Cashing in their ethics

does anyone even question where the $25,000 will go?

does anyone want to know why it is they donated for a certain child yet RR is saying nope you didn't do what we want so you can have the money which will help bring that child home? 

does anyone wonder why a 501c3 organization is acting like an agency when they are NOT one?

OUR FAMILY IS ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT ANDREA ROBERTS IS DOING WE WILL BE TRAVELING OVER TO BRING HOME OUR CHILDREN. 

WE ARE NOT FIRST TIME ADOPTERS AND HAVE SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF TIME AND MONEY HELPING ORPHANS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO LONG AFTER GOD HAS DECIDED WE ARE DONE WITH THE SEASON OF ADOPTING CHILDREN .

WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE BUT WE DO KNOW THE ACTIONS OF ANDREA ROBERTS AND HAVE CHOSEN TO NOT ALLOW HER THE INFORMATION SHE WANTS TO CONTINUE TO DICTATE WHO SHE THINKS SHOULD ADOPT.  WE ALREADY TOOK CARE OF THE SOURCE OF ANDREA'S INFORMATION AND WILL CONTINUE TO WORK TO STOP ANY BULLYING.

OUR FAMILY IS NOT THE ONLY FAMILY WHO HAS ENDURED SENSELESS BULLYING BUT WE HOPE TO BE AMONG THE LAST. 

 RR has now taken to eliminating anyone who has offered support to our family or has even said "hey let's see what all is going on here" from any group in which RR has influence. What did my friends do but just to ask why is the money raised specifically for certain children not being released to the family adopting that child.  Some of these groups are not even exclusively RR yet just for being my friend and offering their support they were kicked out.  In addition, any post regarding our family and any fundraisers helping us have been removed from these rooms as well as from any history in these rooms.  It is like a cult-like mentality where the leader only wants information out that they have personally selected so that the followers will  only know what that person wants them to know and won't question the leader.  I truly don't get it.  This is not being about the children.

Now this had led into 

This was a post which showed up in the RR FB group on July 16.  There will be money given to people who only say good things about RR and have never questioned them.  An anonymous donor has suddenly popped up offering to give money to anyone who is "good" to RR.  Why would anyone do such a thing?    People I knew as friends are willing to take the money. 

Why in the world would the director of an organization want people to say nice things just to get money?  Ours, along with so so many others, mission has been about the children and that is why we are fighting so hard! To say this is for people whose focus is the children is wrong because that person is implyin that those of us who don't agree with Reece's Rainbow and their ways don't care about the children. It is not as if we are heading to say Fiji to adopt a typical infant and are staying in a 4 star hotel.  This grant money is for the fees required to adopt our children.  I did not set the fees nor did we ask for such a long stay in country. 

Besides the grant money, this is about ethical practices of this organization.  What ethical person knowingly calls up USCIS and proceeds to not only attempt to obtain information about our family but also deliberately sets up false statements about our ability to parent?  Last time I checked, all of OUR children are living in our home and doing the best they are able to be doing.   It is wrong to do that because USCIS said it was. 

This whole issue is not about us not completing the application within 10 days of a NON verbal commitment, nor is it about a measley $25 application fee, let alone not signing two places on an application meant for a adoption agency not a ministry. This is about trying to control that which is not their place to control. 

Not once has Andrea Roberts attempted to contact me in any fashion. She has my email, blog address and FB and if she didn't I am sure they could look it up just as they did to find my social worker's information.  I would have spoken with Andrea personally if only she would have returned my emails or even asked me to call her since I do have her phone number.  Yet not one time did she. I made attempts to contact her so we could get this all straightened out so the children would come home.  Sad!

Brian and I can honestly say we have been very honest in all of this. We have shared it all.  WE have made attempts to communicate with Andrea yet all we have received communication from is the donation coordinator and the president of the board.  People will read all of this information and still question "well why didn't you sign such and such?" or "what is it you won't sign?" or even "how could you say such bad things about Andrea and Reece's Rainbow?"  despite all the information being laid out right in front of their eyes.  I am not here to "convince" anyone.  Nor is my husband.  We firmly believe God has called us to each and every one of our children and we will answer only to Him.  We are not perfect parents yet we are perfect of each of our children and that is because God determined it to be so...not mankind!