God Has A Plan

Hello Friends!
I just wanted to give you an update on the adoption.  It has been pretty AMAZING at what God is doing in our lives.  In every direction, we can see the hand of God working!  We had been struggling with the decision about what agency to go through with the adoption.  At every corner we turned, somebody was telling us about a private adoption that might be possible or they knew of someone that had just adopted privately.  We kept going .....God what do you want us to do......and I believe He answered us!!!

We recently have sent out a letter about fundraising for the adoption and that we were going through Catholic Services of Pensacola, Fl.  Well before I passed out the letters at my school, I prayed over the letters and asked God to just lead us in this endeavor if it is His will.  I prayed over them saying, "God you're in control and do what you need to do.  I am looking at this financially and I am overwhelmed.  We need all of our friends help.  We need to know if this agency is the one you want us to go through."  Well at 10:30 that morning I put all of the letters in the teachers' boxes at my school.  At 10:36 I received an email from a friend of mine telling me that he knew of someone who wanted to give up their baby for a closed adoption and would we want to pursue this.......As Gomer Pyle would say, "Well I'll be!"  I kept saying is this for real God....I mean for real.......

So we are pursuing this! :0)  The young lady is 14 weeks pregnant.  My friend is helping us every step of the way.  In fact, he and his family adopted a daughter about a year ago or so.  He has been through the ropes.  He is helping us in dealing with the attorney, and the birth mother, and how to deal with all of the documentation.  God has blessed us with a friend that is so freely giving up his time to meet with attorneys and dealing with all of the parties involved while still working at his job and having his own family time.  We are blessed to have his wisdom in this process.

I must say that is all going a little bit faster than we thought.  I am still kind of freaked out about the financial part of it but I know God is going to provide the funds right on time for each step of the way. 

I would ask you to pray for the following:  please pray for the birth mother, pray that God puts his hedges of protection around the birth mother and the baby,  pray for peace in this process and to realize that God is in control of all of this, pray for the attorney to have wisdom in dealing with all of the documentation, that money will come in at that right time, pray that we would be parents that will provide a Godly home, and pray that the baby will grow up to have a relationship with Christ and will serve Christ.

Thanks for praying for us!  Thank you for helping us out!
Love,
Kathy and Joseph