It's official! (finally)  We have been accepted into America World Adoption Agency (AWAA).  We have committed a significant amount financially and are excited than we have actually officially started. Our next step is to apply to St. Elizabeth/Coleman for our home study. Our plan is to have our home study completed, along with our dossier and necessary paperwork by the end of summer. We need about $10,000 to complete those steps.  Once the home study is complete, we will submit all the paperwork and hopefully be approved!  After approval we will be put on the waiting list. The wait time from there can be anywhere from 12-24 months for a child referral.

         We are so excited to share this experience with you, our friends and family, in hopes of your prayers.  We, first, are praying for our child, who may or may not be born yet, but is living in a country where war is constant and will be living in an orphanage. We know that God wants this for our family and we are stepping out in faith to meet God where He wants us.  Please pray for our child, for health and for safety, but above all that our child will get to come home to us as soon as we can.

         Please pray that God would provide the finances for this adoption. We are both looking to find some extra part time and we are hoping to get some fundraisers started soon. There are various grants and loans available, however we must have our home study complete to qualify for most of them.
     
        Thank you for your prayers and support. We are excited to see how God will work!