Agency Trip Day 8: Last Day In Uganda

The trip is almost over! Our agency has worked hard the last week and we are so grateful for their concern. We haven't heard anything yet from them and don't expect to hear until the middle of the month. Obviously our hope, and the hope of our agency, is to be able to continue adoptions and place kids in families. We have worked hard this week to finish paperwork, physicals and reading for our home study. We are praying this is just a small hiccup and that our adoption will continue!

Today we are praying our adoption will continue ethically.

Pray for the orphans who are in orphanages who are waiting for families, pray their forever families can adopt them soon!

Pray for all the families who are anxiously waiting to hear more from our agency. Pray as we, and they, prepare their hearts to welcome a child into their home.

Pray our agency found a way for us to continue our adoption while honoring the people, culture and laws of Uganda

As this week has gone on, I've become more and more anxious to hear news from our agency. Seems like a forever waiting game for what is next but that's how adoptions work! But, at the same time, we have had a peace knowing we trust our agency, we trust that God called us to adopt AT THIS TIME and we trust that God called us to adopt from UGANDA!! This is our Father's World!! Pray this is just a small hiccup and not the end or pause to our adoption. We want to bring our child/children home and we want to do it asap! We have been so blessed to know we and our child/children are covered in prayer this week. Thank you for tracking with us, we will still post daily prayer requests until after our agency is home!

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