Adoption Prayer Challenge

(If you receive our monthly newsletters, you've likely already seen this.)

“How’s the adoption going?” is a question we are asked all the time, and honestly we haven’t had much to report for a long time.  We’re feeling rather discouraged.  It’s been one and a half years since we began this “paper pregnancy”.  However, getting the right papers in the right hands at the right time is proving more difficult than we ever imagined.  We firmly believe that every step of this process is guided by our Father’s loving hand and we also believe that our prayers have power to move His hand.  We desperately desire two little girls to join our family, to walk through our doors and into our arms as our children. 

So... we want to mobilize as many people as possible to join us in a special time of prayer.

Here are the next main steps in our adoption process:

1) Dossier to China—This means that all our paperwork with all the proper authentications needs to get into the hands of the Chinese government to prove that we are fit to parent children.

2) Referral of a child—Our adoption agency will send us a picture and medical information about a specific little girl.  We then have 36 hours to pray, contact doctors about her conditions and make a decision to accept or decline this child.

3) Match—When we tell our agency, “yes, we want this child,” more paperwork and official permissions follow.  This process takes 6 to 8 months.  Prayerfully the referral and matching process will happen twice, for two different girls at about the same time.

4) Travel in China—Once all the documents are in the right places, we will receive permission to travel to pick up our children.

5) Travel to US—In order to become US citizens, to address our children’s medical needs, and to introduce them to family and friends who have been waiting to meet them, finally, we will travel to the States with our daughters.

Here’s what we’re asking you to do… please consider how you might join us in moving the Father’s hand to bring our little ones home.  

 

A Challenge to Pray

 

1.  On Monday April 23, during lunch, pray through all five of these steps.

2.  April 23^rd- 27^th during lunch take time to pray for each of these five steps.

3.  Join Mark and I as we fast and pray Mondays at lunch each week until our daughters come home.