A couple of years ago, we were both touched by the sermon series at our church relating to adoption. We discussed it and felt that God may be calling us to adopt. Then we received a book about adoption from a pastor we know (that we didn’t even order) and felt that this was one way God was telling us to move forward. His families’ story about adoption was very moving. We thought adoption could be a possibility for our future, but soon thereafter our brother-in-law found out he had cancer. We sensed a great need to be available for Joe’s family, so the adoption calling went on the “back burner”. However, early last year separately we were feeling led to adopt again. When we mentioned the idea to each other, it confirmed our desire and leading to adopt. From the beginning we felt like we should adopt siblings, hopefully a boy and a girl. We thought about adopting older children but were told we had to adopt children younger than our youngest. After praying and talking, we felt adopting internationally was the best fit for our family. We originally wanted to adopt from Haiti, but they had just had the earthquake and we weren’t sure we would even qualify based on their regulations. We researched many countries including Russia, China, Romania, Guatemala, and Ethiopia, etc. We ended up feeling like God was calling us to Africa and specifically Ghana, Africa. We knew that we had who were in the process of adopting from Ghana, and hoped we would have support process of adoption. We started the process in June 2010. We completed our homestudy November 2010 and have been working on our dossier paperwork ever since. On our shirts is the verse "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you." John 14:18 which has become our theme especially since we now have actual children we are pursuing. More to come in subsequent posts! Stay tuned!!!
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