Our Journey Starts New

November 2011

For about a year and a half we have been praying that God would bless us with a child. We never imagined having any trouble pursuing this dream, but after a year of seemingly getting no where, we decided to start pursuing infertility treatment. Though we have not been told we cannot have children, the odds are not in our favor. This has been a very difficult journey, which has led us to start the adoption process. Adoption is something we had talked about even before we were married. Our desire is to be parents and raise children to teach them about our Savior, Jesus Christ. At times we wonder if it would have been easier to be told we are unable to have kids so that we could have started the adoption process sooner, but we know God’s timing is perfect, as is His plan for us. We are in the beginning stages of the adoption, we have finished reading the manual, and have started the Adoptive Planning Questionnaire. Once the APQ is finished we will apply for our Home Study. From there we will start working on our profile to be shown to potential birth mothers. We are very excited to have the opportunity to be blessed with a child, and know as hard or as scary and tough the process might be in the end God's will, will be done and we hope we are able to glorify him in every way.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Next Steps

We have finished filling out the Adoption Planning Questionnaire and will be speaking with an Adoption Specialist on the 20th. During our call we will talk about all of our answers, and responses, to see how they will effect our exposure to potential birth parents. We have also sent in our application for the home study. They say this is the process that can take the longest, anywhere from 1-2 months. We have also started working on our online profile, this is a lot of information to compile, and we are slowly working to chip away at. Again we are very excited to continue moving forward, but with each area there are unknowns, please continue to pray that God would give us the words to say, and that He continues to guide us along through it all.
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