HOME STUDY IS COMPLETE! I get to pick it up tomorrow.
Appointment Friday with Homeland Security to get our I600A turned in.
Pray for quick approval so we can submit our dossier!
Nick's fundraiser is going well. Schedule now if you want a photo session in time for Christmas gifts!!
Showing posts with label Aiden's Adoption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aiden's Adoption. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Adoption Update
All of our paperwork has been turned in to our social worker who will hopefully write up our Home Study quickly! YIPPEE!!!!
I now have to correct a bunch of our forms for our Dossier that I found out would be rejected if I don't make a few edits. At least I found out before submitting them (thanks Derek and Renee!).
As soon as I have our home study in hand, we get can apply for our I600A.
At that point our Dossier will be ready to submit to our facilitator for translation, I think!
There are always unexpected hang ups with adoption. The one I have to hurdle this week, is getting our Pennsylvania marriage licenses apostilled IN PENNSYLVANIA and quickly! Apparently it's not enough to have them certified in your state of marriage, the apostille has to be done there too. Pray I can figure this one out and get it done speedily- horray for FedEx!
In the mean time we pray for our son and believe for God's protection and mercy to surround him. Please continue to pray for an additional $20,000 to come in for our remaining adoption expenses! I woke up today in a panic over that today, and had to talk to the Father who knows and cares and has no limitation on the resources available to Him to provide for those He loves.
I now have to correct a bunch of our forms for our Dossier that I found out would be rejected if I don't make a few edits. At least I found out before submitting them (thanks Derek and Renee!).
As soon as I have our home study in hand, we get can apply for our I600A.
At that point our Dossier will be ready to submit to our facilitator for translation, I think!
There are always unexpected hang ups with adoption. The one I have to hurdle this week, is getting our Pennsylvania marriage licenses apostilled IN PENNSYLVANIA and quickly! Apparently it's not enough to have them certified in your state of marriage, the apostille has to be done there too. Pray I can figure this one out and get it done speedily- horray for FedEx!
In the mean time we pray for our son and believe for God's protection and mercy to surround him. Please continue to pray for an additional $20,000 to come in for our remaining adoption expenses! I woke up today in a panic over that today, and had to talk to the Father who knows and cares and has no limitation on the resources available to Him to provide for those He loves.
Monday, October 13, 2008
A Solid Investment Opportunity
With the finances of our nation a disaster that I don't even fully understand, I have a solid investment opportunity for you. Invest in the life of an orphan.
Never have I ever been more convinced that where we have chosen to invest our time and our money is right. I look at Elia's life and the return on our "investment" blows me away. I think about Aiden and all that God is burning in my heart about his little life, and I know that as we pour finances into seeing him rescued there is not a wiser investment for us to be making right now.
People have asked me whether I think there will be a decline in couples willing to adopt given our nation's economy. Sadly for some couples, I'm sure the economy will halt their plans. But what I'm praying is that the body of Christ will rise up and see that the reward of investing in orphans is a solid investment opportunity- one with an incredibly high return- immeasurable in fact.
Not only is the reward one I get to live out and experience daily, as I watch a life that was spared blossom before my very eyes, it is eternal. We are storing up treasure in heaven that cannot be destroyed by the winds and waves, and by the shifting sand of this life.
I pray that you would not be overcome with fear as you look at a failing economy, but that you would be provoked to give, even foolishly in the eyes of the world, and see the incredible hand of the Lord bless you in return.
Never have I ever been more convinced that where we have chosen to invest our time and our money is right. I look at Elia's life and the return on our "investment" blows me away. I think about Aiden and all that God is burning in my heart about his little life, and I know that as we pour finances into seeing him rescued there is not a wiser investment for us to be making right now.
People have asked me whether I think there will be a decline in couples willing to adopt given our nation's economy. Sadly for some couples, I'm sure the economy will halt their plans. But what I'm praying is that the body of Christ will rise up and see that the reward of investing in orphans is a solid investment opportunity- one with an incredibly high return- immeasurable in fact.
Not only is the reward one I get to live out and experience daily, as I watch a life that was spared blossom before my very eyes, it is eternal. We are storing up treasure in heaven that cannot be destroyed by the winds and waves, and by the shifting sand of this life.
I pray that you would not be overcome with fear as you look at a failing economy, but that you would be provoked to give, even foolishly in the eyes of the world, and see the incredible hand of the Lord bless you in return.
Mercy for Aiden
We were singing yesterday about the mercy of the Lord, and instantly I began to pray/sing the words over Aiden's life. I felt the incredible peace wash over me, as I realized that my human, maternal longings are nothing compared to the unsurpassing love and mercy that the Father has for Aiden.
This morning I look to the Word of God for strength to believe that the Father is watching over my son and will protect him and keep him safe.
Psalm 31:16 "Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save [Aiden] for thy mercies' sake."
Psalm 40: 11 "Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from [Aiden], O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve [him]."
Psalm 40:17 "But [Aiden] is poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon [him]: thou art [Aiden's] help and [his] deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalm 69:16,17 " Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto [Aiden] according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. And hide not thy face from [Aiden]; for [he is] in trouble: hear [him] speedily."
Would you join me in praying for the mercy of the Lord to overshadow our son today?
This morning I look to the Word of God for strength to believe that the Father is watching over my son and will protect him and keep him safe.
Psalm 31:16 "Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save [Aiden] for thy mercies' sake."
Psalm 40: 11 "Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from [Aiden], O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve [him]."
Psalm 40:17 "But [Aiden] is poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon [him]: thou art [Aiden's] help and [his] deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalm 69:16,17 " Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto [Aiden] according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. And hide not thy face from [Aiden]; for [he is] in trouble: hear [him] speedily."
Would you join me in praying for the mercy of the Lord to overshadow our son today?
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