Greetings! We are announcing the exciting news that we are working towards adopting. Kevin and I had thought about it before we were married. We had Jordan in '93 and didn't think much of it for awhile. We seriously considered it again in '96 when we thought we couldn't have more children but then there came Emily '97, Isaac '98, and Caleb '99. Then we were just busy! Along came Rebekah Jan. '02, Gideon Dec. 02, and Moriah '04 and life was busy again. Now our baby is three. In the last year, we have had the strongest desire to adopt and it is not going away. We are looking into adopting a sibling group from Ethiopia, Africa. We believe we are called to this for different reasons; We want to give children a home who do not have one. Psalm 68:6 "He sets the solitary in families." We want to pass on a heritage to our children. What if all of our children adopted too? How many children without a home would find one then? Also, we want to because we desire to follow God's plan for us. One may say we have enough children already, why would we do this? Psalms 127 has been a favorite verse of our family, it says in verses 3-5 "Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior so are the children of one's youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them." We named our blog adopting arrows. They won't be from my womb but they will be from our heart. We do not believe our quiver is as full as God would have it.
We are calling on friends and family to share in this life changing experience. Please pray for us whenever you can for God's hand to touch those involved in this process. We are bringing this before God's people to do a great work.
Pray:
*God would keep working in our family to prepare us for this experience.
*God would provide what we need for the home study, travel costs and the final adoption.
*God's protection on the children he has planned for us.
Matthew 21:22 "And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
Please send this on to anyone whom you know would pray for our family. God Bless You!
courageous
