HE MAKES HIS LIFE MANIFEST IN US

Jesus gave us the power of the Holy Spirit so that His life would become manifest in us. This life is evidence that Jesus is not dead but alive and still ministiring in the world today.

No confidence in the flesh

8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. phillipans 3:8-11

Our family has grown by 3

Well as most of you know we now have three additions to our family. What a change it has brought to our home. We have 2 girls ages 3&5 and a boy that will soon be 2. They keep us on our toes but we couldn't be happier with our decision. In the 3 weeks that they have been with us we have seen such a change in them (and us). The way God moves is amazing.

First call...ahhh

We got our first call today from DHS. this is about how it went......
~Hello this is (unsure) from (not sure what she said) can I speak to Andy or Amanda
~This is Amanda
~We were wondering if you had room for a sibling placement (lights finally came on) 4 & 6 year old boys.
~ummmm (Long Pause) (probably awkwardly long Pause) Well......probably not
~OK thanks
end of call

I felt so clueless. I didn't know what to ask her. After this call was over I found a website that has a list of questions to ask when you get this call. I guess next time I will be more prepared.
Well....I am probably not ready for a 4 AND 6 year old boys. I just trust God knew what he was doing through that phone call.

Approved!!!!

I got a call about an hour ago.........WE ARE A LICENSED FOSTER CARE HOME!!!!

Just thought I would let all of you know

The wheels are turning Again!!!!

Well...Our support worker should be turning in all of our paperwork today to DHS. What a stressful couple of weeks. For those of you who don't know I will fill you in. A couple of weeks ago our support worker told us that we HAD to be a registered daycare before we could be licensed as a foster home. We had an idea about this and I sent the paper work in in March. Well, I called the ladies down at the daycare registration office and they told me"yes we have had your paperwork since March but we haven't gotten your background check in yet" She told me that she would resubmit it and we would have to go from there. (Usually a background check takes no more than 2 weeks) Our support worker told us that we could not move forward until this was done, but we only had until June 1st or we would have to take the whole class over again. So we have been doing a lot of praying and calling the registration office . Well after much anticipation we got our daycare registration on Thursday. PRAISE GOD!!!!!
So that is where we are now. DHS should have it approved by June 1st. After that we should have a child within 2-4 weeks. We are so excited to bring this child into our home. We know that God has amazing timing and he had this planned all along!

God as our Treasure

The man who has God for his treasure has all things in One. Many ordinary treasures may be denied him, or if he is allowed to have them, the enjoyment of them will be so tempered that they will never be necessary to his happiness. Or if he must see them go, one after one, he will scarcely feel a sense of loss, for having the Source of all things he has in One all satisfaction, all pleasure, all delight. Whatever he may lose he has actually lost nothing, for he now has it all in One, and he has it purely, legitimately and forever.
The pursuit of God A.W. Tozer