Answered Prayer for Timing!

A lot has happened since my last update!  We have started on our home study & are doing paperwork, appointments, more & more paperwork! I have gotten my background checks ordered, ordered my passport, requested child abuse clearances, etc. We have lots more to do with our home study before they will start the interviews. They have to have every piece of required paperwork before they will schedule anything. Once the interviews are done that will complete our home study & they will either approve or deny our home study. Of course praying for approval!!!

Today I got an answer to prayers! Jeremy had his doctor's appointment scheduled for the middle of October. Medical letters are required as part of paperwork before interviews can begin. Of course that is a ways away & was going to hold up the process by about 6 weeks! I got a hold of his doctor today & they just opened a new adult cardiology clinic & were scheduling earlier appointments. I was able to get everything in next week!!!! If everything goes as planned we should have all of the paperwork ready by early September & be able to schedule our interviews. They couldn't tell me the timeline for interviews. I am hoping those are done quickly after. Once we have an approved home study we can officially start with our adoption agency, West Sands, (if they accept us) & can start working on our paperwork for Ethiopia. I'm really hoping that everything can be done & sent out to Ethiopia by the end of the year! Once our paperwork is sent out to Ethiopia we begin the WAITING game for a referral. Because we're adopting a child with a special need, it's hard to tell how long we will wait. It could be a few months or a year for a referral. Of course hoping for earlier! God knows who our child is already & when they will be given to us! (I just need patience to wait for him)

Of course with this good news it means that we will need to raise money sooner! We will need at least $6,000 by the middle of September to be able to start on our paperwork for Ethiopia! That seems like an enormous amount of money!!! And it is, but God can & will provide!

Please continue to pray for our family & our child(ren) across the world! Pray that God will provide the finances in the right time & that he will give us patience to wait on him! If you or anyone you know feels called to donate to our adoption, please check out our fundraising page for details. Thanks!!!