A Long Awaited Adoption
Aug 31, 2011
After yesterday’s downer post, I thought I would pick things up with some incredibly awesome news…all the way from Korea!
A friend of mine, and her husband, are in Korea right now meeting their son for the very first time!!
Their journey to Joshua has been a very long road filled with many ups and downs along the way.
Becky and John put her faith in the Lord and He is the one who brought them to the place of holding their son for the very first time less than 24 hours ago.
<p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DnO57RetRYc/Tl3ij08GpqI/AAAAAAAAAlw/7UnTW6V2OkI/s1600/1st+Meeting+with+Joshua+028.jpg"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DnO57RetRYc/Tl3ij08GpqI/AAAAAAAAAlw/7UnTW6V2OkI/s400/1st+Meeting+with+Joshua+028.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a></p> <p align="center">They met Joshua literally one year to the day that they got their referral!</p> <p align="center">Her referral post is <a href="http://redeemedchildofgod.blogspot.com/2010/09/we-have-referral.html">here</a>.</p> <p align="center">Becky and John had to wait 13 weeks to get their EP, which is basically the Korean government giving Joshua permission to leave the country to be adopted. That process is suppose to take only 4ish weeks, but it took 13 weeks!</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://redeemedchildofgod.blogspot.com/2011/08/we-have-ep.html">Here</a> is Becky’s post when they finally received their EP.</p> <p align="center">Thirteen days after receiving EP, they received their travel call! <a href="http://redeemedchildofgod.blogspot.com/2011/08/travel-call.html">Here</a> is the travel call post.</p> <p align="center">Less than a week after receiving their travel call, Becky and John were in Korea meeting Joshua for the very first time!</p> <p align="center">Becky writes about meeting Joshua yesterday <a href="http://redeemedchildofgod.blogspot.com/2011/08/first-meeting-with-joshua.html">here</a>.</p> <p align="center">Saturday they will be coming home as a family of three!</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RzNJnty_8G4/Tl3ihB9OoBI/AAAAAAAAAlo/LIbOumZS-68/s1600/1st+Meeting+with+Joshua+017.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RzNJnty_8G4/Tl3ihB9OoBI/AAAAAAAAAlo/LIbOumZS-68/s400/1st+Meeting+with+Joshua+017.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a></p> <p align="center">Becky’s faith inspires me. She has faithfully waited on the Lord to bring Joshua home and, in His time, He has turned Becky’s tears to songs of JOY. </p> <p align="center">That picture you see above is another picture of God’s faithfulness. </p> <p align="center">Words cannot express how happy I am for you, <a href="http://redeemedchildofgod.blogspot.com/">Becky</a>!</p> <p align="center">To God be the Glory!</p>
- Elaine