Adoption application, interviews, autobiographies, writing about spouse, parenting/adoption questionnaires, background checks, home fire inspection, financial information, medical exams for everyone, pictures of family members, pictures of house, pictures of yard, reference letters, employment letter, passports, FBI fingerprints, new birth and marriage certificates, notarizing,
fed-exing, hours of “training”, U.S. Customs and Immigration approval.
This is just a small snapshot of what has been done the last couple of months to complete the application stage for our adoption. All of this hunting and gathering of information took me back to my previous life BC (before children) when I was a news reporter…but this time I was collecting the facts with three kids in tow. And this time it isn’t my story, but His story.
Once we passed our home study this summer, we moved to a major step in the process…our dossier. A dossier (pronounced “doss-e-A”) is “a collection of documents that are necessary to meet the legal requirements for adoption from a foreign country as well as the immigration requirements of the U.S. Government.” Once the documents were collected, they were then notarized, and mailed back out for adding various seals from our county, state, and the U.S. government. Our adoption agency, Holt International, then mailed our completed dossier to China. Once the CCCWA (China Center for Child Welfare and Adoption) received it, they logged it into their system on September 22, 2015, which is our LID (Log In Date). This LID is where we “officially” began our wait….our wait to receive a referral of an abandoned child in China…a child that, based on the timeframe, has probably already been born and waiting on his/her forever family. I am not a person who likes to wait, but I know this child’s wait is much harder.
I also know God is working in this wait.
My Bible study this week is about waiting. Funny, I know. I am impatient. What a great reminder for me about how God works in the wait…He can use the wait to mold us and shape us to be more like Him. Patience is a fruit of a faithful spirit. Oh how He is pruning! Psalm 27 was part of my study on Friday…specifically verses 13-14. Two days later when we were in the car, my daughter wanted to read her Bible to us and amazingly started with the exact same verse.
“I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait I say, on the Lord!” Psalm 27:13-14
Oh how I can’t wait to see how the rest of His story unfolds. But for now,
we wait.
“We will update you with any breaking news as it becomes available. ”
fed-exing, hours of “training”, U.S. Customs and Immigration approval.
This is just a small snapshot of what has been done the last couple of months to complete the application stage for our adoption. All of this hunting and gathering of information took me back to my previous life BC (before children) when I was a news reporter…but this time I was collecting the facts with three kids in tow. And this time it isn’t my story, but His story.
Once we passed our home study this summer, we moved to a major step in the process…our dossier. A dossier (pronounced “doss-e-A”) is “a collection of documents that are necessary to meet the legal requirements for adoption from a foreign country as well as the immigration requirements of the U.S. Government.” Once the documents were collected, they were then notarized, and mailed back out for adding various seals from our county, state, and the U.S. government. Our adoption agency, Holt International, then mailed our completed dossier to China. Once the CCCWA (China Center for Child Welfare and Adoption) received it, they logged it into their system on September 22, 2015, which is our LID (Log In Date). This LID is where we “officially” began our wait….our wait to receive a referral of an abandoned child in China…a child that, based on the timeframe, has probably already been born and waiting on his/her forever family. I am not a person who likes to wait, but I know this child’s wait is much harder.
I also know God is working in this wait.
My Bible study this week is about waiting. Funny, I know. I am impatient. What a great reminder for me about how God works in the wait…He can use the wait to mold us and shape us to be more like Him. Patience is a fruit of a faithful spirit. Oh how He is pruning! Psalm 27 was part of my study on Friday…specifically verses 13-14. Two days later when we were in the car, my daughter wanted to read her Bible to us and amazingly started with the exact same verse.
“I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait I say, on the Lord!” Psalm 27:13-14
Oh how I can’t wait to see how the rest of His story unfolds. But for now,
we wait.
“We will update you with any breaking news as it becomes available. ”