Hi everyone..this is Liz!! I hope everyone had a blessed holiday!

Well...we wanted to share with everyone that we have filled out paperwork for special needs adoption. I had a lot of misconceptions about special needs. When I researched it, I realized they were not true. The big one is that I read that if you put in for special needs then you were pulled out of non special needs. AHH told me you do not make a complete switch until you choose a child. That has helped broaden our options!

Our family adovate emailed us last week and said China still was not giving them any answers on what referral group we are with. In fact, they told them not to ask again. I think they got up on the wrong side of the bed! :)

Please pray for the Steven Curtis Chapman family. My heart has been hurting for them with the loss of their daughter. Martin and I received a grant from their assistance program, Shaohannah's Hope, for our adoption. We are very thankful for their ministry and their love for orphans. The link is on our blog.

Liz went today a bought us a new kitchen table. She has wanted one for a long time. We moved the old one out and they are to deliver the new one tomorrow morning. It is fun getting new stuff.
We don't have any new news about our adoption but we have wonderful news about our friends. China has found their LOAs and everything is back on track for them. That is wonderful. Prayer does work. Continue to pray for us.

I am sorry that we have not posted for so long. We have been told that we are just to wait and see. Our agency has been in touch with China and they told us that we may be matched in the next few months.
One thing that has been on my mind over the last few days is how God works. I should say "when God works." God deserves all the glory. When all things seem grim and impossible, it is bright and possible for God. I think that we need to get out of the way and let God do His thing. In Matthew 6, God tells us not to worry. So far, I have not been very dependent upon God. We are going to pray and wait upon God.
Our friends that received their referal is having trouble and need your prayers. Their LOAs (Letter of Acceptance) has been lost. The mail went to the wrong place or something and now China in not happy. They are asking for letters of apology. They may be delayed months now in receiving new LOAs and their travel papers. You can check out their link from our blog under adopting friends and check out their journal.

Hello All! We don't have the best news to report. We had AHH to send us all the emails that they got from China. With that being said, the news is not very good. In looking at them, we have came the conclusion that we came out of the review room three months later than the other people in our group. We will be matched with whatever group we were with when we came out. We do not know with what LIDs we are with so we don't know how much longer we will have to wait. According to RQ information, we are probably in the Feb.06 to Mar.06 LIDs. That is who came out of review in Feb. 07.
Like I said, not the best news to report. We do know one thing. God is in control and He can change outcomes. So please pray, pray, pray.

Our agency could not find out any more information today. The CCAA would not say with what batch we have been put with. It almost feels like a step back from yesterday. Medication may be needed before we get through this.
We have talked to someone elso today and they say that this is just like what the CCAA does. They will not be pinned into giving anymore information. We did get the information that we would be in the next LIDs. Our agency will keep us updated weekly. They do not want to get them mad by checking daily.
It has already been 6 days since the last batch. June will soon be here and we can have hope. What do we do if we do not get a referral in June? We don't know. Continue to pray for us.

We did get some news today. Our agency has been in touch with China and they told us we would be in the next LIDs. They are not sure if we will be in the next referrals that are issued or the next ones that our agency has logged in. They were going to clarify the information tonight. The next LIDs that our agency has is around the 24 of January. I am really glad that we actually have a dossier there. I had some fear that it was lost or discarded.
Our agency did try to get them to issue our referral now but that did not happen. We will get the information tomorrow on what our wait may be. We have waited 28 months. All I can say is hurry home my daughter.
Please continue to pray for us.

We have no news to report yet. We have talked with our agency today and they are going to get in touch with CCAA tonight and then send us an email with whatever they find out, but nothing yet. They said that they could not reach anyone this morning. I guess since it was 12 hours ahead of us and it was in the middle of the night. So we are just waiting.
Our agency has frustrated us with this. We were told that they would be on our side this morning and we had to try all day to talk to them and then all they said was they will try tonight. So we are checking email and rechecking our email. Will we hear tonight? I hope so.
Continue to pray for us.