As many of you have heard, Ethiopia passed a bold law this week stating they are ending international adoption for future children. This is shocking and heart-breaking news. BUT we have been told from our agency that because we have…

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As of this last week, we sent our entire collection of papers called the “dossier” off to the Assistant Stork in Washington DC. This was a project that took about 8 months to complete, that required things such as medical…

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We sent in our homestudy a little over a week ago! It’s a great step in the right direction. We are hoping to meet with our social worker this week, so that he is able to type up a formal…

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In May, we submitted the formal application to our agency and have almost completed the first set of adoption fees which is $3,500.  During the month of June, we will be tackling the homestudy paperwork and appointments required to complete…

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It’s a Beautiful Thing… This thing they call parenting. Well, maybe it didn’t start that way, exactly. Our reunion with the kids in August was bittersweet. We adored seeing their faces again and realizing how much they had grown in…

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Dim lighting, cool damp walls, thick musky aromas…a prison cell. Lonely, uncomfortable, overwhelming. Death hovering like a shadow. No promises of tomorrow. And yet Paul a soldier for Jesus sits in this cell thousands of years ago and writes in…

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