After Pastor Dan announced that Kim and I are in the adoption process, lots of people have been asking how things are going. We’re adopting through the America World Adoption Agency, and our country of choice is China. Our paperwork has been complete since June of 2006, and we are waiting in a virtual line, waiting for China to process our paperwork and match us with a baby girl. We’ve been praying and thinking of Annabelle for more than 2 years. If things progress as they have been, we won’t travel to China until sometime in late 2009. I’ll be honest, the waiting is difficult.
Kim and I are praying about other avenues, but we’re not ready to give up on Annabelle. I believe that God has put her in my heart, and I can’t imagine that our family will be complete until I tuck her into bed on that first night she’s at home with us.
Kim has always believed that God put it in her heart to adopt. As a little girl, she was always bringing home stray animals. She says she has the Spirit of Adoption. AWAA has a great article on that very topic. You can read it here.
If you think about it, please pray for us as we wait and try to make sense of this whole thing. But more importantly, pray for the babies who are waiting all over the world. The Bible couldn’t be more clear–God’s heart is drawn to the orphan, and the people of God are called to protect and provide for the orphan.
Did you know:
5.5 million orphans in Africa, 3.5 million orphans in Asia, 1.5 million orphans in Eastern Europe, Nearly 400,000 orphans in Latin America, 135,000 children in the U.S. foster care system.
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