A lot has happened since our last post! We are excited to say that our dossier has been sent in and God was so faithful to provide the money that we needed for our payment!!
(which, for those who are wondering, the dossier is pretty much everything that we have done up to this point, that is put together in one large document... it's pretty much everything you would want to know about our family and probably more. :-) When sent, the dossier makes 6 trips in the mail, until it finally reaches Ethiopia and is fully processed, at which point we will officially be on the waiting list. We have been told this takes about 1 month)
We can't believe that we are already to this point in the adoption process! We praise God that things have gone so smoothly and that God has been providing! Adam and I were just talking the other day about how amazing it has been to see, that once we started the adoption process and made the initial payment, we have had the money that we needed for each step of the process! It's amazing that we haven't been held up at all due to finances! Praise God! It's been such an encouragement to witness our God providing so clearly for us!
And we continue to praise Him, because just this last week, after we had already sent the dossier and made that payment, we see God providing for us in preparing for the next payment. The next payment that we are looking toward is the referral payment, which costs about $9200. We pay this amount when we receive information about the child God has for us, and decide to accept the referral. And then we wait for a court date from Ethiopia to go and meet our child for the first time. We are amazed that God has used the tremendous generosity of others, just in the last week, to provide for $6,505 of our referral amount!! Praise our God who is good to provide for His children!
Deuteronomy 8:18
And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day
1 Chronicles 29:12
Both riches and honor come from You, And You reign over all. In Your hand is power and might; In your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all
Prayer Requests:
1. Please pray that, as we're about to be put on the list to wait for our child, that God would give us wisdom and peace in thinking through the special needs that we will be open to
2. Please pray that the dossier will be processed smoothly
3. Please pray that we would receive a matching grant! We have applied for a number of matching grants, and are hoping to get one, because, if we did, our amount of $6505 could be about doubled!!
4. Continue to pray that God would be preparing our family to receive this child
