy no family has ever inquired about :( ). The agency called to present this to us, and we immediately said, "Yes! We'd love to make him our son too!". So, now, here we are, racing to catch "Luke" up to Lucy-girl in the process. We are so excited to be able to keep these precious ones that have lived their lives together as brother and sister remaining forever brother and sister! God's ways are perfect and infinite and beautiful! Tears fill our eyes thinking of how He works all things together for His good, and His children's good. What a beautiful story He is allowing us to be a part of! Thank you for coming beside us and the other families this month, it is such  joy and an honor!

Meet the Piatt Family

My name is Tami Piatt and I am a single mom to 4 beautiful girls. My oldest daughter, Suzanna, is 25 and a  wonderful big sister. Elisa is almost 15 and was adopted from Bulgaria almost 14 years ago. Mary, 13, and Lara, age 11, were adopted from China.  I have followed Reece's Rainbow for many years and prayed so many of these children home yet felt my family was complete. Then in the spring of 2013 I saw a picture of a beautiful little girl that I knew instantly was my daughter. I had no idea how I would finance another adoption but God opened the doors that fall in ways that I could never have imagined. We are now so close to having her in our arms forever. This has truly been a family journey as my girls are all old enough to be part of this adoption. Our Sophie is not yet aware of how much she is already loved and wanted. God has been good to us. 

Meet the Nap Family.

Than and Sarah Nap have talked about adopting “someday” since they met 20 years ago.  The Lord has blessed them with 6 biological children ages 13, 10, 7, 5, 3 and 20 months.  In June of last year, they saw “Lenny” on Reeces Rainbow and knew that he was their son.  They finally started the adoption process in March. The last 8 months have been a whirlwind of paperwork, waiting, learning American Sign Language (Lenny is deaf), fundraising, and waiting some more.  They are now anxiously anticipating their Travel Approval to fly to China and bring him home prayerfully in as little as 4-6 weeks.

The Horvath Family.

We are the Horvath family. 

Istvan, Anna, Hadassah, Seraphina and our coming boys Max Emmaus (Travis) and Boaz (Devan)

Istvan grew up in a Hungarian orphanage from the age of 2 until he aged out. He and Anna met while both serving in that same orphanage with a sports ministry. 

They now live in Iowa with their growing family and as so blessed to have been able to grow their family through adoption. 

God is SO good to have provided every step along the way. The Horvath family is only $15,000 away from being fully funded for their January trip to get their boys!

An update.

This is what your donations are doing!!! 

From the Jenks family:

We would like to thank the 5/5/5 for families community for helping us with our fundraising for our adoption!! We have just completed our third and final trip to our girls' birth country and they are now home forever!!! ❤ Thank you so much for bringing orphans and families together!!!

The picture of the lock is a tradition for adopting families from Latvia... the bridge is filled with locks of love, we added ours to the hundreds of other locks that were placed on the bridge. 😊  After we put our lock on, the girls threw the keys in the water 😊 Forever a Family!!!

http://reecesrainbow.org/555families

The Nelms Family

Tiffany started her adoption journey approximately two years ago, but it has been a lifelong dream. She traveled extensively in Latin America and fell in love with Colombia, it's music, food and people. In July 2013 a fellow adoptive mom connected Tiffany with Heartsent Adoptions. A six year old boy from Colombia caught her eye and she knew he was meant to be her son. Tiffany hopes to travel to Colombia in early 2015. Your donation will help cover the last expenses of her adoption, which will likely exceed $40,000. Tiffany will be a single parent and is adopting for the first time.

The Orta Family.

We are Raymundo, Christie, and Laura Orta and we are so excited to be adopting Evan from EE-4.  We first saw Evan's picture on RR last October and knew immediately that he was our son.  We started fundraising for the start-up agency fees in November.  In February we officially committed to Evan with the adoption agency and have been fundraising for what feel like forever (some good and some bad).  We are extremely grateful to be chosen for this wonderful opportunity in hopes it will bring us one step closer to bringing Evan to his forever family.

Meet the Barrett family.

