A few weeks ago we decided to finally
'share' our story publicly with our church family. Andrew has been
apart of our church, Hope Fellowship for his entire life (with the
exception of two years in alberta) and I've been there for about 8
years now. It's like family. So after sharing our journey with all of
our family and friends, we wanted to also share with “Hope”.
We shared briefly about our struggles
in infertility and then we talked about adoption and the journey
we've been navigating in the past few months, and how international
just doesn't feel right to us at this time. We also invited
discernment and prayers as we go through this.
We were blessed to not only have our pastor and good friend pray over us (see him and his wonderful wife in the pics above) but also my dad was in attendance that morning and prayed a beautiful prayer of blessing over us. (Sorry that Mom had to miss out, she was working!) Dad's voice choked up with emotion when he prayed for the child, born or unborn, wherever she or he might be. We love you Dad.
A week ago, we finished up our workbook
and now wait to hear from a Social Worker. Once we have met with the
SW, we can officially apply. It's good to keep moving forward on the
process and at the end of the day, I'm so thankful that God is in
control of this process NOT me. Because I don't know how long this
wait will be. I don't know what type of criteria we can accept on our
application. I don't know what age I can handle. But God knows and
every day I am putting this back into His hands.
