Support

If you have ever tried to do anything in life you know that having support is key.
For Nicole and I having support has been and will continue to be key for all areas of our life.

Take for example this blog.

What you see here is a combination of my trying a bunch of different things and getting very little result and having the support of a friend who knew how to get the most out of the tool you now see being used.

Support is the Key.

Nicole and I have a real passion to do something more then we have been doing in regard to the orphan crisis we see around us.

First we have a passion to raise awareness of the needs of orphans in our local church, our local community and on a more global scale. 

Second, we also have a passion to adopt and foster lots of kids.

These two passions have need of one common thing, support.

As far as the orphan ministry goes, we have not had the effortless road we thought would be before us when we started.

We have been putting a proposal together for our church leaders. 

That is a tough task on its own and I am less involved in that then my wife Nicole. 

She has a real gift for that sort of thing. 

I have the task of blogging our journey, which if you have been following us you might think we quite because of the lack of communication going on. 

I have to confess that the lack of seeming motion on the front of getting this ministry up and public in our church for last year has caused me to feel frustrated and disappointed. 

I could hear my friend Kristjen in my head saying "blog it" so I am.

Nicole and I have been talking about our passion, many people are excited, and we have had a few conversations with people who wanted more info as to what we are doing. 

We have even had people who wanted info never show up to a meeting we set up. This all leads to feelings of disappointment if you let it, and I did. 

Now for the how.

How do I keep a passion for this ministry in my heart when things are not going the way I expected?

Support.
As I said support is the key.

Our second passion is adoption and fostering. 

I want to focus on that for a moment. Between the last blog and this one God has richly blessed Nicole and I. In May 2012 we will be having our second child. 

This is a blessing for us I am very happy to receive.
However, this puts a hold on the adopting.
(There are stipulations as to the amount of time that must pass before we are allowed to begin the process.)

That is a major frustration.

It’s hard to explain. That I am so happy to be having another baby yet my heart aches for the children that are waiting for us and knowing that I have to wait to know them is hard for me.

I know that might sound weird and as if I don’t want the gift this new child is, that’s not it, I have just fallen in love with the children waiting for a family that will be in my family.

Again Support is Key.

We have recently joined an adoption support group it is amazing to be in a room with people who share the passion that we have.

I think that the passion that we have to adopt could be cooled if we did not intentionally put ourselves in a group that has so much passion to make a difference in the world through adopting.

I know that the next 12 months before we can start the adoption process will be hard for us but we have support so it’s not as hard.

I love our group we have some who have adopted some who want to internationally, some locally. Some have had children biologically for others the children they have or will adopt will be their first children.

Its a great cross section group. What ties us together is the passion for the challenge to make a difference in the life of an orphan.

It’s not a coincidence that the group leaders are a couple that have started a successful orphan ministry. I know that God has placed us in this support group for a reason.

I know that as we continue to make strides in adopting and in our orphan ministry that having the support of our group and friends.

Nicole and I are blessed because we have support to help us keep the passion of adoption alive in our hearts and in the forefront even though we are limited in how we can move forward we know that this is the road that we are needing to walk down and we are not doing it alone

Thank you Daniel and Amanda, for your support in starting this group and your passion to adopt.

Thank you Kristjen and Tamara, for you support with getting this blog up and for the insight into how to navigate getting our proposal done.