China process and timing

This past week there were additional changes made in the adoption protocol from China. For the last several years, China has held agency partnerships with orphanages. These partnerships allowed agencies to go into the orphanage, meet the precious, waiting children, and then advocate on their behalf so that they would have a better opportunity of finding a forever family. This is important because children that may be considered “more challenging” to place, would have greater opportunity and visibility than previously. At the end of the year, this policy will also change. China will be discontinuing the agency partnerships and go back to, "shared list matching". Shared list matching is what we had when we were matched with Hadley. The adoptive family is basically given a photo or 2 (which may be months old) and a brief medical write up, as well as some info on the child. Some of the medical needs these kiddos have can look intimidating on paper. But behind each photo is a beating heart, and a child created in the image of the one true God. They all share one thing in common, they are all waiting to be chosen and they all deserve to be chosen.  Please pray that the Lord would raise up families to GO>>> to China, to fill in the gap that’s been created by these new rules. That He would raise up families to bring home children that are fatherless from wherever He calls. 

Psalm 10:14- But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

On the adoption front for our family, I recently reached out to our agency to get a pulse on timing. Where I had secretly hoped we’d be matched soon, it sounds like realistically it could be up to 6 months. I say that loosely because I know that ultimately, God is in charge of the matching.  Even though visibly our matching process may be held by human hands...He's orchestrating all of it. So we sit eager and hopeful for whenever that day comes. 

Thank you for all the continued love and support!! 💛😘