Faith

Before we began this process I often wondered how it feels to be in the midst of an adoption process. In many ways it is very similar to being pregnant; the worries of the health and safety of your baby, the range of emotions and the worry about finances are among the similarities. Just like a pregnancy, an adoption, an international one at that, is a journey of faith. Your child, your money, your paperwork are in the hands of a foreign government that controls who they allow to take their babies and how many babies to give over to international adoption. Currently things have slowed down so much in the China Adoption process that they are referring babies at a snail's pace. The referrals haven't stopped, they have just dramatically slowed down! A huge rumor floating around the international adoption world is that China is getting ready to implement some new regulations on people adopting from their country to try and decrease the number of dossiers coming into their country. We have finished all of our paperwork and the documents are back from Houston. Everything is official now and they next step is to send our dossier to our agency. Along with our agency we have to pay our second agency fee and our first China Center for Adoption Affairs fee. This is a pretty large sum of money and we currently do not have all of it. So we are faced with a decision. We can hold onto our dossier until we have saved up the money. With this decision we run the risk of China changing some of their regulations and requirements that may or may not affect us. Or we can send the dossier to our agency with the need to temporarily put some of the cost on credit so that we can possibly have a log in date before the new regulations are in place. Please pray for us we seek God for an answer and that we can be at peace with whatever direction we choose. This truly is a journey of faith!