Merry Christmas!

We arrived home around 9pm on Sunday night to our big extended family cheering us home with banners and signs... and food!  It was overwelming.  God has provided so many times and has answered prayers in so many ways we have a hard time understanding it.  Thank you for your prayers.

We said over and over that yesterday felt like Christmas day.  Everything was new to the girls and everything that seems so simple in the US was appreciated by us.  I can't express the full joy we had yesterday that God is always faithful.  It wasn't just about being in a 3rd world country for 5 weeks, it was about a 2 year long struggle with God that has ended.  God won.  But He won in a way that allowed us to win too.  Big Jesus!

Here we go

God is always faithful. We leave for Uganda tomorrow morning to adopt our two little girls. We are going as a family so your prayers are greatly appreciated!

To God Be the Glory

God has closed so many doors throughout the past year and a half that we thought we were not going to go to Uganda - at least we thought for now.  We had decided to move back into our house at the end of August and then God miraculously sold our house.  We were confused as to why He did that since we had no plans to go to Uganda.  It makes more sense now.  If we had moved back into our house, we would've been closed to what He had in mind for us.  He wasn't done with us yet. 

   

Amy's friend was in Uganda a couple months ago adopting a child, and Amy asked her if there were other children that she knew of that needed a family.  She said there were two sisters needing to be adopted, ages 5 and 3.  We prayed about it and got in touch with the adoption agency.  They were very helpful, and we started the process.  We applied to the adoption agency, and we were accepted.  We re-started our homestudy and are currently in the process of gathering all of the required information for international adoption.  We plan on going to Uganda this spring with our kids to bring their sisters home.  God has provided all along.  His plans are perfect.  God WAS opening doors for us and because of so many closed doors, it was confirmation that we were doing what He wanted.  As if to give us even more encouragement, we found out that someone donated to the agency to help with our adoption expenses.  This was shocking to us since we hadn’t told very many people that we were adopting and even fewer people the name of the agency we are using. 

   

As you can imagine, taking Amy and I and 4 kids to Uganda and bringing 6 kids back is expensive.  Combine this with the adoption fees, and it easily becomes very overwhelming.  God has provided once again in a very big way.  Yesterday, I was handed a check for almost the exact amount it will take to cover our costs!  Cody said, “That’s an answered prayer!”  Brandy said, “Now we know God wants us to adopt them!”  As the saying goes, “God is rarely early, but He is never late.”  We are soooo glad that He is in control!!!!