Making Progress

We have had a very successful past few days! We had a couple of mini-miracles that I can't really give details about but have been major wins for us and have just continued to show us God's favor and grace!

We have completed the last of our current paperwork for our home study!! We also learned that all of our background checks have come in except for Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and our criminal checks for Nebraska (with FBI fingerprinting). Yesterday and today we took a "Parents in Process" class at our agency's local branch office that had to be completed before we can start the next steps. They were great classes that helped us to start preparing our hearts and minds for what is ahead of us and becoming a multi-cultural family. It was also an awesome opportunity to meet with a local social worker and 5 other families in the process. We are excited to continue building those relationships in the future as we met a lot of really great people. Lastly, we are still waiting for 3 of our 4 references to complete their questionnaires and then we can start our home study interviews!! It's very exciting! 

We are making progress on our dossier as well. We have ordered extra copies of our birth certificates and marriage certificate (we need 2 or 3 certified copies of each!) We put out requests to our current church and our past church in Ohio for our pastoral references and to our bosses for our employer references.

We've also been trying to track down a psychologist or psychiatrist that can complete our psychological evaluations. We've had multiple references from our church but so far none of them do both of the tests we need to have completed. Please keep in your prayers that we will not just find one but the right one! We may have to spend quite a bit of time on this so we are believing it will be another person that God puts in our path for a reason.

Hopefully my next update will be that we have a social worker assigned and are starting our interviews! I have a fundraiser coming up that I'll share too once I get some made and can show some pictures. Thanks for all the prayers and support!