Michelle is a single mother to her six children. She has four biological children and two that she adopted from the US Foster Care System three years ago. Her oldest daughter, Brittany, and son-in-law have blessed her with a 3 year old granddaughter and a grandson born Feb 2014. She also has a 20 year old son, Chase, who is a Manager at a retail store and will be attending the Police Academy. She has a 19 year old daughter, Chelsea, who is a full time employee and student. She is a college student majoring in Health Services and plans to become an Adoption Social Worker. She has a 17 year old son, Andrew, who has Autism and is a very successful senior at his Private Christian School. He plans to attend College of Central Florida when he graduates and major in Equine Studies (Horse Studies). Michelle adopted a medically needy sibling group from the US Foster Care System. They are biological siblings only one year apart but never lived together until she adopted them. Her son is 6 years old, just started Kindergarten, has Arthrogryposis of his upper and lower limbs and is a double amputee with amazing Iron-Man prosthetics. He is no longer medically needy. Her daughter is 5 years old, has had numerous surgeries on her hip, has lower limb difference, wears leg braces and her cancer is in remission after a year of infusions and treatments. She is also no longer medically needy. She homeschools her two youngest children.

Michelle’s parents were Foster Parents for 18 years while she was growing up and she had always known that she would adopt one day. She did adopt and is now adopting again. It is hard to adopt as a single mother from anywhere and even harder to adopt as a single mother who already has Special Needs children a home. She is adopting a beautiful three year old boy from China. He just turned three in August and she will be traveling in early Oct to bring him home.

During this journey Michelle has meet so many other adoptive families through facebook but she has also met over 35 adoptive families in her small town. She started an adoption support group that meets monthly and is a HUGE support to all involved. Several of the families have adopted through the assistance of Reece’s Rainbow. These families can not wait to have Michelle’s son home in a few weeks so they can greet her at the airport, the kids can play together and grow up as great friends with great stories as to how all of their mom’s rallied together to bring them to their forever families. Some of the children that he will be growing up with are Kolya Brook, Bella Brook, Dunham Quinn, Edgar Quinn, Max Wetherington, Ryder Wetherington, Anchor Wetherington, Stori Wetherington, Nikita Sotolongo, Dima Monier, Grace Monier, Kole House, Gabe House, and Levi House. All in ONE town plus MORE!!!

Meet the Fristoe Family.

We are a family of 7 waiting on number 8.  Elizabeth is 13 1/2 years old and will age out on Dec.1, 2014.  This will be our second adoption from China, but first teenager.  We are looking forward to this new adventure and are currently waiting on our LOA.  We are currently decorating her room, deciding on her American name and trying to patiently wait for her to get here.

Meet the Averett Family

The Averett family recently adopted an amazing little boy with Down Syndrome that they found on Reece’s Rainbow (Percy on RR) and are now adding to lifes adventure by adopting Leandra and Andy. They always knew they wanted a large family. They are an active family and have many passions and hobbies and do everything together. Their youngest son with Down Syndrome has lightened their lives and has brought more happiness and laughter to the family than they ever could have imagined. After finding and donating to Leandras Angel Tree Grant they knew that she too belonged in their family and they started another adoption journey.

Meet the Lee Family.

We are the Lee Family adopting 2 children from China! We can not wait to bring our newest daughter (9yrs) and son(5yrs) home to join our already adventurous family! We are in the beginning stages of our LOA wait, but excited that this is our last longest wait. You always hear it takes a Village and starting the adoption journey proves that theory right!  Please join in our families village to bring our children home!

Learn more about the Lee family and follow their journey on their blog.  

Want to help the Lees and four other families this month?  What about 60 families this year?  Consider making a one-time or recurring donation on the 5/5/5 for Families page.  

Meet The Duvall Family

You can learn more about the Duvall family and follow their journey on their blog.  

Want to help the Duvalls and four other families this month?  What about 60 families this year?  Consider making a one-time or recurring donation on the 5/5/5 for Families page.  

Meet the Lehmanns

Meet this month's fifth family. The Lehmanns. 

Hi we are Brian & Keri we have been blessed with 17 years of marriage but we are missing a piece of our family, children. We have been unable to start a family of our own naturally, and did not want to pursue other options when there are children here now needing homes. Keri's mother was adopted and so that had planted the seed of wanting to adopt, even if we were able to have a bio kid. After the Lord led us to find Meredith we fell in LOVE and bonded quickly. Then after a little over a month of praying, waiting and seeking God’s perfect will, He gave us a clear answer, “she is your daughter”. With Faith trumping fear we began our journey to bring her home while God trained us to TRUST Him more.

