Well it has been quite a long time since I have updated the blog, but that is because we are in the waiting process. When you are adopting it is so exciting in the beginning when you are filling out paperwork, completing home studies and obtaining approval but after all those things happen the waiting game begins. It is the most un-exciting thing about the whole process. We are approved and just waiting for the call that says we have been recommended for a child. That has happened for us once already, but we were one out if five families chosen for this particular child but in the end we were not the family chosen. Yes, this was disappointing but we know that God has the perfect child already picked out for us.
This week we were able to attend the Project 111 kickoff event. Project 111 is an organization who's goal is to find Christian homes for children who are in foster care and need to be adopted in the state of Florida. We attended this event thinking that it would be just an event to encourage us and keep us positive about the adoption process but little did we know that God was going to speak to us and open up our hearts to a new process. While we were at this event we heard story after story of foster children who's lives were changed when they were given a home and parents through foster care. We heard Michelle from the joy fm's testimony as well as from her daughter Crystal who went through the foster care system. Through all of this both Eddie and I felt the Holy Spirit tugging at us. After the event we both turned to each other and said " we are supposed to foster" it was an immediate consensus. Without even speaking to each other during the event we both knew God was speaking to us. We spoke with Michelle and decided to speak with our adoption agency about what the process would be to start fostering.
Next week, we begin the paperwork to begin the foster care licensing process. Please pray for us and for the process. We are listening to the call that God has put in our hearts and obeying his word to take care of the least of these. We want to help as many children as possible. Our human side is afraid and nervous but we know that God will be with us!!! We are so excited to see how God will use us and how our hearts will be blessed by fostering.
