Welcome to the online home for our silent auction! All proceeds from this action will go towards adoption costs and make building our Duffy family possible. These items were either donated or sponsored by friends, family, and local businesses that we love!
This will allow us to know exactly how to get ahold of each bidder to thank you and hopefully tell you what you win!
Check out the links below and make a plan for what you hope to bid on.
When bidding opens, go to your favorite item’s link for the form to enter your bid. Each item’s page will have a link to to the Bidding Sheet which lets everyone stay up on where the most current bid is.
Check your item’s Bidding Sheet regularly to make sure you don’t lose out on that favorite item.
Bidding closes at 6:30 pm (Arizona time) on March 16th. Those attending our fundraising dinner, can see some of the items in person and can continue to bid using their phone or personal device. All bidding will be done virtually.
How do I know if I won?
Winners will be announced at our dinner on March 16th. Winners who are participating virtually will be contacted per their bidding registration preference that same night! If you attend the dinner, you can go home with your prize. If you participate virtually, we will be in contact for delivery or shipping details.
Steve and I are excited to announce that we have begun a new adventure –growing our family through adoption! Just this last week, our home study and application were approved by the state of Arizona! Now our adoption agency – Adoption Solutions of Arizona, based in Tucson, will begin sharing our profile with birth moms making the incredible choice of which family they will entrust with their precious child. Please be praying for those moms and the moms who are still considering adoption – what a beautiful and courageous choice to choose life and give a precious gift to families like ours!
So, while we wait for the wonderful news that a birth mom has chosen us – we have the daunting task of raising funds for our adoption. We will be saving like crazy, raising money, and applying for grants from groups that fund adoptions in hopes of meeting our goal of $35,000 – 40,000! Here’s how that breaks down:
$30,000 – Agency costs for the Adoption
$3,000 – 5,000 – Estimated Legal Fees
$2,000 – 5,000 – Estimated Costs to Assist Birth Mother Before and After Birth
Our goal is to raise as much as possible to avoid debt. And we have some fun ideas and NEED YOUR HELP. Below you’ll find fun ways that you can participate.
We cannot tell you what your encouragement, offers to help, donations, cupcake orders, and moral support have meant to us! This process has also offered a tremendous lesson with the constant reminders of the loving community we have been blessed with! We cannot wait to bring “Baby Duffy” into this community and someday tell him or her how God brought so many together to help make our family’s dreams come true.
Sincerely,
Steve and Amanda Duffy
How you can help!
February 16-17th – Yard Sale: Are you purging your closets and dropping things off at Goodwill? Spring cleaning and getting rid of furniture you don’t use anymore? Instead of going to your local donation spot – consider donating your items to our yard sale. We will even pick up your donations – just call Steve at (480) 363-0979 to arrange a time! (We might also need extra hands and tables to borrow too!)
Now until February 17th at 7 PM – Flip-Flop Farms Raffle: A dear friend who owns a farm has offered to raffle off the chance to win $800 worth of pasture-raised, non-GMO pork (a full half of a hot). $50 for every ticket to enter. You can pick the cuts of meat and trust that this is primo pork and bacon! If interested, contact Amanda to purchase a ticket.
March 14-16th – Silent Auction: We are going to have an online silent auction (you can even participate if you don’t live in AZ!) Before we can set this up, we need donations. Would you consider donating an item or service to be auctioned off? Here are a couple of examples:
Artwork – My dad makes beautiful pieces of art using various types of wood to create different colors and textures. He has generously offered this piece for the auction Do you have goods – art, baked goods, etc. that can be auctioned?
Service/Skill – A dear friend has offered a photography session for those living in AZ. Do you have a skill/service you can offer to be auctioned?
Tickets – Would you consider gifting tickets to a special event (spring training tickets, professional sporting events, concerts, theatre, festivals)?
Themed Gift Bags/Gift Certificates– Would you consider donating gift certificates for restaurants, movies, salons, etc.? Perhaps create a basket of goodies around a theme: Self-Care, Game Night, Movie Night, Home Cook Essentials, etc.
If interested, we hope to have all donated auction items by March 12th. Of course, we will also need bidders! Set the date for March 14-16th to view and bid at the Auction.
March 16th – Adoption Dinner: Save the date for our in-person fundraiser. We will be debuting a family cookbook that you can pre-order. And the dinner will feature a Rossiter favorite recipe “Okie Tacos,” and several homemade desserts, of course! The night will include other fun activities including the conclusion of the silent auction. More details to come, but tickets will be $20 for adults and $10 for children under 12. (Under 2 are free).
Cupcakes/Cakes: Do you have a birthday party and need a cake or cupcakes? Consider ordering from Amanda!
Give: A few of my friends also asked us for a way to simply donate to our adoption directly. If that’s for you, then please use Venmo (@Amanda-Rossiter) or Zelle at (480) 737-3504.
Pray: We want to ask you to not only pray for us and for the adoption to go smoothly but we have also been called to come alongside our future child’s birth mom. So, we want to ask you to pray for her.
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