The phone rang.....again

Everytime my phone rings I look to see if it's our agency---well, it rang this morning and guess what it was our agency!!! It was Laurel calling only to tell us that the lady that signs for our travel date to Ukraine was out of the office until Monday. Ugh! Laurel just wanted to let me know that bit of info so I could rest a little better because she really thought today would be the day to get our travel day. You see, Laurel has adopted from Ukraine also so she knows about waiting and expecting that phone call.
This today has really made me think, do we wait so anxiously to hear from God? Do I hold on to every moment that I spend with Him so dearly? Do I? Do we? My desire is that I do but I know there are times that I allow things to cloud my vision of Him. Oh, Lord forgive me! I have to say Lord Thank You for loving me no matter what.

During this whole process of adoption has taught our family a lot about Faith and giving our all to our Lord and learning what wit means and knowing when to listen to Him.

Until that call comes.....stay in tuned to God!

Excitied and Waiting!

Just received a call from our agency. You better believe that my heart leaped when I saw her name on my caller id!!!! I almost couldn't answer the phone---but I did. She just wanted to up date us on our travel date status. We don't have a date yet but our Power of Attorney feels that it could come this week. How Wonderful that call will be! Continue to pray for our family, the orphanage director that we adopt our child from, our POA, and the child God has for us. I will keep you all posted if anything changes.

As I have said before, our church family is AWESOME! God keeps placing people in our path to help fund this adoption--It's Wonderful! Today we received a donation in the mail from someone in our church family which allowed us to reach our $20,000 goal. Praise God! To think, we were concerned how in the world we would raise this much money; well we didn't God did!!! Everything over this goal will still go to help toward any unknown expenses.

Still waiting for our travel date!

God Is Good!

As you can see I finally was able to post our new thermometer! Not far from our $20,000.00 goal. Anything extra will help just incase we run into more expenses that we are not aware of. Thank You to everyone that has and is still a part of this amazing journey! We are still waiting for our date to travel.

Submission Date!!!

We thought this day would never get here and here it is!!!! We received word today that our dossier was submitted successfully---Praise God! Now we wait for our travel date. Six months ago it seemed like this day would never arrive-we can't believe that it finally did. God is good and we know that He has had His hand in all this journey and continues to do so. To talk about Faith is one thing but to live Faith is another. We must be faithful to what God has prepared for our lives and be obedient to follow Him!

WATCH!

I have put a new thermometer on our blog and very soon you will be able to see our new totals. For those of you that have been watching the thermometer it looks as if we have no money but I just want to surprise you all on the new updates and what God has been doing. So stay tuned to find out the new amounts......to be continued.......

In the Hands!

You might be asking in whose hands? What is in their hands? Tell me! Tell Me! Well, yesterday we received word that our Power of Attorney has all of our paperwork in her hands. I am so glad to hear that everything arrived to her on Thursday. No more sweating if everything would be there on time. This just reminds me that God has had His hands on the journey all the way. When our Faith was slipping God always was there to show us that He has everything under control and that He holds our tomorrow, today and the future.
We ask that you all continue to pray for our submission date on October 14th. Pray that our paperwork is accepted and that we hear about our date to travel. After the 14th, we have about 20 days to know when we will travel to Ukraine. Normally, you travel about 2 weeks after that. So, please keep our family in your prayers. Pray for Morgan and Mitchell as time grows closer for us to leave. Pray for our new addition that he will just be protected and know that someone in this world loves him and can't wait to meet him.
Stay tuned to our blog for further updates!!!

Updates!

Here is just a little update on a previous post: please pray as our remaining paperwork has headed to Kyiv. We received a call this morning that our power of attorney was going to be out of town the date that our paperwork should arrive to him so in the middle of fed-exing we had to change the delivery address. So, needless to say, I have been on the phone a lot today trying to redirect the papers to a different address. The papers are now headed to our other power of attorney ILona. Just pray that they arrive to her and she is there to sign for them. I know God has already worked out all of the revamping of our paperwork.

Remaining documents on the way!!!!

In a later post I explained that we had 3 documents that we had to redo for our dossier. Those last 3 documents headed to Kyiv Ukraine to our Power of Attorney on saturday. They should arrive to Igor on Wednesday 6th or Thursday 7th. Please join us in praying that these documents are correct. Our dossier will be submitted on the 14th and then we will pray and wait for our date to travel to Ukraine. We are so excited and can't wait for this date.
It is just AWESOME on how many people in our community and our church family has been a part of changing a child's life.