Aloha and Happy New Year!
We can't believe it's been a year since God placed adoption in our hearts.  
We hosted the two siblings in July 2014 and it was an amazing time.  With any change in the family dynamics, there will be some adjustments that everyone has to go through.  Blending children from two separate families was a struggle in the beginning but during week 4, we became a family.   It wasn't without a lot of love, patience, mercy, grace and most importantly, help from God that we were becoming a family.  After hosting the two siblings, there was a lot of ups and downs of whether we would be able to move forward to adopt them.  There was a lot of praying and diving into God's word for confirmation and guidance.  Long story short, we are with a new agency and we are able to move forward with adopting the two siblings. Praise God that He kept this door open and that we would be able to have an opportunity to love on these two and bring them home to join our family!  Sadly, we did take a loss from moving to another agency, but we believe it was what was best for our family.  We were not being represented well by the old agency.  The loss in funds is a huge blow, but we have faith that God will continue to provide for what He has placed in our hearts.   Right now, because we switched agencies, we have to start from scratch and pay the initial fees all over again even though we have a completed home study that was approved from USCIS and our dossier is complete.  The great thing is that we have faith that God will show up and release the funds for our adoption.  We don't know how, but we do believe God will finish what He started in our hearts, to adopt:)  Please join us in prayer that we are able to raise $10,000 towards our adoption costs of 35 to 40K. Some ask why are we adopting when we don't have the money to... God called us to adopt and we have all been adopted by God to His Kingdom.  What God has called us to do, He will provide:)