Today we got some very exciting news. For the past 10 months we have been doing paperwork like crazy and trying to raise funds to send in with that paperwork. Well today we got an email from Gladney that we have been formally approved for Ethiopia adoption! If you haven't been through the adoption process you might not know what this means. When you first start out on this journey just making the decision to adopt is the first step..and probably the easiest part of it all. Then the real work begins. Before you can even begin you have to be approved to apply and then after months of filling out forms, having physicals, being fingerprinted repeatedly, having a home study done,and sending in thousands of dollars...then if everything isn't "formally" approved...all of that is lost! So you can imagine that this wonderful news gives us a huge sense of relief! I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! Now...dossier can be completed to send to Ethiopia and that will be reviewed and we go on a waiting list for our child.
Please pray that God will continue to guide us through this and give us the courage and patience to make it to our child! We still have a lot of money to raise so also pray that He will provide those funds we need!
God is so good!
