Finally!!!! Now on to Phase 2( which really means " hand over more money")

Yes, the date came and the Home Study interviews finally happened.  A wonderful Social worker from Virginia came for the weekend of March 15-17 and interviewed all of us.  It wasn't near as painful as we'd heard and I'm happy to say that WE PASSED.  We still have 2 documents to get translated into English, but once that's done, we'll be ready to move on.

We're so thankful that this part of the process is finished.  As many of you know, we have been working on this for a long time.  We've had many changes from the country we were going to adopt from to the child we were thinking we would adopt.  Although I don't understand the reasons that certain things haven't worked out, I am still confident that God is in this, His timing is perfect and He will provide in the times when we don't know where the money will come from.

Which, btw, is right now! :)  Our next phase is for our agency to send in a formal request for us to adopt a special needs child in Burkina Faso.  Before they will do that, we have to pay them the agency fee(which happens to be the largest chunk that we will owe at one time).  Once that is done, we will be formally matched with a certain child and we'll be able to send out a picture of the little one that will become part of our family.

We're excited that this journey is progressing, but we need you!!  We need you to pray that God, in His perfect timing, would answer and work out all the details and provide what's needed.  Here's some specific ways to pray:
1.  That God would give us ideas of ways to fundraise for this next payment to the adoption agency.
2.  That we would apply to the right foundations that donate money to adoptive parents.
3.  That God would watch over a certain little guy in Burkina Faso and keep him healthy.
4.  That this part of the fundraising won't take long so that the needs of this child could be met as soon as possible.

Again, thank you for going with us on this journey.  We appreciate your encouragement and support as we try to follow God's leading in this part of our life.