Once again, I have been a slacker as far as the blog is conernced...but I have been working on our dossier, and it's almost done! As mentioned in the last blog post, we were given the go-ahead to start working on our dossier paperwork right after we had filed for our U.S. Immigration approval. So the paper chase began in early December! As we were furiously collecting documents to go into the dossier, we received notification that we had a fingerprinting appointment scheduled for Jan. 2 in Charlotte with the immigration department. After our fingerprinting appointment, we waited (yes, again!) to hear back for final approval. And as of yesterday, we are officially approved!!!!! And with the exception of a few loose ends, we are ready to send our dossier off within the next few days!!!! Next, out dossier will go to our agency for final inspection, and they will then send it to Uganda! Please be praying for this step....we are praying that all our paperwork is done properly with no errors or discrepancies. If our agency finds any errors, we will have to redo those portions of the dossier, and that will delay its arrival in Uganda.
Once the dossier is complete, I feel like I have done what I need to do, and we wait on God's perfect timing for our baby. From this point, we will be waiting for a referral, which is when we are matched with a child! I am so so so so so excited!!!
Our pastor has been doing a sermon series entitled More*, which comes from the verses in Ephesians 3:
20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
He challenged us at the beginning of this new year to expect more and be open to all the abundantly awesome things that God wants to do in our lives. I love these verses because I see how very true they are in my own life. Sometimes I expect little things when God has SO MUCH MORE in store then I could ever ask or imagine. I'm praying that this year God unleashes so much more than I could ask or imagine in our lives and in our family!
