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Digging Out!

Hi, friends! Time for an update!

We are digging out from a ton of paperwork that we turned in last night at our second home study! As we mentioned before, four homestudy visits with our social worker are required, and we've completed half of those! Our next home study will take place on Tuesday, November 1st, or Friday, November 4th!

Most everything on our end has been completed up to this point.

  • Our background checks were done and mailed last Thursday, so our adoption agency is waiting on those. 
  • We will have treated and hopefully taken care of the environmental bacteria in our well by the end of this week. 
  • We are done with one entire book that is required we read, and have just a book and a half to go!
  • Our three hour required adoption class is this Saturday in Clark County! We thankfully do not have to drive hours away to go to an upcoming class; they had room for at the class closest to home! 
  • And the adoption agency will make contact with our references very soon!
That's really about all that is left, aside from the remaining two homestudy visits!

Once all our home studies are complete, within a week of the fourth home study, we should know if we are homestudy approved. Home study approved means that we meet the eligibility requirements in the state of Ohio and requirements of Choosing Hope, that we can provide a safe, secure and loving environment for a child.

From there, our family profile will be made. A Family Profile is a picture book that will be shared with potential birth parents that match our adoption preferences. Our Adoption Agency will present 3-6 profiles at a time, to the birth parents, and we will be notified once the birth family chooses us to be the prospective adoptive parents!

If we are chosen by a birth family, we then receive specific information on the birth parents and the baby/child (such as due date, social and medical history, gender, ect).

If we accept the match, Choosing Hope (our Adoption Agency) will prepare paperwork for us to officially accept the match and move forward with the adoption. We will then learn of more specific (estimated) expenses, in regards to legal, birth mother, and medical expenses. In the state of Ohio, we could stand to pay up to $3000.00 in birth mother expenses. Legal expenses can range from $500-$10,000. And medical fees vary.

It's a very lengthy, paperwork ridden process, but to us, it is so worth it.

Adoption is redemption.

It's costly, exhausting, expensive, and sometimes seems outrageous.

Buying back lives costs so much.

But if the Lord called us to it, He will bring us through it! We are holding onto that promise!

T-Shirt sales went great! We sold 49 shirts, and raised $475! What a blessing! Thank you to those who purchased a shirt to help fund our adoption!

A couple of upcoming events:

This Sunday, October 23rd, from 9am - ?? there will be a Bake Sale and Raffle at Shoemaker's/IGA Grocery, in South Charleston! We are so excited, and so thankful for all the hard work and effort that has been put into this!

Saturday, November 12th at 5pm, a Chili Dinner and Benefit Sing at Message of Hope Ministries in Springfield! Singing by Homebound, Jordan Ernst and Pastor Randy Nichols & family! We would love to see you there!

Thank you all for following our story, for your words of encouragement, and for your support! Words will never be enough to thank you for what you have done for us! We are blessed to have you in our lives!

Please continue to keep us in your prayers!

Love,

Kevin & Amber

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