Going to Meet our Son!

We are so excited and blessed to have crossed the first major hurdle in the Haitian adoption process. We have been waiting 8 months to move to this particular stage. While we have many more stages to go before we can bring our son home, we do get to go meet him soon!

The next step of our process is to fly to Haiti and go to the US Embassy as well as Haitian court. At the embassy, we will file to "classify an orphan as an immediate relative." In Haitian court, we will sign some documents and make necessary filings.

Please pray for Don and me as we travel to Haiti. Pray for our son...that his little heart would be open to receiving us, to loving us, to wanting to be with us. This will be a HUGE step for all of us. We don't know what to expect. Everyone has a different experience. We know that God will provide for us.

While we cannot wait to meet Jordan, we also are aware that we will have to tell him goodbye. He will not be able to come home with us. There is no way around this. It's part of the process. Please pray that Jordan will not suffer abandonment, that his heart will be protected and that God will provide him with a sense of knowing that we are coming back to get him. At age 3, this will be hard for him to understand...actually, at any age, it's hard to understand being left.

We as adults hardly understand why the process has to take so long. Children, however...cannot possibly understand government red tape, process, delays, etc. Please pray for a sense of peace through the waiting and the unknown.

We WILL bring Jordan home one day. There is no doubt. We don't know how much longer we have to wait. We don't know the day he will come home. There is nothing predictable about the process except that the process is unpredictable and no one's timeline is the same.

However, we DO KNOW that God is in control, and that He will bring be with us every step of the way. He has begun this good work, and He will see it through. He will calm our anxious hearts and never leave us or forsake us. Without His promises, we could never have embarked on this journey or continued to stay the course.

Thank you for joining us and for continuing to pray for us and support us. You are the hands and feet of Christ, and we feel you with us every step of the way...to God be the glory. He is doing GREAT things!

"He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Phil 1:6