Adoption

Some of you have been asking for an update on the adoption. I will do my best to bring you up to speed on what is going on. We are adopting a child from Ethiopia, the child will be 24 months or younger. We will be sending in our dossier paperwork in the next month and a half or so. From that time on we will be waiting and praying for our referral, (our child). This will take 12-15 months, once we have our referral it will take 2-3 months until we travel to go and pick up our child. Realistically we are looking at the winter of 2010 when we will come home with our child. We greatly appreciate all your prayer and words of encouragement as we continue down this path that God is leading us on. It is definitely a new journey and there are things we learn each day and each week about ourselves and about who God is. It has been good for Gwen and I to apply for grants. Some of the questions in there have made us think and ask some tough questions. For example, what do you believe to be the most important thing you can impart to your child? What desires do you have for your children as they grow up? What does the Bible mean to you? Who is Jesus to you? Just to name a few of the questions that we think about and you know in your head but when you have to put it down on paper it becomes a little thought provoking to work out your answer to these questions.