Headed Home from Tulsa

These last three days at 'Adoption Camp' has been overwhelming. Here we are, in Tulsa, we have no job, we are relying on friends to take care of our birth children, taking phone interviews for jobs, trying to set up an LLC (talking to a lawyer (Well, Luke Korkowski anyway) and a CPA(She might actually be reputable)), setting up in person interviews for next week back in Denver, learning absolute heart breaking stories of birth mothers and adopted mothers, being convicted by Francis Chan, Crazy Love, and growing in my relationship with Christ and my wife.

Like I said, overwhelming.

But I have an incredible peace, maybe more than ever, that all that we have been through to this point in our lives was preparing us for this phase. So many Christians often feel like they are walking on God's path, but they are on the edge of the 'light'. They are 'doing it' but they know they are holding something back, or going begrudgingly, but that is not where we are.

We are in the middle of the path God has set out for us. I am sure I would not be able to handle moving forward with this without His hand on us. I have full confidence that I will find a job, and that the money will be 'enough'. I have full confidence that God is going to come through in amazing ways and that my happiness does not matter, but my Holiness does. I am sold out for the lives and souls of children. I want to protect and grow them. I want them to know Jesus Christ personally. And I want to be a warrior for God who he trusts to lead his children.

I do not think we will only adopt one. Two? More? I don't know. I do know the Excursion will hold 4 more. But God will show the way. I don't know how we will pay or how we will have enough energy. All I have is the faith that this is what God has been equipping us to do, we will follow him, and it will work out.

Wanna come with us? http://www.crisispregnancyoutreach.org

P.S. I have a job interview in downtown Denver on Monday. Please pray I get the job!!!!

Tulsa, November 20,2009

So much has happened since our last blog I don't know where to start. We are currently in Tulsa, Oklahoma attending our last adoption training through Crisis Pregnancy Outreach. We are staying with an incredible family named the Jacobsons.



They have three birth children and 4 adopted children. They are living proof that God provides when you follow his lead and their example has touched us deeply. Steve and Kelly are mom and dad and their kids are Madeline (Cat), Aaron, Elaina, Jewel, Isaac, Nate, and Zach.



The class is going well and I am blown-away by this ministry. It is about mothers in crisis and they happen to match expecting mothers who cannot keep their children with families who would like to adopt. The services they offer are amazing and I really feel that they are the hands and feet of Christ. I wish every town in America had a CPO!