APPROVED!

 Our Homestudy is approved!!!

Since beginning to search for agencies in late February, to finding our child in March, announcing our adoption to our families in April, conducting our homestudy and educating ourselves in May, we have arrived at June!

We received our full homestudy approval Monday, June 09 and we are so pleased to be able to announce the adoption of our child to our world! Tony and I have been overwhelmed by the response of those closest to us in theses early days of the adoption process and we are trusting God as we move forward in our journey.

Photo credit Haverlee Colyer

The next steps for us involve filing government paper work, filing for and receiving our visas, compiling our dossier of important paperwork with the help of Bethany Services Dossier Specialist and continuing our adoption education. We are still unaware of what our exact timeline is, but because we have an identified child we expect the process to run quite quickly. It is likely we will travel within the next 6 months to bring our child home!

Tony and I have seen God work in amazing ways throughout this process so far and we are continuing to trust Him in the impossible. Through the generous support of close friends and God's provision we have been able to stay current on all of our payments to Bethany up to this point. We are now waiting for paperwork to go through and more funds to be raised so we can move forward. We continue to trust that as we move forward God will provide as necessary. We invite you into this incredible process and humbly ask for your support both financially and through prayer as we continue.

Please pray for smooth processes both with the US and with the country of origin. Pray for discernment for Tony and me as we press on in the areas of family development, connectedness in our marriage and readiness for the changes that lie ahead for our family. Pray also for wisdom in our finances and provision in this area.

We also ask for special prayer for our little one who is so far from us. Pray for those working with our child that they feel loved and cared for as they care for our child. Please ask God to comfort our child with real and tangible human touch. Pray also for the physical care and nourishment of our child.

Most of all we ask that you rejoice with us in a God who loves so desperately! Our hearts are filled to overflowing by the love and grace of Jesus and we are so excited to welcome the gift of this child into our family!

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Originally posted: 6/12/14 on our YouCaring site.