"We waited for you against all hope.
We came for you with the greatest of hopes."
(Nancy McGuire Roche/adoptive parent)
Time for an adoption update, friends. And .. 'thank you' to those who have journeyed with us in prayer.
We praise God-for the adoption grant recently received from Show Hope, in the amount of $7,000.00!
Valuable documents in my dossier are on their way to N.J. to be authenticated,
after which I must bring them to the Haitian Embassy to be stamped.
THEN, the dossier will be ready to send to Haiti, along with half of the adoption cost,
in order to be eventually matched with a child.
Adoption is always full of unpredictable variables and huge challenges!
We have met with some of them this week and I am asking for you to pray through these challenges with us, with great faith in the One who does the seemingly impossible!
Our adoption facilitator and her organization are now NOT on the list of those newly authorized to facilitate adoptions.
I need Wisdom and Guidance now to know where to send my dossier.
Lord, make a way!
We pray also for Show Hope to be gracious in relation to changes that need to be made to my situation.
Show Hope retains the grant funds until I have been matched with a child and am close to traveling to pick up that child.
Please pray for Show Hope to release the funds early, so I may use them to pay for the first half of the adoption.
Additionally, I'd like to invite you to join me in praying for two other dear families who are at the very end of their adoption process and are waiting, with great HOPE to hear that their children are ready
. . . to come home.
Pray for the Grams family, adopting Gustavo from Columbia.
Lord, bring him home to his forever family, soon!
Pray for the Timko family, adopting Jeno, from Haiti. (see picture below)
We also invite you to pray for the necessary funding for all of us, to complete our adoptions!
Thank you!
"Adoptive parents are special and there is a bond that binds us,
but has no name.
We understand without words the precious gifts that we have been entrusted with."
(Martha Osborne/adoptive parent)
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