We have tons of meetings with her, as part of the home study, and homework to complete between each meeting! We are going to be pretty busy, but it is great to feel like God's plan for our lives is comming to pass. We still have lots of uncertainty and details to sort out, but we are stepping out in faith, not really knowing where God is leading us, but following anyway!
We have given an outline of the process in the list on the right, but just to fill you in, once the homestudy (all the interviews) are complete, our social worker puts all the inforation together on one form, whcih is edited lots of times, by us and other social workers. It is then sent to panel, which is where we meet a board of people made up of social workers, parents, adopted adults and medical professionals, who look over our form, talk to us and then we leave the room while they decide what recommendation to make. Can we adopt or not? How many children? From where? What age? The we return to hear their verdict! Their recomendation is passed on to the Decision maker, who gets back to us with a week, to let us know if we are approved. If they say yes, we can then collect together all the papers, and complete the legal side to send to the Sending Country. Then we wait to be matched, which can take a very long time!
The date for Panel is a big day! It seems a long way off yet, but it is nice to have a date!
We hope you have a great Christmas. Love
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