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Update from 2/21/08
tfotorny | April 03, 2008 07:15
February 21, 2008
There's not much that has changed with the adoption process since our last email. We're still doing some paperwork -- it's more of a "gathering" of paperwork. We need to have physicals and it took me a month to get mine scheduled for the beginning of February but thanks to an ice storm that day, I had to be rescheduled and the next opening is tomorrow. Of course, the weather forecast is calling for a snow and ice storm again tomorrow! It's very frustrating for me because my schedule really limits what days I can schedule appointments on. So we'll see if I'm able to get out tomorrow for the appointment. I'm trying very hard to take it all in stride and to be patient. We're waiting on grant approval from the national adoption agency to find out how much they will pay towards our home study. We know we're approved, but we just don't know how much money they will contribute or when we'll find out. As soon as our local adoption agency gets the grant contract from the national agency, then our home study will be scheduled. The home study is when they come to our house and inspect it, and they'll also interview our family -- basically put us under the microscope.
We are connected with an adoption support network based in State College, PA. It's a group of families who are going through the adoption process now or who have already adopted. We have gotten some emails regarding the struggles some of the families are having with their adopted child. It could really scare us and discourage us into not adopting if we allowed it. But we strongly feel the Lord is calling us to adopt. This is something our family truly wants as well. The enemy wants nothing more than to discourage us through the "horror" stories of another family's struggles, or through delays in appointments and paperwork, etc. One family wrote how there's a spiritual battle waging against them because Satan doesn't want a child to be set free through adoption. There's a spiritual battle going on over our future daughter and our family as we carry out God's plan to bring a little girl into our family. Please pray for our family and for our future daughter.
Prayer Requests:
There's not much that has changed with the adoption process since our last email. We're still doing some paperwork -- it's more of a "gathering" of paperwork. We need to have physicals and it took me a month to get mine scheduled for the beginning of February but thanks to an ice storm that day, I had to be rescheduled and the next opening is tomorrow. Of course, the weather forecast is calling for a snow and ice storm again tomorrow! It's very frustrating for me because my schedule really limits what days I can schedule appointments on. So we'll see if I'm able to get out tomorrow for the appointment. I'm trying very hard to take it all in stride and to be patient. We're waiting on grant approval from the national adoption agency to find out how much they will pay towards our home study. We know we're approved, but we just don't know how much money they will contribute or when we'll find out. As soon as our local adoption agency gets the grant contract from the national agency, then our home study will be scheduled. The home study is when they come to our house and inspect it, and they'll also interview our family -- basically put us under the microscope.
We are connected with an adoption support network based in State College, PA. It's a group of families who are going through the adoption process now or who have already adopted. We have gotten some emails regarding the struggles some of the families are having with their adopted child. It could really scare us and discourage us into not adopting if we allowed it. But we strongly feel the Lord is calling us to adopt. This is something our family truly wants as well. The enemy wants nothing more than to discourage us through the "horror" stories of another family's struggles, or through delays in appointments and paperwork, etc. One family wrote how there's a spiritual battle waging against them because Satan doesn't want a child to be set free through adoption. There's a spiritual battle going on over our future daughter and our family as we carry out God's plan to bring a little girl into our family. Please pray for our family and for our future daughter.
Prayer Requests:
- For our family to stand strong in the spiritual battle, and that we won't get discouraged with delays, stories, etc.
- For God to clearly reveal to us who our daughter will be and where she is.
- That God will be working on her heart now, and ours, in order to prepare her and us to be a family.
- For paperwork and appointments to come together in God's timing.
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