Adoption Sunday and Dossier Update

It was so exciting and encouraging to have our first ever Adoption/Orphans Sunday at FBC Orange County! Matt did an excellent job preaching about our adoption as believers and then how adoption is a showcase for the gospel in several different ways. If you want to listen to the audio, click here. (It’s not up tonight, but will probably be up by tomorrow) We are blessed beyond belief to have Elders who are completely supportive of Orphan care and Adoption! We worked with another church (thanks Kosturas!) and put together some resources for Orphan Care, and some of our dear brothers and sisters are going to be looking into ways they can be involved in caring for Orphans. Two families who had been interested in adoption are escalating their start times. God is good…and He is moving in His people!

Our other BIG NEWS is that our Dossier (well, a copy of it!) has been shipped off! CWA now holds our dossier in it’s hands. We’re waiting to see if it’s error free, or if we need to make some changes before we send it off. WOO HOO! Next stop, California Authenticating! Shortly thereafter, Washington DC. Lord willing..Ethiopia is not too far away. Go Dossier, Go!

On a more personal note. In case no one else tells you, Adoptive mommies have “pregnancy” hormones too. I am surprised at how I can cry these days – it’s almost like a switch has been turned on. Or maybe a faucet, ha ha. The farther along the process we get, the more my heart is bonding with this child (I do think it will be just one, by the way). I remember this funny feeling with my pregnancies with the boys too – I think it’s when they start moving around, or maybe at that big ultrasound when you see their hands and feet so clearly. Whatever the case may be, my heart longs for Ethiopia and for the little one God is preparing for us. It hit us last week that he/she is probably born already. Then the flood of emotions hit harder. As you read/hear/watch statistics of hunger, disease, abuse…and then consider those things are what YOUR child is facing, the pain comes right home deep into your heart. God has been so faithful to remind me that He loves this child far more than I ever could – and that He will do what is best. I am thankful I can entrust myself, and my baby, to the hands of my loving Father.