Got a lot of paperwork from the agency today. We should be getting our first contract via email in the next day or so. We just found out that we have 90 days to pay the first contract payment or case can go inactive. Please pray for us and with us that God will provide this money to us for the first contract. We are very thankful to some who have offered to help do fundraisers with and for us. If you want to help us in anyway or know more about the adoption or fund raising efforts please email us. We have been told of some very sad situations of some angels in Peru. The stories break our hearts. There are a few we have been told about and are praying for them. We know they can not all be ours but we can pray for God to provide them with the right home. We ask you to pray for them too as we know God loves these children and would not turn them away. I keep thinking about Matthew 19: 13- 14. If Jesus would not turn these children away it should be our joy to at least pray for the orphans james1: 27.

So excited!!!! We just got confirmation of agency acceptance.

Paid part of our home study cost today. We still have agency contracts and etc. Please pray for God to provide the money for the adoption as that is what will slow us down the most. We also did our first adoption education class today. Very interesting on multicultural families. It got us thinking about how as missionaries living in a foreign country you are multicultural to varying degrees. We have done a lot of paperwork for the homestudy. Prayiing hard for the ability to do this in a timely manner. Thanks for your prayers.

Well today we got a call from the adoption agency saying they have received our application and our application payment. Also that we should be receiving a call from them in couple weeks talking to us more about the adoption process and their Peru adoption program. Our next steps is the home study process which we will have a man come here and do the home study a long process and much paper work. Also the contracts for the agency is in our next step in our adoption process. We are excited about this process and looking forward as we take each step of the adoption process.

Our story

After years of being married and unable to have a child, we discovered that crystal has a genetically disorder and that we would not be able to have a child of our own. Through much prayer and tears, we felt the Lord telling us to be still and he wanted us to adopt. We have proceeded to that end and have also continued to follow His call in the ministry to the deaf of Mexico. Seeing that we live in Mexico it would be the most logical place for us to adopt from here, however Mexico has closed their international adoptions until a central system can be organized (years). We did not give up but looked for another country. At first we thought Haiti and was leaning that way until we had to change agencies. The new agency not only did Haiti but many other countries and we started asking questions. After said and done we are back at stage one and adopting from Peru. One of the reason we switch countries is that we feel the Lord leading us to adopt a deaf child. After talking to the people of Carolina adoptions we discovered with Haiti a deaf child would not be an option while with Peru it was an option we had. After much prayer we are proceeding with the adoption. We will update as time goes and things proceed. We are needing 11000 for the first stage of adoption plus a lot of work. Please pray for this money to come in and if you feel the Lord leading to pray for us or ask any question or help in any way please email us.