I am so glad that we do not serve a little God. One who is weak or unable to move mountains on our behalf. Just as we were getting adjusted to the idea of a long wait ahead of us in this journey to our son, God chose to move a huge mountain and shorten our time line considerably! In my last post, I acknowledged that God could choose to move mountains, but we didn't really expect Him to. Thankfully God is much bigger than my faith!
Last Thursday, we received a phone call from our family coordinator at America World. We small-talked a little, and she asked how we were doing with waiting patiently. I told her we've really been working on it, but of course it's never easy to wait. The next word out of her mouth was, "Well..." Oh, the power of that little word! She said it in a way that made it clear she had some news. (You can imagine the inflection.)
She told me that one of the regions in which our agency works in Russia has a number of infant boys in their orphanage right now. Our contact in Russia said he thinks he might be able to register one or two dossiers for families by mid-December. Because we are requesting an infant boy, and all of our paperwork is in order, our dossier might be registered in just a few weeks! So, she was calling to let me know we have one additional document we need to fill out in order to be registered. She emailed it to us, and we got it notarized and in the mail to be apostilled that same day. As soon as we get it back, we'll send it to our agency, who will then mail it on to Russia.
As a reminder of our process, we can't be matched with a specific child until our dossier gets registered in a specific region. Our paperwork has been done since May, but with so many other families waiting, we haven't been registered anywhere yet. Recently, once families have been registered in this region, they have been receiving referrals of children anywhere from two weeks to two months later. This means we could easily be traveling on the first trip to meet our son in the next several months!
Even if we aren't registered in December, it looks like we should be registered in January. We won't know more for several weeks either way. We would appreciate your prayers for a registration in December. What a great Christmas present that would be!
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oh WOW I'm so excited for you both! We will continue to pray and are thrilled about these new developments :) :) :)
We are praying that your dossier is registered this month and that you will be united with your son SOON! We continue to pray for this precious baby that God has for your family. Praise God for being bigger than our faith and for moving those mountains!! :)
So so so glad for this wonderful phone call. :) love to you.
Yipee! We will be praying for that as your Christmas gift this year. It's so cool to see how God surprises us, isn't it? Patience, right when you think you are the most patient person, sometimes God shows you that you are not. Thanks for keeping us updated!
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