We have been through numerous trials and road blocks with Meredith’s adoption, we really could write a book. To sum up...the paper trail of Meredith went cold, no one could tell us anything, in addition her country was going through changes in how adoptions were handled. You could no longer specify a particular child and all the childrens pictures & profiles from Meredith's country were pulled off agency and adoption websites. But we had already learned of her... In October 2012 with much frustration and confusion and the agency wanting a big amount of $ we put a hold on the adoption process. We met with our social worker and discussed options...she told us to grieve Meredith...devastating! But in God's still small voice deep in our hearts and soul we were going to keep the faith & keep fighting for her, and listen to what the Lord had already spoken. Soon miracles started happening, little ones and BIG ones. With God’s help we tracked down where Meredith was living and found out she was still available for adoption. Then March 21, 2013 we were officially matched with our sweet daughter! It was a total shock to our agency and social workers, this was not supposed to happen! God can move mountains and HE DOES and He can change outcomes of International politics. There continued to be delays and ups and downs but in the end ...GOD WON!!! Leaving on a jet plane August 26, 2014! And God willing we will ALL be HOME September 18th! Thank you Jesus!!! And thank you to all those that have supported us financially we are about $6000 away from being fully funded, yeah! But more importantly thank you so much for your prayers.

Want to help this family?  How about 5 families this month?  60 families this year?  Make your monthly donation of $5 or more here.

Meet the Kindalls

Meet our fourth family. The Kindalls.

We are the Kindall family! I'm Mali and my husband is Gavin and we have been married for ten years; after only seven weeks of dating! You could call us crazy, but when you know you know, right! We have a beautiful three year old boy named Jet and are in the process of adopting a beautiful ten year old boy from a small Easter European country. It has always been in our hearts to adopt one day. Although in our minds it would happen in a few years. God had other plans. We were in the process of adopting two precious little girls from Russia when Americans were banned from adopting from there. After much heartbreak has come something very beautiful and that is bringing home our son.

"Dylan" was given up by his parents at birth because he has Down syndrome. As a result he spent the first 10 years of his life in a couple different orphanages. The mistreatment that he has experienced in his early years of life has left his body scarred but not his heart. He is full of love and excitement for life and very deserving of a loving family. He loves to dance and is very athletic. He is sharp and learns quickly. Whenever there is a task to be done he is right there ready to help. He is a sweet boy and loves his little brother Jet.

We were required to spend the month of April with him in his home country for bonding. Then we were able to return back to the US in May with our boy on a visitor/medical visa having temporary custody until the end of October. His adoption needs to be finalized by then; meaning we still need to make two more trips back to his country. The second trip is in September and that will be court. Then the third trip is to complete all the Embassy paperwork and needs to be done before his visa expires. The process of adoption ended up costing 10K more than originally planned. This was due to an increase in airfare to the country and having to spend 20 more days in country than their agency originally believed. If the adoption isn't finalized in time our sweet son will have to return to the orphanage until we can come up with the funds to finalize the adoption.

Our family cannot wait to finalize the adoption of our handsome and amazing "Dylan"! The thought of him having to return to an orphanage is heartbreaking. Seeing him with his family you wouldn't know that he hasn't always been with us...he is home.

So much love and support has already been shown and given to both our family and our "Dylan" to help bring him home and to keep him here…..we would like to thank everyone with our whole hearts!

Want to help this family?  How about 5 families this month?  60 families this year?  Make your monthly donation of $5 or more here.

Meet the Fraleys

“I don’t want kids”

“I never want to go to India”

“I don’t want to work with teenagers”

That’s how our adoption journey started. Three absolute statements made in the confidence of youth about how we expected our life as a couple to unfold.  Looking back, we wish we would have said something like, “I never want to be independently wealthy” or “I don’t want a beach house” cause absolute statements like that seem to make God want to prove He has a sense of humor…

Aaron and Julie (that’s us!) met at Bible Collage and were married soon after graduation.  While they had hoped to find work in a local church, a strong attachment to living in a house with the associated comforts forced them to settle into boring adult jobs.  After four years of this, Aaron was begging God for any job doing what he actually went to school for.  And lo and behold, a church position opened up…as a youth pastor.  Desperate to escape another day of data entry, Aaron had a change of heart about that whole “working with teens” thing and took the job.  Surprise, surprise, he loved it!  

