Adoption Update

Yesterday a friend emailed me...

"So what's the scoop with the adoption?  I heard it didn't work out?"

I replied, "You've gotta love gossip, don't you?  It never comes out just right."

So here's the scoop.

A couple of weeks ago our adoption agency's admin. assistant called and told me something had come up with our children.  She said there was another family interested in the brother and sister we had been expecting to be ours.  Apparently they had filled out their application and turned in their contract, but for whatever reason, hadn't had a lot of contact with the agency leading them to believe the family was not interested in K and M. 

Our contract was in the mail to us.  So we hadn't even had a chance to get that in.  And until the contract is turned in, they can't officially give you a referral for the children. 

When she first started telling  me, my heart sank.  But then I remembered that we wanted no part of controlling this adoption process and if God was closing this door, He had good reason for it.  And so I was at perfect peace about it.  And since this adoption isn't about us getting children, it's about children getting a home, we pray K & M are going to be loved and taught about Jesus in their new home wherever that is.  And we'll wait patiently for the children God has for us to love and teach about Him.

Since then, we have received our 26-page contract and are in the process of reading it.  It will need to be signed and returned with the agency fee.  Then when we receive the homestudy summary back, we can work on our dossier (set of documents all about us to be presented to Ethiopia) and wait for a referral for the children God wants to be a part of our family. 

Then there will be a court date in Ethiopia which Roddy will fly over for and if we pass, about six weeks later, we both fly to pick them up!