Beginning Stages

September 2007 marked the beginning of our pursuit of adopting from Rwanda.  We had been talking with friends one evening about the possibility of adopting and how that had always been on our hearts.  Without knowing about this discussion, the very next morning I received a call from my close friend who had just heard that Rwanda was opening up for adoption.  I immediately wrote my dear friend in Rwanda who responded quickly by telling me that her sister was the connection point for the Rwandan side of international adoptions!  I couldn't believe it, very dear friends of ours in Rwanda would be our point people for an adoption?!   Close friends and family know more specifically how clearly we've been directed with our adoption, it has just been remarkable!

In January, we got in contact with Gladney Center for Adoption, Fort Worth Texas, who took our information and said that they would get in touch with us once their staff were ready to get going in this latest country added to their international adoption community.  Weeks went by and one day I started getting concerned that things wouldn't begin, that the gov't was changing their mind about adoptions.  A few hours later I received a call, the call to get paperwork started!  March 1, 2008 our official adoption journey began.

There have been SO many times in this adoption process that answers to our prayers have been answered nearly immediately.  If not immediate, then there were CLEAR reasons why they weren't quick and the result was astonishing.  We feel that the Lord has confirmed over and over again that He wants us to keep walking toward our 3rd child.  We are humbled by how He has been guiding us and providing.