After a few years of working with other people’s kids, the idea of having one of their own began to grow on them.  After five years of marriage, they welcomed their daughter, Winter, into the family.  It didn’t take long to realize that they loved being parents!  Two years later, Noah came along, adding a son to the party.  Being a mom and dad turned out to be the most rewarding thing they had ever done.  Soon they were thinking about adding some more kids to the fam.  But some health problems for Julie prevented them from growing their family.

But then, an idea!  A stoke of genius!  Why not adopt?  Julie’s dad had been adopted, so it was something that the family had been aware of.  Why not grow our family that way?  After a ton of research, we decided that adoption was the plan for us!  Now the question was, where should we adopt from?  I’m pretty sure you have guessed the answer.  Coincidently, Aaron’s best friend was Indian and we had the opportunity to learn about the country, the culture, and the need that so many children had for a mom and a dad.  We could fill that need!  We are really good at being a mom and dad!  

So we went from “never going to India” to “I cannot wait another minute to go to India!”  Why the change?  Because there are two beautiful little girls over there that are Fraleys even if they don’t know it yet.  After going through the application process and a forest worth of paper work charmingly known as a dossier, we were matched with two sisters, Abigail (6) and Autumn (3).  Now we are playing the waiting game as governments move oh so very slowly in finalizing the adoption and getting our girls home to us.  While we wait, we are working hard to raise the remaining $5000 we need to travel.  Hopefully we will receive news soon from India that we have a court date and can bring our cuties home!

Want to help this family?  How about 5 families this month?  60 families this year?  Make your monthly donation of $5 or more here.

Introducing Dell and Kiril's Family

Introducing our second family for the month! 

Dell and Kiril's family! 

We are so excited to bring Dell and Kiril home where they will be treasured and loved unconditionally. Our whole family is anxiously waiting until the boys are home forever! We appreciate being chosen as one of this months 555 families. Thank you so much for your prayers and financial support as we prepare to travel in the next few weeks to bring our boys home.

Want to help this family?  How about 5 families this month?  60 families this year?  Make your monthly donation of $5 or more here.

Meet The Jenks

First family bio for the month, introducing the Jenks family! 

We are just a regular family who has felt lead to adopt. We have four bio kids ages 24-16. After years of trying to have another baby, Rebecca had to have an emergency hysterectomy in 2011. We started to explore other ways to add children to our loving family. We were open to the idea of adoption, and had considered children with special needs, but it was not until we were sitting in church one evening praying for God to give us a sign, when a group of teens and adults with Down syndrome came and saw in the pew right in front of us that we knew this was the path we were going to be taking. In 2012 we adopted Veronika (now 3) and Gavyn (will be 3 in Sept) - they both have DS. We felt strongly that God was leading us to international adoption again and this time an older child with DS. When we saw Veronika listed on RR we instantly knew she was to be our daughter. Six months later we added Emilija to our adoption as well.

We met the girls for the first time in March and they have been with us ever since on a visitor's visa. While they have been with us since March (in the USA since April) their visas will expire in October, so our adoption has to be final before October!! We have our second trip to their country this month for their orphan court, and then our third trip in Sept where we will finalize their adoption.

Want to help this family?  How about 5 families this month?  60 families this year?  Make your monthly donation of $5 or more here.

Your Impact

I (Natalie) had lunch with a previous 5/5/5 family this week. The mom was telling me that their adoption of two children was going to cost $60,000!!! 

Even if the pay $500 a month from their own budget (a huge amount), that will only bring them to $6,000 in a year. That's only 10%!!! That still leaves them needing $54,000!!! 

While their numbers are extreme, the cost of adoption is high. Families need help.

You may look at that number and think your $5 isn't going to help. But it is!!!

400 people have liked the facebook page. If everyone gave $5, we'd have $400 to give to 60 different families this year. If 10 of their friends also gave $5, we'd be able to give 60 families $4,000 each! If ten of their friends gave $5, we could fully fund 60 families a year.

