Appointment & Orphan Ministry

So, I have finished up the homestudy paperwork finally (we missed a few things) and I redid the background checks since they are no longer good. Now I just need to go and see a therapist who will write something up that my post-partum issues are resolved and I will be just fine parenting more kids. I had an appointment last week but it was snowing and the road were not the greatest so I cancelled it. Now Matthew is going to reschedule it for me since I have lost my voice today.

Hope also received a call from a pastor at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church in Plover, WI about joining them in their orphan ministry. It turns out that the pastor and his wife from Beautiful Savior adopted children from Ethiopia. We have also made other numerous connections with families in the area who have adopted or are planning on adopting from Ethiopia and there is growing interested in starting up a group of families to meet every now and then to keep our childrens' culture alive.

In other news I am attempting to put together a Q&A section regarding our adoption. So look for that in the days to come.

Homestudy Interview

Our homestudy interview with LSS is scheduled for November 18, 2009!

Next up: Second part of our CHSFS paperwork.

PRAISE BE TO GOD!

Busy with...many things

There are so many things on my plate right now. I have a house to get unpacked, my brother’s wedding to attend (or my college graduation), children to watch and on top of it all I have set the end of May as a paperwork deadline. Yep, that’s right . . . I will have all the homestudy paperwork done by the end of May. God is good!

On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God. Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. 

Psalm 62:7-8  

Let's try this again

In my last post I mentioned that my husband had received a call to another congregation. After much prayer and thought he accepted it. We are now at Hope Lutheran Church in De Pere, WI. We moved here on April 17 and after some unpacking and many of us getting sick with the flu we are now moving forward again with our adoption. We are still working with LSS and CHSFS. However, instead of working with the Wausau office of LSS we will now be working with the Appleton office. 

In the next few weeks we hope to complete the paperwork for the next round of background checks. Since we just moved to a new county and city we must have background checks provided for those locations. After that is completed we will finally move forward with the rest of our homestudy.

I know that I have not been all that great with posting here in the last three months or so but that is about to change....I have made the commitment to post here once a week by Friday.

Passports and Adoption Paperwork

Greetings!  So, we are still waiting on one background check (Marathon County Sheriff's Department).  Hopefully, they get it in soon.  It was the only background check I had to pay for and it is the only one that took longer than a week!  Grrrr.  While we are waiting for that - and while I have some "free" time on my hands - I am getting my passport application ready.  That's right...I've never had a passport.  I'm old enough to remember when you didn't need a passport to cross the Mexican border :)  So, I am filling out my application - which is quite exciting by the way - and getting the needed fees, proof of identity, proof of citizenship and all that wonderful stuff together.  Then it is on to Matthew's renewal application.  The picture on his old passport is AWESOME!  Ask him -- wait, ask me and I will show it to you.