Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:55 AM Prayer Request

Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:55 AM

As many of you know, this past year has been extremely hard with very sick kids, hospitalizations, and open heart surgery (and more to come). The adoption of our two boys Joseph and Joshua has taken a long time. The state is dragging it’s heals again. As soon as we were done with all our paperwork, they asked for more. We finished our fingerprints, and they “forgot” to notify us of a clearance so we had to redo and repay for them. We submitted that too. We asked for a waiver of the adoption fee because of the many open heart surgeries that Joseph will need, and the next one is not too far off. The original answer to our request for a waiver was no, and then they said they were reconsidering our request. We expect an answer on Monday, and it is not looking good.

Please pray for all the departments, supervisors, social workers and people involved in making the decision for God to open their hearts and grant us a miracle to waive or significantly reduce the just under 3K fee and finalize this adoption. With the current economy, even very reasonable requests like ours are being denied. These boys deserve closure and permanency and not this limbo the state has them in. The extension the state social worker asked for expires on Monday the 26th as well, and we know they haven’t even looked at all our paperwork as of Thursday the 22nd.

Please join us in prayer for finalization of this adoption and the waiver of the fee to be approved. These funds would be much better spent on Joseph’s next heart surgery than the states pockets.

Thank you and God bless - -
Jennifer Richardson