Next step -- homestudy

As we weave our way toward Brooklyn I want to keep you abreast of what's going on. On Monday our social worker is scheduled to come to our house in the next step toward completing our homestudy. She will be checking to make sure that our house is safe for a child. Please keep us in your prayers that we've not missed something.

We are also frantically working on other parts of the homestudy. There is a lot to do, and we are determined to get it done as quickly as possible. We have a lot of reading and required training courses to complete. We had to go to the police station to be fingerprinted last week. We are gathering birth certificates, financial information, and other documents that are required. We're even having to write fairly extensive autobiographies. It is almost overwhelming. If everyone had to go to this much trouble to have a child there would be a lot fewer children in the world. We know, though, that the result will be worth all of the effort. Just look at our little girl on the slide below . . . doesn't she look like she needs to be playing in our backyard?

 

On top of all of this we've been praising God for the work that he is doing through people like you. To date we have raised $1700 of the $2700 that we will need for the homestudy on Monday. Time is getting short, but I know that God will provide right on time.