Tuesday, January 24, 2012

What’s new with our adoption?

Kevin and I have been busy the last couple weeks trying to get our last steps completed before we could submit our dossier to our agency! Finally on January 20th we mailed our dossier to our agency with a check of $4838! Whew! Our agency will compile all the documents according to the standards of the Congo government and they will send it off! Yay! Baby Weldon, we are going to get you soon! We have not gotten our I600A Immigration approval but the Congo doesn’t require that approval to be sent with the dossier so we can send our immigration approval to our agency when we receive word that we have been approved! We had 7 months to complete our dossier and we have gotten it done in 1 month! That means we will be put on the waiting list sooner than we had thought! Praise the Lord!
Goodbye Dossier! Hello Congo!

We are now in the process of applying for grants to help reduce the cost of our adoption! We should have 2 grant applications submitted to Lifesong for Orphans and to the Southern Baptist Minister Grant Fund this week. Also, we have been accepted to be the featured family the week of February 26th with an organization called Give1 Save1. Basically, people donate $1 towards our adoption fund and if 1000 people give $1 then that’s $1000 that goes to bringing home our baby! It is such an awesome idea and we are privileged to be part of this ministry!! 

Give $1 to the featured family this week! Click here!
NEXT STEP: FUNDRAISE, FUNDRAISE, FUNDRAISE!
OUR NEXT PAYMENT $3500.    

3 comments:

  1. Debbie,
    We posted this to your Facebook page, but thought we'd share it here also, in case you don't see it in time [at Facebook]. If you get Gospel Music Channel, or someone you know does, you will definitely want to tune in on January 31st:

    http://www.watchgmctv.com/video/song

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  2. Welcome! We are hoping to record it.

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