Things are moving yet nothing concrete to share yet! Our children's orphanage is supposed to be accredited this week which will help everything to go more quickly. The ministry of health has agreed to do our case histories so the social worker should be going out to do them sometime soon. Once we have the case history all we need is the exit interview scheduled for the children's birth parents (shouldn't be hard to get) and then we make Steve's visa appt. to go and pick up the children, their visas, and head home. So we are so close!
We are still praying for our kids home by Christmas!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Dreamy Gelato
I have a friend at work whose wife's dad is from Gambia and she spent some time there. His wife started a new business this year and when she found out what we were doing she wanted to be a part of bringing our children home. Dreamy Gelato http://www.dreamygelato.com/ has been instrumental in bringing in almost $1000 towards our adoption. Some of it from sales and a lot of it from just putting a "change can" by the cash register and our picture. We didn't even know that she was going to do this and it was such a heart-warming surprise to have her hand us the funds from the sale she donated, BUT also to hand us even more money from the "change can." The people who come to her store have been so generous!
Please visit Dreamy Gelato in Cumming, GA to show your support for their business. Click for Directions
Please visit Dreamy Gelato in Cumming, GA to show your support for their business. Click for Directions
Garage Sale 9/19-9/20/08
God has blessed us with some amazing donations from many different families! One specific family - the Olsson's - have been responsible for about 75% of our donations. It's amazing to us how much money has been brought in by their donations. THANK YOU!!!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Update...
We were told today that our children's Case Histories are on the social worker from the ministry of health's "to do list"!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were told that they will be completed soon, but not exactly sure when. When they are started it will only take this group of case histories two days to complete. They were already started back in October of last year so they should be easy to complete! We are praying for a homecoming date in November or December!!!!
The children's passports are applied for so we should get those in the next two weeks. So pray for the passports to come and our case histories to be completed as well. We are getting close!
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The children's passports are applied for so we should get those in the next two weeks. So pray for the passports to come and our case histories to be completed as well. We are getting close!
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Please pray!
The MOH (ministry of health) is coming under significant pressure to move ahead with adoptions. He has been the main one holding things up for the past 8 months. He has to do the children's case histories which are necessary for the attaining the children's visas and passports. We are praying he will have a heart change and let the children go OR we are praying that God would send the "plagues"! :) We just want God to be glorified so we are praying that his will be done in this situation.
Our hope and prayer at this point is that we would have our babies by Christmas! With that in mind, I am busy busy busy preparing! I haven't done a lot of prep work for the kids up until this point because things have been so stalled. But with the latest promising news I feel the pressure to GET READY! It will be fun to think through all the little things the kids will need. I can't wait to go and buy stuff for the girls hair! I bought them some pajamas today at Kid to Kid, which is a consignment store for children's clothes. I bought them "footy" pajamas because I know the winters here will be tuff for them because they are used to the warm tropical weather in Liberia!
I also purchased their mattresses today and the guy gave us a great deal! I found their bedding a week or so ago and I'm eager to get it on their beds and see how it looks! I think they are going to have the sweetest girly room. I just can't wait to put them to bed in their own beds! It will be unreal. UNREAL. We've been dreaming about them for so long it will be so strange for those dreams to become reality, for these children who are just pictures in mind, into real flesh and blood children! I can't wait!
Our hope and prayer at this point is that we would have our babies by Christmas! With that in mind, I am busy busy busy preparing! I haven't done a lot of prep work for the kids up until this point because things have been so stalled. But with the latest promising news I feel the pressure to GET READY! It will be fun to think through all the little things the kids will need. I can't wait to go and buy stuff for the girls hair! I bought them some pajamas today at Kid to Kid, which is a consignment store for children's clothes. I bought them "footy" pajamas because I know the winters here will be tuff for them because they are used to the warm tropical weather in Liberia!
I also purchased their mattresses today and the guy gave us a great deal! I found their bedding a week or so ago and I'm eager to get it on their beds and see how it looks! I think they are going to have the sweetest girly room. I just can't wait to put them to bed in their own beds! It will be unreal. UNREAL. We've been dreaming about them for so long it will be so strange for those dreams to become reality, for these children who are just pictures in mind, into real flesh and blood children! I can't wait!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
New pictures!
Gideon, Serena, and Gidstina
Serena!
Gideon is in the front with a yellow shirt, Gidstina is near him in a pink dress
Gidstina is holding on the the pole in the pink dress and Serena is the only girl with the obvious spunk! She has on green sunglasses and has her hand posed on her hip!
Gidstina is praying/singing before her meal! What passion! :) Let's all take a lesson in worship from her!Thursday, August 14, 2008
Update...
Well.... more waiting.... waiting.... waiting.... waiting.... I think that is the story of this adoption! -WAIT!- And that is okay because,
"He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil." Psalm 37: 6-8
"I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God." Psalm 38:15
"I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry." Psalm 40:1
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope." Psalm 130:5
And Proverbs 21:30 & 31 says: "There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD. The horse is made ready for the day of battle but victory rests with the Lord."
Isaiah 26:3 says, "You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you."
I can gladly say that my heart is at rest! I cry out to God for these children but behind that cry I KNOW that God loves them far more than I do and he will act in their best interest and the timing of their coming home will be PERFECT. I know that because all my God's ways are perfect and in him is NO error.
So all that to say, we are still waiting! The new adoption laws are to be in place by the end of August. If the Liberian government officials begin to then work within the bounds of the law we will be glad! If they do not then we may begin making various phone calls to ask them why they aren't!
We will be doing our home study over again since it has been a year this October since our first one was approved! I never dreamed it would take this long! It feels like we are starting all over again!
When will these children get out of my dreams and into my home?? :) :)
"He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil." Psalm 37: 6-8
"I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God." Psalm 38:15
"I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry." Psalm 40:1
I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope." Psalm 130:5
And Proverbs 21:30 & 31 says: "There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD. The horse is made ready for the day of battle but victory rests with the Lord."
Isaiah 26:3 says, "You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you."
I can gladly say that my heart is at rest! I cry out to God for these children but behind that cry I KNOW that God loves them far more than I do and he will act in their best interest and the timing of their coming home will be PERFECT. I know that because all my God's ways are perfect and in him is NO error.
So all that to say, we are still waiting! The new adoption laws are to be in place by the end of August. If the Liberian government officials begin to then work within the bounds of the law we will be glad! If they do not then we may begin making various phone calls to ask them why they aren't!
We will be doing our home study over again since it has been a year this October since our first one was approved! I never dreamed it would take this long! It feels like we are starting all over again!
When will these children get out of my dreams and into my home?? :) :)
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