$5 adds up. It really does help.

http://reecesrainbow.org/555families

Meet the Greenes

Final Family this month is the Greene family!! Hello! We are the Greene's! We have been married for over 7 years and up until now have been the happy parents of just Georgia and Jasper, but we look forward to bringing home a big brother for them soon! We are adopting from Latin America and our son is almost 6 years old, Deaf and Autistic. We started this process over a year ago and we are jumping through the final hoops to get our referral any time now! We appreciate so much everyone's support and we are very honored and excited to be one of 5/5/5's first families!!! We hope this grows into a HUGE BLESSING for all the families to come!

You can read more about them on their Reece's Rainbow page.  You can also follow their blog.  

Meet the Kirks

The Kirk family is our fourth family benefitting this month!

 Hi! We are Steve, Brooke, and Nicholas Kirk, and we are adopting Ian from Bulgaria. I (Brooke) will leave on 7/29 to go back to Bulgaria and will come home with our son on August 13th!! We have been working hard to bring our son home for the past 18 months and are so excited that the time is finally near! I first became aware of the plight of orphans with special needs about 3.5 years ago when I joined a local homeschool group and met my friend Mandy who was in the process of adopting two little boys with Down Syndrome from Bulgaria. It was through following her journey that I found Reece's Rainbow and all the precious children waiting for families. It was Mandy who shared Ian's picture on her facebook page and I just knew that he was meant to be our son! We have been so blessed by the love and support shown to our family by the Reece's Rainbow community, our family, friends, church family and even total strangers.

You can read more about them on their Reece's Rainbow page.  You can also follow their blog.  

Incentives to Donate

First we would like to say a big thank you to all who have liked our Facebook page and who have donated to the 5/5/5 for Families fund. We are very excited to see that we are over $700 for the first month.

Some of our 5/5/5 families have incentives to help get our donations even higher. Below you will find the items and how much you would need to donate if you wish to receive them. All donations will need to go to the 5/5/5 Fund. 

Please comment on the FACEBOOK page that will be linked below each picture if you make a donation and want that specific item. The items will be on a first come basis. 

Also, if you contribute money towards an item it is for that one item. In other words, if you contribute $25 and there is a $25 item and a $15 item you will need to decide which one of those items you would like to receive. 

Again, we are grateful to all who have donated and to those who have set up recurring donations. We are already taking applications for next month's families. 

Most of our 5/5/5 families for this month will be traveling in August to either meet or bring home the children. So it is a very important fundraising time for them. We are hoping these incentives will help us reach our funding goals. 

Katrina Morriss will make a homemade doll baby carrier for the first person who donates at least $25 and leaves a comment on the FB page. This carrier fits up to size 6 year old and holds a large doll that can wear newborn size clothing. You can also turn the baby around and button the top part up so the baby's head does not flop around. This material is Matryoshka doll material. 

Facebook Link

The Aschoff family has added some incentives to help us grow this month's donations too. 

For a $25 donation they also have this shirt available in an adult large.

Please comment on the FB Page.  

For a $25 donation this shirt is available in either an adult large or a youth small.

Please comment on the FB Page.  

They also have these beautiful bracelets for the first 

26 people to donate $15 to the 5/5/5 account and comment on the FB Page.

 And last they have these wonderful bumper stickers 

for the first 50 people who donate $10 to the 5/5/5 account and comment on the FB Page. 

If you don't see anything you need but can donate $5 that would still be a huge help. It all adds up and we are excited to soon be showing you these families once they come home so you can see what $5 can do in the life of a child. 

Thanks again for the support. Remember to share, share, share for us. 

Together, we will move mountains so love crosses oceans. 

Meet the Tiltons

Here is our third family!! The Tilton family! We are the Tilton family. Just when we thought retirement was around the corner, we took a leap of faith and we are thrilled to be adopting two children from China! Our son Oliver is five and our daughter Gracie is six. We found our daughter on Reece’s Rainbow and it was love at first sight. After a few months, we decided to add a brother and we were thrilled when we found Oliver. We will travel during the first part of August to make them part of our forever family. Thank you so much for your support and for supporting 5/5/5 and Reece’s Rainbow.

You can read more about them on their Reece's Rainbow page.  You can also follow their blog.  

Meet the Aschoffs

Here's our second 5/5/5 family. The Ashcoffs. 

