Treasured Pearls: God is in Control

I am amazingly calm considering the huge speed-bump we ran over last night. When I talked to our agency contact, we both said that God just wanted something to be able to show just how BIG he is!!!

I have contacted our USCIS officer and our Senator's office (who was already working with us) and they are both on the case.

I don't believe God would bring us this far to have things fall apart at the last minute.

God is in Control!

Orphan Statistics

Inter-country adoption has decreased 59 percent from its high in 2004, due primarily to restrictions by sending countries.
81.5 million Americans have considered adoption. If just 1 in 500 of these adults adopted, every waiting child would have a permanent family.
Every year more than 23,000 children age out of foster care, leaving them without families of their own.
The average waiting child is 7.5 years old.
Last year, nearly 9,000 children were adopted internationally
Of the estimated 238,280 children who exited foster care during 2013, the median amount of time spent in care was 21.8 months.
In 2013, California and Texas were the two U.S. states with the most children in public foster care waiting for adoption.
As of 2013, an estimated 17.7 million children worldwide had lost one or both parents to AIDS. Most of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa.
The births of nearly 230 million children under age 5 worldwide (about one in three) have never been recorded, depriving them of their right to a name and nationality
http://showhope.org/9-stats-about-the-orphan-crisis/

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

God is in Control

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