Adoption

You all know that one of my passions is adoption. Since the start of the Adoption Ministry at FBC is 2006, I have worked hard to plan seminars, schedule speakers, hold monthly meetings, etc. Since then, there have been 12 children adopted at the church, which is wonderful! At the beginning of this year, I felt like I needed to focus my attention and effort on the adoption ministry, so I started thinking about planning seminars and events. Nothing seemed to be working out and so I decided to pray about it (probably should have done that first). I keep a list of families who I think would be great families to adopt. I pray that if it is God's will, that he would plant the seed for adoption in their heart. It must be God's timing because in the past month:
-Our speaker on international adoption said she could come on June 6th
- FBC then told me that they were going to highlight the adoption ministry in their quarterly newsletter.
- They chose an adoptive family at church that just adopted 2 children from the foster care
system for their testimony section. (After 4 others didn't work out)
- They didn't have a picture for the quarterly cover so they used the one of the adoption ministry.
- 3 adoptive families dedicated their children on Mother's Day
- 1 more is being dedicated on Father's Day.
-Our Sunday school class needed a teacher for the month of June and said we could hold all
adoption events in the class.
- I have had calls from other churches and people coming out of the woodwork with people
interested in adoption.
-I didn't have a speaker for the last Sunday in June, and the social worker for a family in our
church came to our garage sale and asked if she could come and speak.
- We had 30+ people attend our adoption panel last Sunday.
-we held a garage sale and raised over $900 for the adoption ministry to help families with
adoption costs.
-Over 15 couples from fbc are considering adoption
-6 families have already contacted agencies and have started the process to either do foster care
or adopt.

God gave me a scripture about a month ago that said,"Now then, stand still and see this great thing the LORD is about to do before your eyes!" 1 Samuel 12:16

I thought it had to do with Diane (I'll do a Diane update soon), and it probably does, but I think his plans are bigger that I could even imagine! This is totally a God Story because I really didn't plan any of this!! God orchestrated it all. I am learning to wait on him and his timing. It is so much easier and he can produce more results than I could ever do on my own!

**If you know anyone that you would like added to my prayer list (including your own family) let me know!