September Update

Oh my goodness...where do I start?! 

The home study process is officially coming to an end. The social worker reports, home inspection, medical reports, your reference forms, etc are now in "my file" and are being sent off to Bethany's corporate office in Michigan along with my social worker's official recommendation (She assures me I passed). 

We now move onto the inter-country dossier and immigration process.  I have to get approval from both the Chinese and US governments to take a child out of one country & bring it into the other.  I can do all this without yet having a child match, which is good.  I was told yesterday that I have to declare either Hong Kong or China before moving forward.  I have yet to figure out the geo-political divisions that somehow makes Hong Kong and their orphaned children different than China, but apparently the paperwork...and the cost...are wildly different. I had just figured out how to finance on my own the MUCH cheaper process through Hong Kong when I was presented with this option yesterday.  I promised my social worker that I would pray & honestly, I thought Hong Kong was going to be the clear answer.  But then, all day yesterday & this morning, I've kept hearing "if you are going to trust Me to provide, you've got to let Me provide all the way."  That's a tough one to argue with...so Little One is coming from China and we/I/me are believe God to provide for the additional $10,000 to bring him/her home. 

I smile to think of the 'birth' story I'll have to share with this child--God's hand so intimately apart of every detail; the miraculous threads that have sown our family together.  What an absolute honor to be chosen to be a part of God's story for him/her.   Praise you Lord.