Meeting #2

We had our second home study meeting this past Friday between celebrating Luke's actual birthday and the Saturday spoil day that I had planned for him.
The meeting, again, went very well and was around 2 hours. This time we split up and each met with Walt for about an hour to go over our autobiographies and provide further details into our histories. Much like writing the autobiography itself, I found it to be a ton of fun with the different old memories that were brought up by the questioning.
We have been given a little more homework of things to think through and organize before our next meeting. One of his main points of concern is where we are with the funding. I was a little disappointed at his reaction because I thought we have done really well. (over half way there) But the agency is not able to place a child if we don't have the full last payment at the time of placement. Since we have very few restrictions on the child that we would be willing to take, we will most likely have a shorter wait time (Lord willing!!). His concern has increased ours, so please forgive us if you see several updates on fundraising activities in the near future.
As soon as the home study is completed we can begin to apply for grants and things. We are trusting the Lord's timing, but also trying to be proactive about getting applications as filled out as possible for submission as soon as the approved home study documents are received.

We will have our last home study meeting with Walt in 2 weeks (again on a Friday afternoon).

As always, thank you for your prayers!! They are certainly felt.

~Lynn & Luke

Home Study Process Begins

Well Team, after a couple of weeks of emailing the agency for a file update we were assigned an actual case worker! Then we waited for a couple more weeks for him to call as we weren't given any contact info yet.
Luke go the call last Thursday night and we were able to schedule our first home study meeting (the one in our home) for Monday February 8th. Yes, that's right, we had the first meeting this evening!

It went well and was not stressful at all. He gave us a little bit of homework regarding some parts of our file that he needs additional detail on, but for the most part it was a really easy meeting.
Our second meeting will consist of individual interviews with Walt and the third will be all together again. We are required to wait at least a week between each of the meetings. The last two meetings will be in a more central location as he lives 45+ minutes from our home.
After these 3 meetings he will write up our final home study and we will meet with the agency's founder, Doris, within a month of that. Then we will be available online for mothers to see as a waiting family!
It seems so close and yet so far all at the same time!

This past weekend we had a spur of the moment date. We spent the time reflecting on our childhoods and what we want to provide in the lives of our children. It was pretty surreal to have that discussion knowing that we're almost to the point where we could meet our child literally any day. I am so grateful  that I can look forward to that day with a longing that brings more than pain. Our God has been so faithful and gracious to change my heart and turn it back toward Him. I don't know that I could have enjoyed this time of waiting in this way just a couple of years ago.

Thank you all for your prayers, keep them coming!

 

 

 

 Little Lynn  

Ninja Luke