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"If orphan children never experience a family's love, how can we expect them to comprehend God's love? Adoption by a Christian family is the best way for orphan children to become adopted children of God!"
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Our Son B.J.
Maui
Fellow Adopting Couples' Blogs
- The Rose Family Adoption Journey
- Finding Baby Pfalzer
- Based on a True Story
- Journey To Poland To Bring Our Daughter Home
- On Our Way To Poland/Lee and Martha
- We're Gonna Need Another Straw/Scott and Jena
- 5150 Miles to Motherhood/Jennifer and Ryan
- Adopting From Poland/Jeff and Debbie
- 3Bax/Dave and Teresa
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ADOPTION TIMELINE
- September (09)-Welcome Home BJ! September 12
- August (09)-Gotcha Day: August 17! Adoption became finalized!
- JULY(09)-Received travel call on July 6. Initial time frame before we left, 4 days! AHHH! Later become 2 weeks! We left on July 26!
- JUNE (09)-Waiting for travel call.
- MAY (09)-Received referral! Accepted!
- APRIL (09)-Waiting! Searching for loans and grants!
- MARCH (09)-Received first referral. Did not accept.
- FEBRUARY (09)-Waiting some more!
- JANUARY (09)-Just Waiting!
- DECEMBER (08)-Dossier turned into Poland! Yeah!
- NOVEMBER (08)-Finished and turned in dossier! Raised enough $ to pay dossier and translation fee! Praise God!
- OCTOBER (08)-Finished apostilling everything for dossier. Getting pictures together of family and home.
- SEPTEMBER (08)-Received $4,000 grant from Saohannah's Hope! Yea! Sent out support letters to friends and family.
- AUGUST (08)-Apostilled home study with North Carolina and Birth Certificates with California. Received $2,500 Matching Grant from Lifesong! Praise God!
- JULY (08)-Received CIS Approval! Yeah! Waiting on grant approvals. Sending in dossier documents to be apostilled.
- JUNE (08)-Applying for grants/loans. Still waiting on CIS.
- MAY (08)-Started applying for grants. Are waiting for CIS approval.
- APRIL (08)-Were fingerprinted for our CIS document. Completed home study, Yeah!
- MARCH (08)-Received acceptance letter from SMIA. Turned in agreement. Turned in I-600A (CIS) document. Continue home study meetings.
- FEBRUARY (08)-Began home study procedures. Switched to Saint Mary International Adoptions/Poland. Turned in application.
- JANUARY (08)-Phone call from CHI, needed to find our own social worker, found and went with LSS. Referral times for Kazakhstan had increased and were unstable. Possible switch to Russia (24 months referral time). Much prayer this month. Began searching for other options!
- NOVEMBER & December (07)-Completed fingerprint requirements, still collecting home study papers. Still waiting for home study to begin.
- OCTOBER (07)-Received approval letter from CHI. Started collecting home study papers.
- SEPTEMBER (07)-Turned application into CHI.
Information About Poland
Our Adoption Agency
Matching Grant Ministry
Adoption Statistics
Did You Know?...
-Every DAY 5,760 more children become orphans
-In Poland today there are more than 700 orphanages -the highest number in Central Europe- including about 100 smaller orphanages run by families. They are home to about 80,000 children.
For More Statistcs:
http://www.hfgf.org/statistics.pdf
-Every DAY 5,760 more children become orphans
-In Poland today there are more than 700 orphanages -the highest number in Central Europe- including about 100 smaller orphanages run by families. They are home to about 80,000 children.
For More Statistcs:
http://www.hfgf.org/statistics.pdf
The Bible Speaks of Adoption
Orphan Ministries
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We are so excited and proud of you. You are going to be the best parents. We can't wait to meet BJ! You are truly an inspiration and a lesson to us all about patience and waiting on the Lord. Congrats again. -The Koss family
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