Verners

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Do you think he likes it??

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Well, it’s almost unbelievable that it’s been 5 years since God gave us our precious little Luke. We had a wonderful time yesterday with friends and family. Thanks to all of you who spent time here. You are such a blessing to us.

It was a fun party with great food and lot’s to do. We had a jumper, a Darth Vader piñata, played stick the control panel on Darth Vader, drank “Jedi punch”, ate “Yoda Nuggets”, played Star Wars musical chairs, and even had a surprise visit from Darth Vader himself which freaked some of the kids out. Dad – I mean Darth is recovering from light saber fighting.

Well we’ve been holding out on a post like this for quite some time hoping that we would have good news to report instead.  However, it is becoming clear that we are going to be waiting longer than originally anticipated.  We are not exceedingly discouraged, though, because God’s timing seems to always be best.

The current wait time is 18-19 months from “log in date”.  Our log in is November, 2006.  So, on the current run rate we would receive a referral for Faith on or around summer of 2008.  The real truth is that if the slow down continues, the wait could (and probably will) increase to 24 months.  No one seems to think the wait will go higher than that at this point.  Under those circumstances, our referral would not come until early 2009.  Crazy huh!!!

Anyway, we would certainly appreciate your prayers.  Please pray that:

1.    God’s will be done in all of this
2.    For a speedup
3.    For financial provision.  (The increased wait times will increase our adoption costs by 2-4 thousand dollars and will require us to redo most of our paperwork at least once.)
4.    Pray that we would not get discouraged when we have to redo all of our paperwork
5.    Continued patience and faith

Thanks you all so much.  Grace and Peace to each of you,

The Verners