Last night I listened to a broadcast of Focus on the Family. The speaker was Kay Warren and she shared about her visits to foreign countries and orphanages. In the world today there are over 147 million orphans. What are we going to do about this? It is easy to sit in our comfotable homes and turn a blind eye to the problem. It is like we don't even want to address it. Recently Jim and I have become more aware, or even more disturbed knowing that there are millions of children out there who don't have parents, no one to love them, no one to feed them, no one to get them medical care. Just listening to her talk encouraged and challenged me again. I don't ever want to live so comfortable that I don't see the faces of these children. She challenged at the end of her talk, what will we as believers do? What will churches in America do? How can we make these children visible? This is our heart, we want to love, we want to see, we want to make a difference. Thanks for letting me write and express how God is changing our hearts.

Today in the mail we received what we believe is Jim's correct birth certificate. We are really hoping that the third time is a charm. :) Now just waiting on our referral letters, you know who you are!!! We should have the rest of our paperwork done by the end of next week to be mailed to Bethany for the final review. Adoption is a funny process of hurry up and get this paper finished and then wait. We are trying to be patient and enjoy every step of the process.