We're back to 'square 1' you might say. We received an e-mail yesterday from the lady that was helping orchestrate the adoption between us & the birth mother letting us know that, at this time, there is no baby for us to adopt. Where do we go from here? I'd like to avoid an adoption agency if possible to keep down a good portion of the cost of an adoption. The friend that I've been sharing with got both of her boys thru private, open adoptions, meaning they were picked by & communicated directly with the birth mother rather than thru an adoption agency. Just to set up an account with an agency is appx $5,000, & that doesn't include the actual costs of the adoption! I have great hope than another opportunity will come our way. In the meantime, we'll continue plodding along with the process so that when the opportunity comes, we'll be ready.
We believe that God will be the One that brings the birth mother/family & our family together to make this adoption miracle happen, but we also know that God uses people like you & me to do His will. So if you, or somebody you know, knows of a situation in which a girl/family is looking for a loving, small-town, Christian, family to adopt their unborn child, please, please, please pass our info along to them. I am in the finishing stages of our 'Get to Know Our Family' book, the letter from us to the birth mother/family, & the letter from our family to our future child. I'd be happy to send copies of all 3 of these documents to you if you have somebody that would like to consider us to be their adoptive family.
I can feel it. God's already got amazing things in the works for us! Lord, just help us (...mainly me) to be patient as we wait for all the pieces to come together.
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