It's been a great Labor Day Weekend. We've definitely labored around the house all weekend. Our first visit from the social worker is scheduled for September 18th. Our house is always "liveable clean" just not "visitor clean"! So we have spent several hours already trying to make the house look like June Cleaver lives here. Our biggest project was cleaning out the office room which will soon be the bedroom for the newest member of our family. I can't wait until we know if it is a girl or boy so that we can start decorating the room for him or her.
I know that we are still very early in the process and soon I will be overwhelmed by the paperwork so for now I have been reflecting on the "wonder ifs?" of the unknown journey. I wonder if the child God has for us is a boy or girl? I wonder what age he/she will be? I wonder how long we will have to wait? I wonder how soon we will be making our first visit to Haiti? I wonder how long it will take us to raise the funds for the adoption? I wonder how excited he/she will be to see us? I think you get my point as to where my mind has been lately. The one thing I don't wonder is how much God is in this journey. HE is involved 100% of it! So when my mind is off wondering I can easily reel it back in because God's plan is perfect. It doesn't matter if it is a girl or boy, how long we wait or when all of the funds are available. God has the perfect child picked out for us and HIS plan for bringing our child home is in HIS perfect timing.
A few things coming soon are David's first blog, our first fundraiser and yard sale details! Just like Lily said in a previous blog... We can't wait to see how many lives God will change through our journey and we know our lives will never be the same! It's all for HIM and HIS glory!
Not to us, O LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness. " Psalm 115:1.
In Christ's great love,
Cindy
Lily's Prayer
The Lord has provided, Jadon is Home with his Forever Family!
Lily's Prayer to be a big sister has been answered. We serve a mighty God!
Thank you to everyone who donated to bring Jadon home. You are greatly appreciated by the our Family!
Facts about Ethiopia
*The mortality rates in Ethiopia are among the highest in the world, which leads to having thousands of children orphaned and in need of loving families.
*Over 5 million children are orphaned due to poverty and the residual effects of war and drought.
*The number of orphaned children continues to increase as the diseases of poverty cause the premature deaths of parents.
*1 in 10 children die before their first birthday.
*1 in 6 die before age five. More than half of those deaths are attributed to malnutrition.
* 12% of children Lily's age in Ethiopia have jobs to support themselves and possibly are married.
These children are dying on our watch! Please prayerfully consider donating to help us rescue one of these children! Or better yet maybe God is calling you to also Adopt an orphan.
*Over 5 million children are orphaned due to poverty and the residual effects of war and drought.
*The number of orphaned children continues to increase as the diseases of poverty cause the premature deaths of parents.
*1 in 10 children die before their first birthday.
*1 in 6 die before age five. More than half of those deaths are attributed to malnutrition.
* 12% of children Lily's age in Ethiopia have jobs to support themselves and possibly are married.
These children are dying on our watch! Please prayerfully consider donating to help us rescue one of these children! Or better yet maybe God is calling you to also Adopt an orphan.
About Us
- The Scott Family
- We are a family united for one mission. That mission is to love as Christ has loved us and share his good news with everyone we can. We are Believers in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Our family was missing one of our memebers but now because of our Great Lord we have brought our son home to his Forever Family!
godforgives@bellsouth.net
Timeline
- 2007 Began praying about adoption
-Sept. 2007 attended an adoption seminar
- October 2007 Still unsure if adoption was God's plan and postponed moving forward but continued to pray for discernment
- June 2008 - Out of no where we were asked to consider adopting a little boy locally whose g-parents couldn't care for him. This quickly went no where! Continued praying for God's wisdom on what to do next.
- August 2008 Excited and ready to start the adoption procedures. Requested the pre-application to proceed with a domestic adoption.
- September 2008 After much more prayer and the overwhelming doom of the now doubled agency fees from prior year we decided to once again not move forward.
- January 2009 Began praying for Haiti as our people group in our Small Group class and still praying for another child for our family whether through natural conception or adoption.
- June 2009 Went on mission trip to Costa Rica. Learned a lot about trusting God during this experience that we can now see was part of the prepartion for this current journey we are on.
- August 2, 2009 God began to stir in our hearts about adopting again and this time we knew it was the real deal! This time was different. We knew it was not just about adopting to have another child. It is also about rescuing an orphan and giving them hope of a better future with Christ as the center. We felt God leading us to Haiti. A few weeks later through several chain of events and talking with another family adopting from Haiti we had confirmation that Haiti is where our child is waiting for us.
- August 24, 2009 Initiated the preliminary paperwork to get started from our newly chosen Agency, A Love Beyond Borders.
- September 1, 2009 Scheduled 1st Home Study visit
- September 4, 2009 Mailed in Preliminary paper work with our pre-application fee.
- September 18, 2009 1st Home Study visit was a success and we have now officially started the paperwork.
- November 11th, 2009 Mailed in Home Study paperwork. - December 5th, 2009 Second visit for home study - traveled to Chattanooga.
