Friday Aaron and I traveled to Phoenix for our first meeting with Sharon, our adoption worker at CFC. What a huge blessing. Sharon is a wonderful woman who loves the Lord and is passionate about finding loving, Christian families for children and for caring for birth parents. We were blown away by the agency. We knew they were a Christian agency and that the adoption workers would be Christians but we did not expect such a focus on how God is working in our lives etc. Most of our time was spent answering questions about our spiritual lives and the journey the Lord has brought us on since childhood. Sharon specifically asked how we teach God's word to our children which sent Aaron and I babbling on for quite some time. We just got more and more excited sharing with her what an impact the Lord has made in our home and how we try and take the most ordinary, everyday events and use them to teach our children about who God is, what He is doing or has done, our need for Him and taking opportunities to share Him with others. The more we talked the more excited we got about welcoming another child into our family and home. Before we left the office Sharon prayed with us and told us the agency prays for us everyday. Of course I got teary eyed (it doesn't take much but pray for me and I am a goner).
Our meeting lasted almost 2 hours and then we had another blessing! Aaron's grandparents were on their way home from working at Answers in Genesis in Kentucky for the last several years. We met them on their way through Phoenix for lunch at Cracker Barrel and got to visit and share what the Lord has been doing in this process. So much fun and such a blessing. They had just come from a family conference with Pastor Voddie Baucham and were excited to share what they had learned with us. (If you have not heard of Voddie baucham check out his book
Family Driven Faith).
We are now working on completing our paperwork, physicals, finger printing etc. for our Home study. We are almost done with our paperwork and have our physicals and finger printing in the next week. When those are all completed and we have our home study fee we will mail it all to the agency and begin our home study visitations. We are very excited! We are getting closer!
The girls are working jar mixes for a bake sale and I am sewing for the Etsy shop. We will be having a garage sale in the coming weeks as well. Please continue to pray for us as we complete each step. Please also be praying for the birth parents and baby-for wisdom as they make some difficult decisions and for health for both mommy and baby.
Thank you so much for your support.
Here are our first few financial hurdles:
Description Goal Date Status
1.
$50 Application Fee & App Mailed July 16, 2010 Completed!!!
2. $300 Adoption Class Fee Sept. 15, 2010 $102.00 left
3. $1200 Home Study Fee Oct. 5, 2010
4. $1000 Matchbook Fee Nov. 1 2010
(This is where we write a letter/family profile or scrapbook that will then be shown to birth moms)
