January 19 2005 - WOW! God's FAST! When you pray for rain...

When you pray for rain, make real sure you bring an umbrella. We have prayed for a long time that, when our dossier arrived in the Kazakhstan embassy in New York, whoever was in charge of processing our adoption application would work quickly and efficiently. As usual, but always to our amazement, God answered that prayer in a BIG way. What was supposed to take "4-6 weeks" took less than two weeks. Kazakhstan has officially approved our request to adopt two children. What does that mean? Good question. It means that "the call" is now imminent. Anytime within the next two weeks to two months we will be receiving a phone call from our adoption agency telling us that we have received our official adoption invitation from Kazakhstan, so we can immediately go and get our travel visas. At or about that same time, we will also receive the "picture and paragraph" for our two children. So, as we move forward, we ask that God give us patience and preparedness for this amazing adventure! There is much to do.