After much prayer and counsel, we have decided to pursue adoption from Uganda. For about ten years, we have been financially supporting Good Shepherd's Fold, a large orphanage in East Africa. Very good friends of ours, Jimmy and Gayla Renslow, have adopted two little sweet peas from there and are involved now in helping other families to do the same. We have applied to GSF, and we began our second home study on Friday, January 13.
We are very thankful for all we have learned working with Bethany Christian Services, but our contract with them has ended, and we have come to the conclusion that we should go in a different direction. The need is great in Uganda, which has over 2,000,000 orphans due to warfare and the AIDS epidemic.
Please pray as we transition, educate ourselves on transracial adoption, and make big decisions. Here's a link to a short video about Good Shepherd's Fold. Click on the third blue link.
