welcome!

Welcome to our blog concerning our adoption of a little girl from Ethiopia. Thank you for joining us on this journey. From this blog you can get updates on how things are progressing, find out information on Ethiopia, donate to our adoption fund or check out pictures as they arrive. Thank you for walking with us!

4.5 million orphans in Ethiopa alone.

This is our chance to join together to ensure that in Ethiopa, there is ONE LESS ORPHAN.

Monday, July 9, 2007

Time of Decision

We are going to be picking the agency we are working with over the next couple of days. There is so much to decide!! As we have begun looking at agencies we have become more and more excited at this adventure.

We are finding out some encouraging things along the way: that we will be able to adopt a very young infant girl (possibly only 6 months old...or even younger!), that the potential is that the whole process will be much shorter than we first thought (could be 7 - 12 months) and that that cost of the adoption will be approximately $10,000 less than we first thought.

We are excited to start the process and begin getting our paperwork together. In some ways it feels like stepping out onto a branch that we've been testing to make sure it was strong enough for awhile now, but we know its time to step out and take the risk!

2 comments:

JEFFTRAGEDY said...

lets talk about doing a show at the vineyard some Sunday evening to help raise money. being its in Lancaster and not Manheim i could pack a good amount of indie kids in there....make it themed for not Christians but those who believe in adoptions. lets say 100 come, at 5 bucks that $500.

The Shannons said...

that would be awesome jeff.