Hello! We are Ted, Jodi and Kayella Aschoff. We will be bringing Leo home from Hong Kong this fall and have been working hard over the last year to get him home. We chose to grow our family through international adoption for many reasons but one of the main reasons was to give a child a safe home that needed one. We went through some heartache with domestic adoption (of a little boy with down syndrome also) and decided that International adoption was definitely our first choice in growing our family. Once Kayella came home from Colombia we decided she needed a brother (or sister) to play with. We saw Leo's picture and fell immediately in love with him and knew he was ours. Kayella (and us) are really excited to get Leo home and show the world that adoption is not scary! Thank you for helping our family as well as the other 5/5/5 families with their final stretch of adoption funding.

You can learn more about them on their Reece's Rainbow page.  You can also follow their blog.  

Meet the VanHalles

Meet our first 5/5/5 family. The VanHalles. 

Angie and Jason never planned on adoption, but the more they learned about how much of a need there was, the more they felt called to act. Their first child, Claudia, came home on Valentine's Day 2013. 9 months later, they decided to change their plans to try to have biological children again, and committed to adopt 'Chance' who is almost 2, but as their home study was nearing completion they felt called to add an older child 'Callie', who is almost 11. Jason and Angie are very excited for Claudia to have a little brother to pick on and a big sister to look up to, and are hopeful that everyone will be home this time next year.

You can learn more about the VanHalles on their Reece's Rainbow page.  You can also follow their blog.  

What is 5/5/5 for Families?

Here is the official answer:

Welcome to our new supporters, advocates, and adoptive families! So many of us have wanted to give to Reece's Rainbow families in ways that make an impact for a few families at a time. That's what 5/5/5 for Families is all about.

Each month, from a pool of nominees, 5 families will be featured. On the 5th of the following month, all the donations to our RR page will be divided evenly among those 5 families. That day, we'll also introduce you to the 5 new families for the next month. We'll share a little of each family's story, and hope you might even consider making a recurring donation to help us bring more love and support to families whose efforts might go unrecognized otherwise.

Here's How to Help:
Helping is easy. Donors are needed to donate $5, $25 or any other amount monthly (just click the "make this recurring" box at the paypal check out). You can also make a one-time gift. These small (and larger) donations really add up and help families who are close to traveling.


Who can be nominated (aka--our best attempt at fine print!):
There will be 5 featured countries each month. Each country will be rotated in alphabetical order) Nominated families must have Family Sponsorship Pages (FSP) set up through Reece's Rainbow. The families will be emailed a nomination form which must be returned by the last day of the month, so make sure you include their email address! 5/5/5 Families will be chosen based on previous fund raising attempts, financial need, and how soon their travel dates are. Families must have an open FSP on the 5th of the following month, as all monies are held and distributed through the 5/5/5 for Families link on the Reece's Rainbow main site. Strong candidates will show that they have tried to raise the money needed for their adoption. If they are selected, families must also be willing to make a $5 donation for 5/5/5 Families for 6 months.
5 families from the current pool of countries will be chosen, not necessarily one from each country. Families who are not chosen will be eligible again when their country comes back into the rotation. Families will remain eligible until their adoptions are complete.


In summary: 


Donors: Make your monthly donation here!  You can set it up as a recurring donation and you don't have to try to remember monthly!


Families: If your country is currently featured and you are getting close to travel, please let us know that you would like to be considered by messaging this page. We will announce the new families on the 5th of the month.


Donors and Families: Please share our facebook page, our blog, our twitter account, and encourage friends and family to donate!


The 5/5/5 committee is made up of 5 women who have been involved in adoptions in Russia, Latin America, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Lithuania, and China. Our goal is to give a little to make a big impact for RR families adopting from all over the world.

Here is the unofficial answer:


We are a group of moms who have adopted (or are adopting) internationally and know the struggles of fund raising while completing an adoption and maintaining a home and family.  We know how hard people work to bring their children home.  We want to help.  None of us are rich and none of us can do it on our own.  But, we all have at least $5 a month, right? 

Our goal is to help 5 families that have been working for months and are almost ready to bring their children home.  We want to help them get over that one last hurdle.

We also want to help people see the power in small donations.  Whether it's $5 a month, $1 a day, $5 a week, $5 a month to each family, $5 a day....whatever amount you have is not too small when we all join forces!