Rebecca was in the middle of her trip to America to celebrate her mother’s birthday and while there the plan was to mail off our pre-application. As you would expect there is much paperwork, forms and interviews to be done when navigating through these mostly unchartered waters. How many other people do you know that move to a foreign land and then while living there feel led to and choose to adopt from their homeland. The forms that she had mailed unfortunately had not gotten to their destination in Indy which caused us a bit of concern. Here it is the first formal step and already a hiccup. Soon before Rebecca left for Goshen we had sat down with each member our leadership team in the church, for them their leaders going into this process has effect on their lives as well. God’s placement is always best though; two of the couples have walked through adoption as grandparents, Dave and Jeanette with the aforementioned Elizabeth and Josiah while Tony and Gina are grandparents to Jack and Lottie.
Can you believe that just under half of our team have adoption already in the forefront of their families and minds. As you might expect our news was met with much elation, hugs, tears etc…. all full well knowing that this meant potential changes for all of us. How would we cope with the amount of travel, what about the finance, legal questions, how would the church react and move forward in our absences, what about our living situation in our grade 2 listed house on Winchester St with our dear friend Lizzie? These are a various sundry of questions, most of which are unanswerable presently. It feels as though we are not and we know we are not going through this adventure alone, there are many journeying if not literally metaphorically with us.
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