Domestic Adoption and Dossier

Today was another exciting day of adoption progress!  Here are the updates:

Domestic Adoption:  We had an orientation conversation with our adoption agency on Monday, and we are more impressed with them and thankful for their ministry after every interaction.  Even though I thought it would take me a month or two to get the paperwork done... it only took 10 days!  God is gracious.  We mailed it off to Life Choices today, and we have our next phone conversation with them scheduled for this coming Monday.  After that, we'll put together a family profile, which is kind of like a scrapbook about our family.  Once we put it in the mail, our profile will begin to be shown to birth mothers.  It's surreal to think this is even possible, but our profile could begin being shown in 3-4 weeks!

Ethiopian Adoption: We had a few tweaks to make to our dossier after I emailed it to the agency for review.  Today I put it in the mail.  What a relief to have it behind us!  We probably have another month to go before we get our immigration approval about the change of country from Congo to Ethiopia.  Once we receive it, we'll email it to Lifeline and then our names can be added to the waiting list for a referral.  We hear that the referral wait time is about 14 months, so we're eager to begin that wait.

We're so thankful to the Lord for two excellent Christian agencies and the opportunity to grow our family through adoption!