Here is the Info (For real this time)

Alright, lets see if I can stay on track this time! If you haven't picked up on it yet, Christina and I are adopting a child! We are working with Bethany Christian Services and are adopting an infant from somewhere in the USA. There you go. You now know just about as much as we do...

Okay, I guess I can't really just post that so I'll keep going for a while. This is not a new calling for us but we've finally wrestled up the courage and faith to take the first few steps. I always assumed that when we began adopting it would be internationally. I figured we would be planning to welcome a Ugandan child into our family (and into our Ugandan house), and I still believe we will someday, but it has been made pretty clear to us that, for now, this is what we are suppose to be doing and we are excited about it, really excited about it! Right now we are surrounded by people with adoption experience from a variety of different angles. We are surrounded by support and experience and that has been, and will be, such a blessing throughout this whole process.

So we just sent in the majority of our paperwork yesterday (sincere apologies to the South American rain forest that was sacrificed to make that happen) and are still waiting for our clearances to come back and say that we aren't serial killers or that we never voted with the Green Party or something. I'm not really sure what they are checking for but I am glad they check and don't just give babies to anyone. Once all our paperwork is in, we will have to meet with our case worker a couple times. She'll come to our house to make sure we don't live in a cardboard box (it isn't exactly a cardboard box, we should be okay) and we'll go see her at her office to make sure she isn't selling kids out of the back of a run down Laundromat. (I hate that I'm always so sarcastic. Note to self: work on that) After all that is done, we will finally be placed on the waiting list!! During that time, the first thing we have to do is make a "profile book" that Bethany will show to birth moms so they can get a feel for who we are and hopefully choose us. Also, there is this little detail about raising a bunch of money. We know there will be emotional ups and downs, truthfully there already have been. We can see these hills and valleys as we pray and hope and work for the money to make this happen without seeing any possibility of it coming through, as we see God work out His plan beyond anything we can ask or imagine, as we get calls telling us that a birth mom is looking at our profile and then that she didn't choose us, as we wait and wait and wait. We ask for your prayers and support during this time. We'll ask for more later but for now please just pray with us, pray for us, pray for the birth mother of our child, I don't know her story but this may very well be the hardest thing she will ever do, pray for the child that is directly in the eye of this whirlwind, and, above all else, pray that God would be glorified and His kingdom built a little bigger here, on earth, as it is in heaven (where everyone is an adopted child!).