We took a month off!

Bryan has been to South Africa since our last post and because of his work schedule, the planning of the trip, trying to raise more money and then my holding down the fort here we decided to take a month off from the adoption process.

Check out the links about his trip -

http://www.lifeschoolinternational.org/Media/Videos/SouthAfrica2008.wmv
http://www.lifeschoolinternational.org/Media/Trips/SouthAfricaReport08.htm


So the next phase of paperwork has begun! We're applying to 5 different agencies in 4 states - Iowa, Virginia, Utah and Kansas. The second phase seems just as busy as the first. If all goes as planned we should have our applications in the mail at the end of the week. Once the applications are in the hands of the agencies at any time we could potentially get information on birthmoms. We hope our waiting game won't be too long!

Prayer Request

If you are interested in praying for our adoption process, here is a list of things to pray for us -

• We'll have God's perfect match as far as the baby and birth family are concerned.
• We'll have His perfect timing in when we get our baby.
• We won't have any mismatches where we almost get a baby and the birthmom backs out at the last minute.
• For the perfect location in where we go to get the baby. We'll definitely go out of state since our state's laws are more favorable to birthmoms than the adoptive parents (i.e. - birthmoms have more time to take their babies back.) Most likely we'll be away for a week to ten days for the legal paperwork to process in which ever state we're adopting from.

On another note - next week we have our final meeting with our social worker and will begin to connect with agencies! Yeah! It's another milestone!