Wow! Where has the time gone? It's seems like just last week when we became excited about our Immigration Documents being processed! That was six months ago! Oh well, time flies when your busy and that we've been! It's been awhile since we last updated and a lot has happened. So, we'll start with the most recent and go backwards.
December 10-We received an email from our agency that we sent her the wrong notarized document. I couldn't believe it! The one final piece of paper the completes our dossier and we send her the wrong one! She claims that this won't effect how soon it gets turned into the Polish authorities so we hope that's the truth. Otherwise, here is another hold up that is taking up our precious time! Just in case, we mailed the right one TODAY! We'll let you know when our documents are in Poland! Hopefully it will be soon!
(Melanie Writes)
November 28-This was the day of our combined Thanksgiving Service at our church. We were blessed by a very surprising, yet generous outpouring of love from our congregation. This particular morning I was singing on the praise team and James was sitting in the balcony. The Pastor had just said a prayer and I was getting ready to sing a solo, when the pastor called us both to the front. Surprised we came as directed. Our Pastor then started to explain to the congregation what we were doing and how much it cost. He also added what great parents we would be and how we were following the Lords Will. He then asked for donations! By the time he was done and we sat back down I was in tears and still had to sing! Thankfully, I was able to sing with a whole new spirit. The song was entitled "He's Been Faithful!" Fitting, don't you think! We later found out that the congregation donated almost $1000. Now that's what I call "the Body of Christ" at work! (We're still working on our thank yous!)
November 20-This Thursday night we had the opportunity to attend a special dinner hosted by our social worker through Lutheran Social Services. (Melanie's parents came too!) Everyone there had either adopted, was in the process, or was considering it (as my dad puts it "an adoption support group" of sorts). We met many great couples and kids! It was a great experience and we had a lot of fun! James even won a prize! While there we also met a great couple who live just outside of Galesburg named Scott and Jena Cramer! They are adopting a little girl from Ethiopia and have an awesome adoption story! I hope they don't mind, but I have added them to our list of blogs that we follow! I also found out that Jena used to teach kindergarten in the same school were I teach! What a small world! Here is a picture of the "adoption support group!" I had to scan it in so it's a little hard to see, but you'll get the idea!
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How neat that your church family surprised you with such a special love gift. I sympathize with you about having to do a document over. We have to have our cover letter authenticated again as our final document. We already did it once but found out later about it being the final thing dated. I ran into Debbie Cline today and she was glad that we had finally met each other. We would love to get together with you again. maybe after the Holidays and all this crazy weather! Have a Merry Christmas! I keep thinking about next Christmas how wonderful it will be to have our little girl here. The same for you. Next Christmas will be so special for you!! Enjoy this last quiet Christmas because 2 kids will make it so fun! Enjoy your days off of school. I feel blessed that you would add us to your blog.
Love, Jena
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