Court Date – Again!

Tuesday is our third attempt at adoption court in Ethiopia.  Actually. with the eight hour time difference, our hearing will probably take place sometime while we sleep tomorrow night.
Our adoption process has had it’s ups and downs.  During the home study and paperwork phase everything went smoothly until it came to getting a background check [...]

Gifts worth waiting for

I remember the excitement of finding out my wife was pregnant with each of our first four babies.  Each time there was excitement with an undercurrent of fear – “are we ready for this?” God was always good to quickly answer – “yes, or I would not have blessed you with this new child.”
As the [...]

The Theology of Adoption

My wife and I attended the Christian Alliance for Orphans conference held in Dallas this April.  On the way to the conference my wife was excited about the conference and about getting involved in this ministry.  I was looking forward to the conference but I had other issues that God had been working out in [...]

Help! I’m an Orphan

My son has a couple of private blogs.  One of them is about waiting for his new little brother from Ethiopia.  He recently posted a great article on orphans so I got permission to re-post it here for everyone else.
(by Tate) I was watching someone on the TV the other day with my mom and [...]

Finding Joy

(by Mandy) Yesterday, I was reading about how the Israelites were complaining (again) and how God got mad at them for asking for selfish reasons. As I read that, I stopped and prayed God would forgive me for complaining about this delay and asking for this to happen faster for selfish reasons. Yes, I [...]

Please take a number

We heard from All God’s Children today.  They’ve reviewed our dossier and all of our paperwork is in order.  Amazing!  Well, actually I’m not all that surprised.  My wife has been spearheading the documentation phase of our adoption process and she is amazing.
When you look at the requirements list for an adoption dossier it is [...]

Homestudy complete?

(by Mandy)
I haven’t posted an update on the adoption in a while because it has been at a standstill while we waited for our letter from Panama.
We waited one month!
The letter finally came in and our social worker said she has everything ready.  Now we wait to see if our agency is happy with it.  [...]

Waiting for a message

Our family has been in the adoption process since about October.  We already have four beautiful biological children but we wanted to share our family and our love with a child that otherwise would be without a family.
We’ve been through the process of deciding domestic or international, country of origin, and agency.  We’ve completed an [...]

Open Mouth, Insert Foot

(by Mandy)
It’s official!
We had our first “Brad and Angelina” comment this past weekend.
I did not get offended or give a sarcastic response. I was really pretty shocked that someone would even think of that. It’s just funny that anyone would look at a family that is adopting from Africa and think of it as following [...]

What made you choose Ethiopia?

This is a common question my wife and I are asked when we share with people that we are in the process of adopting.  I wonder sometimes if there is a question behind the question.  However, I’m sure in most cases it is really an inquisitive question.  Why choose an international adoption over domestic?  Why [...]

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