our third and final agency!

well, we decided to move forward with domestic adoption. and let me tell you, the scouting for a new agency was intense! i wanted all the cards on the table BEFORE we got started. my sis-in-law made some reconnoissance phone calls on our behalf, and i called several people who had worked with different agencies that had similar parenting beliefs to see how things had gone for them.

we wound up working with covenant care services out of macon, georgia. after about a year of working with them now, i can honestly tell you that they have been everything that our hearts were longing for on this journey. we finally had an advocate. we finally were partnering with an agency who had similar beliefs. when i read their statement of faith, i wept. seriously. wept. it was just so rich and deep and good. i cannot recommend them highly enough.

choosing to move from international to domestic adoption involved some new choices. jon and i had to think through things that we hadn't had to before. what kind of adoption did we want to have? open, semi-open or closed? what race of a child were we open to? and were we really ready to have a baby? whew. more stuff that penetrate through layers of junk in my heart. here we go.