Hey everyone!
It feels like forever since I've given an adoption update....
Since the last time I blogged, we have transferred to a different agency, switched from the Ethiopian program to the Ugandan program, & have received a refund check for some of our $ we sent to our old agency.....
Why all the changes you ask??? Let me tell you :-)
We've been stuck in the same phase of the adoption for quite some time now. We needed about $12-13,000 just to continue on to the next phase with our old agency. We've been praying hard for God to reveal to us what to do next. We knew in our hearts He still wanted us to pursue the adoption we just weren't quite sure what steps He wanted us to take next. Someone asked Josh if we had ever thought about the Ugandan program. They talked a little about this, & when Josh got home spoke to me about it as well right away. We decided it was something we could pray about. The only hard part in switching programs was that our old agency didn't have a Ugandan program so we knew we would have to transfer to another agency. Knowing we could lose quite a bit of $ since we've been sending the old agency $ for about a year now, we needed to know this was really what God wanted us to do. We asked a godly couple from church to walk beside us in prayer for a week about this decision. After much prayer & asking others what they thought about it, we all came to a conclusion that there was no reason at all why we shouldn't transfer. Doors have been opening up wide for us & we have no doubt that we have made the right decision. Now looking back on things, God has been preparing the way for this for a while now. I was a little disappointed that we hadn't been excepted for any of the grants we had applied for, but had we been given that grant $ we probably wouldn't have gotten that back. Little things we look back on now that God had closed the doors on, now make sense to us on why He was doing it. Weeks before Josh talked about changing to Uganda, I had been looking at other agency's websites & programs, not b/c we were having problems with ours, but just because, or what I thought was just because was actually God nudging me into looking for other options for us ;-) There are no coincidences!! Only God-incidences!!!! We absolutely LOVE our new agency! We have a conference call with our new case worker on Thur. & look forward to working with her. We did lose a little $ from our old agency as they refused to refund some of it, but we now only need about $6-7,000 to COMPLETE our adoption with our new agency as opposed to $12-13,000 just to get to the next phase with the old agency.
We are very excited to see what God has planned next for us & God willing we will be heading to Uganda to pick up our 2 little ones as soon as God prepares the way!!!!!
