Prayer Requests

As we plug along in this stage of the adoption process we have a few specific things we would love prayer for!

1. For the remaining paperwork. That we would be able to gather everything smoothly, without any delays. That we would be able to find focus and time for these tasks during this extremely busy season in our families' life.

2. For our final home study visit and all that we must accomplish before that meeting. We are meeting on July 3rd at 10:30 am with our social worker for this visit. Between now and then we must gather the remaining paperwork, we must complete our education requirements, and come up with the remaining funds for the home study.

3. We are seeking the Lord concerning the specific things we are looking for or open to in the child our agency will refer to us. In adoption you must fill out paper work to list what you are looking for in a child. (ie. age, gender, and medical conditions) Our agency has a birth order policy that says our newly adopted child must come into our family as the youngest child in the family by 9 months. That would mean the next youngest child must be 9 months younger than Levi. Since our current children are so young this narrows the age window for us. We are trying to be as open as possible within that window. We are having to consider all kinds of medical conditions and spell out to our agency what we are open to and what we are not. We have said from the beginning we would be open to either gender. (though Sophie desperately wants a sister!) We know that we are open to any age from 0-3 (or whatever 9 months younger than Levi is at that time) We also said from the beginning that we are open to siblings. We have recently been feeling led to consider bringing home two children. So our specifications would say "siblings or 2 unrelated" children. Would you pray for us in this? We are seeking God specifically concerning "how many" and concerning the medical/emotional conditions and family history. We must know these things by our final home study visit, which is July 3rd.

4. For all things financial in this process. Adoption is expensive. We are continually working to cut expenses in our life, sell things, or take on extra jobs. We will do a few fundraisers as soon as our home study is over. (I am working on a great one where we will sell handmade bracelets from women in Haiti!) And most importantly we are trusting in our God to provide. We believe he has led us to this and that he will lead us through it. We knew from beginning this whole process would be one of faith and trust and funding it is one of the more obvious areas we must do that. We believe that God is faithful to all he has promised. We have already seen his miraculous hand at work since we stepped forward in faith and we honestly anticipate seeing him provide all of the way through. We believe adoption and orphan care is for the whole church and that God desires for his body to work together with their different gifts and calling to reach out and care for the fatherless. So we pray that God would send some and use others to help send. Would you join us is praying? Pray that God would increase our faith and trust in him and his promises. Pray that God would continue to reveal more of himself as he provides every step of the way.