Well, here we are, eight months into our adoption journey and we finally have a blog to share this journey with all of you. To make a long story short....after several years of discussing and praying about if and how we should add to our family, Barry and I decided on the path of adoption for our third child...it's a girl! After several more months of prayer and discussion we believe our daughter is waiting on us in Bulgaria. We have been on this path since March of this year and we are finally to the point that it is completely out of our hands. We completed out home study and sent all of our paper work off to Bulgaria in early October. Our file is currently being translated into Bulgarian and the agency there expects to have it filed with the Ministry of Justice within the week. We are well on the way to our long wait to finding out what our daughter looks like and what her name is. We still have a long road ahead but there is some comfort in knowing there's nothing we can do at this point to slow things down!
We are also a long way from having our entire journey paid for. We are beginning our first fund raising actions by partnering with "147 Million Orphans", a not for profit organization based here in Nashville that creates and sells merchandise like shirts, hats, jewelry and such to bring awareness to the need of the orphans of the world as well as raise money to feed these sweet children. "147 Million Orphans" also offers fund raising partnership opportunities to adopting families like ours to help offset the cost of adoption so more children can be brought home to their forever families. Thirty percent of all the merchandise sold in our account goes back into our adoption process, if you are willing to help support us in this way please follow the link below to see all the great things they offer. Your support will not only bring us closer to our daughter but it will help spread the word that so many children in this world still need homes.
http://www.147millionorphans.com/?AffId=112
Most importantly, we ask that you support our journey through your prayers. Please pray that we are comforted and feel God's peace in our hearts as we wait to meet our little girl. Please pray that God will continue to fill our hearts with love for her the way He has since we began our journey. Please pray that God's perfect timing is as short as possible! Please pray that out daughter is warm and fed, loved and well cared for while she waits for us to come. Please pray that God is preparing her heart for the family that already loves her more than we ever thought we could love someone we've never known.
