Dossier in Haiti

Yes, that’s right, as of Monday, September 26th, 2011, our completed dossier (along with 4 complete copies of the original) is in Haiti! A great big THANK YOU goes out to our wonderful friends who delivered it to GLA while leading a group from their church on a mission trip there - you know who you are. ;)

We’re praying over our dossier, for God’s will to reign over the process of matching us to our child(ren).

Yes, I did type child(ren). On our initial application, we specified in our preferences that we wanted to adopt only one child. We talked over this and prayed over this, and felt that we would be better equipped to adopt one child instead of two like last time.

Well... Then things changed in the process. We had to fill out more paperwork and work with an agency. The paperwork wording changed slightly, from “preference” to “acceptance”. This got us to thinking and discussing and praying some more.

We came to the conclusion that if God wants us to adopt two children instead of one, who are we to turn Him down. So, we answered yes to the question of would we accept a sibling group. We answered 2 to the question of how many in the sibling group.

So now we wait and pray over the referral process. We ask that you join us in praying over the referral process.

Our agency has told us that it could take 2-5 months, depending on how the children available for adoption at GLA match up with our dossier. In my hopeful mind, I don’t believe it will be that long, as I know that GLA has been praying for families to answer God’s call to adopt the children in their care.

Please also join us in praying for us as we wait. We know all too well how long the adoption process can take. We are trying to be patient with it this time, knowing that timelines can fluctuate, processes can change, etc. However, we are also praying that the faster timelines we’ve been hearing from other families ahead of us remain, and we can get our child(ren) home much more quickly than it took to get Elijah & Josephine home.