Foster Care Update

Forgot to drop a note on the progress of getting licensed for foster care....

We are very close now.

The PRIDE classes were completed weeks ago and so was the mound of paperwork, physicals, and fingerprinting. We met with Joyce, our licensing worker at the agency, last Wednesday. Spent a few hours talking about a variety of topics (from our childhoods to how we handle conflict). She will come and check out the house a week from Wednesday to make sure we meet the requirements set by DCFS. Then all that is left is for her to write a report and submit it to the board of the agency we are going thru. (We are going thru ECFA--which is a Christian agency who works with families to assure they are recommending good Christian homes. They are VERY through. I would HIGHLY recommend them! They have been wonderful!) So I am anticipating we will likely be licensed by the end of the summer. Then the real adventure begins! We will see what challenges God puts before us in this new endeavor! Please pray for us! We have gotten all "kinds of advice" from those in our lives. Some we have listened to and some ....well, discarded. Kirk and I know we are "taking a risk", but feel like we have and are doing all we can to prepare ourselves and our family for this calling on our family. We are very excited about what God can and will do thru this! Stay tuned ......