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Changes in Plans

Our adoption of a little girl almost a year and a half ago has been a souce of much joy in our family.  It has been exciting to watch her grow, learn, laugh and play with Karis.  What a blessing from God!

The adoption has also wreaked a bit of havoc with our home ministry schedule.  We expected to take a 4 month home ministry last year, but the adoption prevented that since we had to wait for the adoption to be finalized.

Well it looks like the adoption will be finalized around April 1 of next year, and given our low support level, we were planning on about 8 months of home ministry starting next fall to get our support back up where it should be. 

But it looks like our little girl will not be able to US citizenship until 2014.  So when we travel with her to the US for home ministry, she will have to get a visitors visa just like any Italian.  IN our research, it looks unlikely that we could get anything more than a 90 day visa, so we will have to shorten our time of home ministry to 90 days, and trust that the Lord can provide for our support needs even with an abbreviated home ministry.  Plans at the moment are for a home ministry from August 1 through October 29.

And, in fact, we do trust the Lord to guide and provide as we serve Him here in Italy.  There is no doubt that the adoption and all the related changes in plans was His hand at work.  And we are sure that He will not fail to supply for us as we walk the path that He has laid out for us!