- Jan. 10, 2010 home study almost completed
- Jan. 12, 2010 Destructive Earthquake hits Haiti
- The remaining month of January - praying for discernment about Ethiopia if Haiti adoptions should close.
- Feb. 2, 2010 - Received official word from LBB that Haiti adoptions are closed and advised to look into a new program.
- Feb. 5, 2010 - Talked with Children's Hope International
- Feb. 9, 2010- Mailed in Application for acceptance into the Ethiopia program with CHI and $100
- Feb. 11, 2010 - Received phone call from CHI - We've been accepted
- Feb. 23, 2010 - Mailed in CHI contract $900
- April 2, 2010 - Finally received our approved Home Study
- April 3, 2010 - Mailed off our I600A to USCIS $830
- May 17, 2010 - Fingerprints and all Dossier paperwork is complete. Waiting for the I-171H approval from USCIS to send it in
- June 4, 2010 - Received our I-171H approval!
- June 7, 2010 - Had Dossier docs certified and shipped to CHI
- June 10, 2010 - Dossier headed to Washington DC
- June 18, 2010 - Officially a waiting family, we are on the list
- June 30, 2010 - We have a 3yr old son!
- August 19, 2010 - We received our court date for November 19, 2010
- November 17th, 2010 - Meetcha Date. We met our adorable little boy!
-November 19th, 2010 - Court day, Jadon officially became our son.
-January 3rd, 2011 - Gotcha day, we are all together, family of 4.
-January 8th, 2011 - Jadon came home to America!
-Sept. 2007 attended an adoption seminar
- October 2007 Still unsure if adoption was God's plan and postponed moving forward but continued to pray for discernment
- June 2008 - Out of no where we were asked to consider adopting a little boy locally whose g-parents couldn't care for him. This quickly went no where! Continued praying for God's wisdom on what to do next.
- August 2008 Excited and ready to start the adoption procedures. Requested the pre-application to proceed with a domestic adoption.
- September 2008 After much more prayer and the overwhelming doom of the now doubled agency fees from prior year we decided to once again not move forward.
- January 2009 Began praying for Haiti as our people group in our Small Group class and still praying for another child for our family whether through natural conception or adoption.
- June 2009 Went on mission trip to Costa Rica. Learned a lot about trusting God during this experience that we can now see was part of the prepartion for this current journey we are on.
- August 2, 2009 God began to stir in our hearts about adopting again and this time we knew it was the real deal! This time was different. We knew it was not just about adopting to have another child. It is also about rescuing an orphan and giving them hope of a better future with Christ as the center. We felt God leading us to Haiti. A few weeks later through several chain of events and talking with another family adopting from Haiti we had confirmation that Haiti is where our child is waiting for us.
- August 24, 2009 Initiated the preliminary paperwork to get started from our newly chosen Agency, A Love Beyond Borders.
- September 1, 2009 Scheduled 1st Home Study visit
- September 4, 2009 Mailed in Preliminary paper work with our pre-application fee.
- September 18, 2009 1st Home Study visit was a success and we have now officially started the paperwork.
- November 11th, 2009 Mailed in Home Study paperwork. - December 5th, 2009 Second visit for home study - traveled to Chattanooga.
- Jan. 10, 2010 home study almost completed
- Jan. 12, 2010 Destructive Earthquake hits Haiti
- The remaining month of January - praying for discernment about Ethiopia if Haiti adoptions should close.
- Feb. 2, 2010 - Received official word from LBB that Haiti adoptions are closed and advised to look into a new program.
- Feb. 5, 2010 - Talked with Children's Hope International
- Feb. 9, 2010- Mailed in Application for acceptance into the Ethiopia program with CHI and $100
- Feb. 11, 2010 - Received phone call from CHI - We've been accepted
- Feb. 23, 2010 - Mailed in CHI contract $900
- April 2, 2010 - Finally received our approved Home Study
- April 3, 2010 - Mailed off our I600A to USCIS $830
- May 17, 2010 - Fingerprints and all Dossier paperwork is complete. Waiting for the I-171H approval from USCIS to send it in
- June 4, 2010 - Received our I-171H approval!
- June 7, 2010 - Had Dossier docs certified and shipped to CHI
- June 10, 2010 - Dossier headed to Washington DC
- June 18, 2010 - Officially a waiting family, we are on the list
- June 30, 2010 - We have a 3yr old son!
- August 19, 2010 - We received our court date for November 19, 2010
- November 17th, 2010 - Meetcha Date. We met our adorable little boy!
-November 19th, 2010 - Court day, Jadon officially became our son.
-January 3rd, 2011 - Gotcha day, we are all together, family of 4.
-January 8th, 2011 - Jadon came home to America!
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”
James 1:22 “ Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves but do what it says.”
James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
James 1:22 “ Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves but do what it says.”
James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
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