Wehaa! We're working on the last stages of our adoption. The "dossier" is started. We hope to finish it by the end of July. Of all of the paperwork that we have completed, it seems to be the most complicated. It includes Phillip's passport and immigration papers as well as required information about plans for his education and ESL concerns. It must go to both the U.S. and Chinese governments for final approval.
Many of you have asked when we will be able to bring Phillip home. We can't really predict the time accurately, but it could be as early as Christmas. A friend of ours sent her dossier in April and will travel to China to get her children in the next month or so. We're trusting God's timing, but we'd love to be able to plan ahead. We'd all like to travel to China so that we can all share this experience as a family. Thanks for praying about this with us.
Some of you have been wondering about remodeling our office and powder bath to become Phillip's room and bathroom. Since Karl is currently working out of town, it has been difficult to dismantle the office and the workbench in the garage which needs to happen before we can add on. Hopefully, Kyle, Brit, and I can make progress on this project next week. When we have our yard sale on the 5th and 6th of August, there will be space in the garage to store items from the office temporarily.
I was listening to a Beth Moore CD today. She was talking about our responses to rejection and specifically mentioned adopted children. Adopted children are so vulnerable to feelings of rejection and abandonment. They struggle to proccess the emotions associated with the loss of their biological parents.
We won't be given any information on Phillip's biological family. His history is sketchy, but we believe that he was abandoned at a police station at around 7 months old when his family realized that he was paralyzed. At one point, he lived in an orphanage where he was not allowed to bring his wheelchair in the house. He crawled everywhere. We are so grateful that he was moved to Shepherd's Field by some folks from Love Without Borders in Shanghai that loved him and went to bat to find a better situation for him.
Please pray that Phillip will be resilient and that he will continue to have the hope that there is a family for him. (His orphanage has a policy to protect the orphans that postpones informing the child until the Chinese government has given travel approval.) Pray that he will be free from attachment and bonding issues.
Your prayer support is such an encouragement to us as we move forward!
Joni Croft
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