Preparation...
When we decided to be obedient and adopt we were so excited, then the excitement turned into an overwhelming feeling. Just try and do a google search on adoption and you will see what I mean We joined an adoption support group through church and had awesome support from a couple from church who had adopted several years ago from China. They gave us some priceless advice. We got a book on adoption.We learned from the book that the first thing you need to do is pick a country so you can chose an agency that works with that country.We began to look at the different countries and each countries requirements and that started to narrow the list down fast. After prayer and research we felt God was calling us to adopt from China.
Choosing an agency...
The next thing we did was choose an agency. Some people take a long time and agonize over this decision, but after looking at several and calling several we just had a gut feeling that Holt International was the one for us. It looked like they had a great standing with China and had been working with them for many years. Also they were always really nice and easy to talk to.
Starting the process...
In May we mailed off our application to Holt and we were accepted! Since then we have completed our home study and are just waiting for approval from Holt.We are currently working on our Dossier which is a lot of paperwork that you have to do and send to China. We can't actually send our Dossier to China until I turn 30 which is in November. That is actually a good thing because we are swimming in paperwork! Please pray for us that we would get it all done by then =)
Where we are headed....
Once our paperwork is sent to China we wait for them to give us a match which is where they will send us a picture of our daughter!!!! Can't wait for that part! The Dossier has to be in China for 6 months before we can travel to pick her up. We could travel as early as next summer. That was the really short version of things, but I hope to keep up with this blog weekly and keep you all updated on where we are in the process and whats going on. We hope that you will follow us along on our journey to our daughter and also to see how God works in our lives along the way. Please keep us in your prayers including the little person who will become part of our forever family.
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