8 More Months!

In order to complete the adoption in 2010 we knew we needed a filing date no later than October. We have been praying for an Ocotber filing date, and God has answered. Thank you all, for praying with us.

This morning we got an email from Maria and our filing date is October 28, 2010!!!!

We couldn't be more excited! On Thursday, the 28th our dossier will be filed with the Ukrainian government for approval. Once it is approved, we will receive an invitation to travel to Ukraine to as bad as it sounds, "pick out our child" and adopt him!

Maria expects with our filing date being at the end of October that we will be invited to travel early to mid December. If we are not invited to travel then, we will be travelling in February of 2011.

So we are praying that its only 8 more months until we meet our son and bring him home!


So here's what will be happening now:
1. We will finish up our homestudy in the next week!

2. We will begin the papework to file with U.S. Immigration, to get approval to bring our adopted child into the U.S.

3. We will begin filling out grant applications and fundraising.

4. We will eventually begin working on our paperwork for our dossier. Because everything has to be freshly dated, it will probably be late summer or early fall before we begin.


Prayer Requests:
-It is still our hearts greatest desire to have our child home with us for Christmas. This will be a tight sqeeze with our timeline, but we will continue to ask God to move and make this possible. Please join us in praying for our child, and that his first Christmas celebrated with a family will be this year!

-Please continue to pray for Matt and I, specifically for discernment as we begin dealing with the financial aspects of the adoption with grant applications and fundraising.
For us, there really was never any question about adoption, we always knew we would adopt. It was a decision I made the summer after my 8th grade year of school, and something we decided again together while dating 8 years ago. What has held us back until now was the amount of money required to adopt. We are definitely taking a huge step of faith, trusting and believing that God will provide all that we need and more.
We cannot wait to see how God continues to work and provide for our adoption.