We signed our Seeking Confirmation Letter today, it is sealed up and on it's way back to China! Praise the Lord! We were able to list Jacob's name as it will appear on all the paperwork and his Chinese Birth Certificate: Jacob Josia GuoShi Almond. We should get our Travel Approval back in about a month. We are so excited!!
Blessings,
Ken, Trish, Ellie, & Jacob
ALMOND FAMILY ADOPTION... Our Second Adoption Journey...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Still waiting, and waiting, and waiting.......
Sorry I haven't posted much in the past few weeks, but there hasn't been a whole lot to report on. We received our Pre-Approval to adopt Jacob almost six weeks ago now and still have not received our Seeking Confirmation Letter (SCL) from the CCCA. We have to sign that and return it to China before we can move forward. We know that everything is in God's control and it will come about in His timing. However, it has been difficult and a struggle not to become discouraged. But, just because we haven't gotten our SCL yet doesn't mean God hasn't been working and we have much to praise Him about!
We believe we now have or nearly have all the rest of the funds we need for travel and everything else. Praise Him! We also were able to share what God has done for us and our adoption story with our church family and friends last Monday evening. It was such a blessing for us to be able to share how much God as provided for us and shepherded us through not only this adoption journey, but Ellie's as well. We were also able to share our passion for adoption and orphan care. We hope this was an encouragement and a blessing to those who were there as well. We were asked to share our prayer requests for Jacob's adoption. We of course asked that God would be preparing Jacob's heart for coming into our family, and ours as well, so that it would be a smooth transition for him. We also asked prayer for the rest of the paperwork that was still to come, especially that we would hear something soon about our SCL. We have been praying that there weren't any issues, and that nothing was wrong.
Praise God for another answered prayer! Tina from our adoption agency called us the next day to let us know that they had determined what had happened. She had gone to an obscure part of the CCCA's private website for adoption agencies and found that they had rejected our adoption request because there was a typo for our dossier log in date. It had been listed as 2007 instead of 2009 and somehow our agency did not get contacted about the error. This is why we hadn't received our SCL. So if she hadn't gone to this part of the website she hardly ever goes to, we would have not known about the error till much later. We of course believe this was answered prayer and divine intervention, praise God! Tina called us back on Friday to let us know that she had sent the correction to the CCCA and they had acknowledged receiving it and working to process our SCL now. We should receive our SCL the first part of next week sometime. Tina said she would check with them again if we hadn't received it by Wednesday of next week. If we can get it by then, we should still receive our travel approval by the end of July and travel about mid August. To God be the Glory!
Blessings!
Ken, Trish, & Ellie
We believe we now have or nearly have all the rest of the funds we need for travel and everything else. Praise Him! We also were able to share what God has done for us and our adoption story with our church family and friends last Monday evening. It was such a blessing for us to be able to share how much God as provided for us and shepherded us through not only this adoption journey, but Ellie's as well. We were also able to share our passion for adoption and orphan care. We hope this was an encouragement and a blessing to those who were there as well. We were asked to share our prayer requests for Jacob's adoption. We of course asked that God would be preparing Jacob's heart for coming into our family, and ours as well, so that it would be a smooth transition for him. We also asked prayer for the rest of the paperwork that was still to come, especially that we would hear something soon about our SCL. We have been praying that there weren't any issues, and that nothing was wrong.
Praise God for another answered prayer! Tina from our adoption agency called us the next day to let us know that they had determined what had happened. She had gone to an obscure part of the CCCA's private website for adoption agencies and found that they had rejected our adoption request because there was a typo for our dossier log in date. It had been listed as 2007 instead of 2009 and somehow our agency did not get contacted about the error. This is why we hadn't received our SCL. So if she hadn't gone to this part of the website she hardly ever goes to, we would have not known about the error till much later. We of course believe this was answered prayer and divine intervention, praise God! Tina called us back on Friday to let us know that she had sent the correction to the CCCA and they had acknowledged receiving it and working to process our SCL now. We should receive our SCL the first part of next week sometime. Tina said she would check with them again if we hadn't received it by Wednesday of next week. If we can get it by then, we should still receive our travel approval by the end of July and travel about mid August. To God be the Glory!
Blessings!
Ken, Trish, & Ellie
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