More Progress...

Guest Post! OK, maybe not a guest post, but this is my first post on this blog. I thought I would take a little time this morning and give you an update on where we are at in the adoption process. As most of you know, last week we received our preliminary approval from China to adopt our newest daughter, and I can tell you that this week has been packed full of crazy thoughts and excitement.

A few things have happened this week are:

• We received our passports. The process that normally takes 4 to 6 weeks, took only a week and a half!
• We received both our criminal  checks back from the state and FBI.
• We have both completed our physicals and medical evaluations.
• We have completed over 24 hours of required training for home study.
• We have submitted all required paperwork for the home study. (Here is where I tell you that it is really Cindy who submitted all the paperwork; I just signed and initialed a lot.)
• Our house passed the state’s fire inspection. So things are moving.

This week we also had an opportunity to work with the media department at Miami Valley Christian Academy. They are working on a video project that will give a short story of our journey into adoption. We are very excited about this and can’t wait to see this project completed and share with all.

Throughout the next few weeks, I hope to be sharing the process that we are now journeying through. My prayer is that through this, there might be some who don’t see the process of adoption as an impossible task, but a God given opportunity to love the fatherless. Not everyone is called to adopt, but everyone is called to love the fatherless, the widows, the poor and the helpless.  

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