Another Vickerman's China Adoption Story: LOA!!!

The Beginning of this Journey...

The Lord began this journey towards our second adoption about 1 year ago. He put on our hearts to sponsor Kay - at Harmony Outreach and we did. When i first saw her, i fell in love with her and prayed for her to join our family. It wasn't until May 2008 that the Lord began to use her to open our hearts to adoption again. That was when we had John Bentley from Harmony Outreach (her foster program) staying with us and he told us that Kay was ready to be adopted internationally. We prayed about her and began the adoption process again. Unfortunately, it wasn't in God's plan for her to join our family but He did use her to open our hearts up to adoption again and we are excited to see where He takes us. We are Trusting in Him.

The Lord has brought Maylynn into our lives and hearts on Nov. 21st (that is when we received her referral). We are excited to see Him bring her home to us. Please pray for the rest of our journey. We can't wait to bring Maylynn home...

Saturday, May 23, 2009

LOA!!!

We are so happy that after 80 long days of waiting that we finally received word that we have received our LOA (Letter of Acceptance) from China. I have to admit the past 30 days have been hard but the past 10 days have been extremely hard. I know it is God's timing and i need to be okay with that - this is a hard patience enduring process. I thought that i had learned about patience and perserverance enough with Hayleigh's process but i guess the Lord knew that i had more to learn...

What now??? Well, now we sign our LOA and return that back to our agency. Our agency then sends our LOA and some additional paperwork to the Dept. of State to get their approval (another LOA from them). They then send (cable) their approval to the Chinese Consulate who then sends approval (or something) to our agency. Then we wait for our Travel Approval from China - then we can make our Consulate Appt. and make reservations! So, i'm not sure of timing for all of this. We are praying that God's timing will be that we are in China the last 2 weeks of July... I'm not too sure that's going to be possible - but "all things are possible with God."