The Next Step:)

Today we got a call from our social worker, Heidi to let us know we can start our home study! All i know about the home study right now, is that it consists of 3 meetings about 3hours long. Our first meeting is on Thursday May 1st.
We want to thank everyone for the prayers and support we truly feel that God is blessing us!

Fingerprints

Today Dustin and I were able to get our fingerprints done so know we are one step closer!! We were in a hurry to get this step done because it usually takes 8 weeks to get processed. They check both federal and state for criminal background, so I am pretty sure we will be OK:)!
Today we also got a really good start on our profile book! Ali was here today, so she was a lot of help with putting the book together. She is a little more creative then I am, so that was really nice to have her help! We still have a little more to do with the book but we have plenty of time because it does not go out to the birth mom's until we are done with the home study. That is a little update on our progress.
I hope all of you have a great week!
Dustin and Ashley De Jong

Our Adoption Decision

We wanted to share with you a little bit about our decision to adopt. Also we thought this would be a nice way to keep everyone informed about our adoption process. We feel that God has been working in our hearts to adopt the last several months. We are so excited to begin the journey and we believe that God has a child chosen for us already! We just need patience do get through all of the paperwork and faith that God will provide for all the expenses that come along with the adoption. This morning in my devotion I ran across a bible verse that relates to our situation and I would like to share it with you.

Patient endurance is what you need now, so you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

Hebrews 10:36

We have decided on an adoption agency to work with which is New Horizons Adoption Agency. It is located in Blue Earth, MN. We are very excited about our decision. It took some time deciding on one, but God has led us to this one and once we have learned more about it we know that this is where he wants us to go. We have decided on a Domestic adoption which means the child will be from the United States.

We have sent in our second application so the next step is the finger prints which can take up to 8 weeks to get back. So hopefully we will be able to get those done in the next week. We will be able to start our home study as soon as all our reference letters are turned in. That is how far we are into the process, we just pray that God continues to open the doors!

We want to thank all of our family and friends who have been so supportive in the last couple months, as we have been thinking about adoption. We just ask that you continue to pray for us as we continue on this journey. As some of you know this is a very expensive process and we are going into it with faith that God will provide. If you feel that you would like to donate to our adoption, there are a couple options. You can send a check to the office in Blue Earth and write on the check that it is for Dustin and Ashley De Jong Adoption. Or you can send it to us and we will mail it there for you. The address to the office is:

New Horizons Adoption Agency, Inc.

302 S. Grove Street

PO Box 188

Blue Earth, MN 56013

Most importantly we ask for your prayers!

God Bless,

Ashley and Dustin De Jong