IN THE BEGINNING

Welcome to our journey to Ethiopia to adopt. The steps to our journey began back in November. God had been speaking to my heart for several years regarding adoption. I mostly looked at foster adopt because the costs of International Adoption seemed overwhelming. David had a heart for orphans but did not feel this was our call. In November we listened to a series of sermons entitled "Awaken" and then attended an adoption meeting at our church. That day we both went home knowing our call to adopt was an international one and we would need to trust God for the resources. Suddenly the cost did not seem so overwhelming anymore. We've always had a heart for African missions but let the two trip requirement for an Ethiopian adoption sway us to China where only one trip is required. We applied to an agency for a Special Needs China adoption but God had other plans for us. We were turned down for a China adoption because we both had incurred mild forms of skin cancer previously. God steered us back to Ethiopia knowing that was what He had placed on our heart all along. In January we began our home study and dossier and were well on the road to Ethiopia.