Paperwork, Paperwork, and a whole lot of Faith

Well, Jennifer and I met with our Homestudy Agency for the last time this past Monday. We are where we need to be and are finishing our paperwork. Our I-600A will be mailed this week to immigration office in Milwaukee. More paperwork will be completed and will be notarized next Sunday and then we can mail it out. Everything is going great. We have planned a church rummage sale for the first weekend in June. It will be held Friday and Saturday. We have asked for donations to sell at the rummage and proceeds will go towards the expenses. I have a hope that this can be done every year with the proceeds going towards an adoption fund the church has set up. From there we as a church may be able to help other Christian couples with some of the expense. Will have to wait and see how it goes this year. After the homestudy has been completed we will be able to apply for different grants to help with the expenses. That we will be doing by the beginning of June. We have 4 or 5 different places to apply. Will have to wait and see what comes from those. Once we have mailed our paperwork to the CCAI they will start working putting it together and that is our dossier. That is then mailed off and from that point it will be a 10-14 month wait for our match. A day I know we can't wait for but also we know so many of our friends and family are excited for that day also. I can truely say that God is teaching us a lot of patience through this process. We have little if any concerns or worries. Our homestudy agency has been great and she has given us some valuable advice that we are going to follow. A lot of it will apply once we have brought our little one home. Our lives are going to change in such a different way. There will be a new appreciation for life. We are putting all of our trust into God on this. We have to fully rely on Him to see us through this. It will be a new witness for us that we hope to share with people as we complete this adoption. God is good, that is all I know right now. Today, we were at some friends house for dinner and they have a newborn. I was able to look at him with a whole new and different perspective. Just to think that we will have an infant is an amazing gift from God, especially they way we are going about it. I think I have heard from a few different ladies that they would rather go through a pregnancy than to go through this process. It will definately be a test of our faith. But, we all know that Jennifer and I are on a firm rock. We thank everybody for everything that they have done and all that they are going to do. Praise God for all that is happening.