BULGARIA IT IS!!!!!

After months of prayer, we have made the decision to go ahead in our adoption with Bulgaria. It is a Hague accredited country and has many children available. Our home study that took place in April can now be "signed off on" and we can move on to the next step which is U.S. C.I.S. (U.S. Customs and Immigration services). After that is the dossier process which will then match us up with a little one. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

photo from: http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Bulgaria.html

Some prayer requests as we enter into the next phase:

1. That things will start moving along quickly. Our desire is still to have a child in our arms or the referral for the child by December 31st of 2011.

2. After the home study is officially finalized, we'll need to pay $6,000 to the adoption agency. (Plus, we also need to buy Justins round trip ticket home for furlough in October). So, we definitely have some financial needs. We need $8,500 total to cover both. If you would like to help us reach this goal, please click on the donation link on the left and choose jones2ethne in the drop down box.

3. Applying for grants. We'll also soon start applying for grants to cover the remainder of the adoption. Please pray that those will come in without hesitation or question.

Thanks for sticking with us and being a listening ear. We're excited!!!!
Love you all,
Justin and Shelli