The Journey

This adoption journey has been a very, very long process. Even after we knew we were called to adopt it took us several months to accept and process everything. It then took us a number of months to research and decide upon an adoption agency and a homestudy agency. We chose American World out of Brentwood as our homestudy agency. They were endorsed by ShowHope, an orphan awareness and fundraising organization started by Steven Curtis Chapman. We chose CCAI as our adoption agency because of their reputation and cost.

I guess it took about five months for our homestudy to be complete and then we began working on our Dossier which is a huge compilation of paperwork, signatures, and notaries. That took another four months. Once that made it to China we were officially logged into the system in September, 2013. After that it was pretty much a waiting game. We waited through Halloween, then Thanksgiving, then Christmas and the New Year. We waited through the Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day. Then five months from our log in date we finally found her! The very day in early March that we requested her file I had been told by a nice lady at our agency that our wait time might be another few months. But as fate would have it they listed a new file on the agency website that I just happened to notice soon after it was posted. I immediately emailed a request to view her file. I couldn't believe that we weren't matched to her to begin with. She met every criteria we initially specified. But the decision to accept her file came slowly. We prayed and analyzed and then prayed and analyzed some more. We finally concluded that this was another time when we just needed to take a leap of faith. So we said yes to Dang Can Can of Nanyang, China.

We are getting closer to bringing her home each day. It is looking like we will be traveling sometime in June, but that could change to sooner or later. We are at the mercy of the Chinese government which is not a comforting feeling. We would sincerely appreciate your prayer support as we near the end of the paperchase and the beginning of the travel leg of the journey.