It will be six weeks ago tonight that Mike had a very restless night. Every time he would doze off he would see letters that appeared to be a word, but not one he recognized.....BANAU. Early Friday morning while having his devotions he decided to Google banau to see if it was a word, and if it was what it meant. Turns out it is a small village in the Parbat district of Nepal. Hmmmm, now why would he dream about a village in Nepal?
We decided that we would take a look and see if there was an adoption program over there. After googling that we saw that they had just opened their doors in October of 2008. Again interesting....hmmmm.
Psalm 16:7 (New Living Translation)
I will bless the Lord who guides me; even at night my heart instructs me.
We have known that we would adopt again, but just assumed it would be China again and we were unsure about the time we would start. We have had the discussion as to whether or not we would mark on our application boy or girl or either. While we were looking over the requirements for Nepal it stated that if you have a son and daughter you would not be qualified to adopt. If you have boys you would only be able to adopt a girl. If you have girls....you guessed it....you would have to adopt a BOY!
So we were wondering if the Lord gave him this dream to lead us to into this country for a son? It's a long but wonderful story, one I hope to share with you at some point, but after six weeks of really seeking the Lord we KNOW he is calling us to Nepal for our son Jonah! Yes we already know his name! That's another story for another day!
We are very excited to see how the Lord is going to provide and bring us through another amazing journey of adoption...this time for a SON!
9 comments:
Awesome news guys, I can't wait to hear more of the story!!!
AND I love his name, it makes me laugh though, I mean you had a name before with Noelle, and I am so sorry I just couldn't not go there!!! LOL
Love you guys, keep us posted, PLEASE??
AHHHH!!! Praise God!! We need to have another phone conversation!!!
Wonderful news! I look forward to following another adoption journey for your family!
Ok, first Amy's dream...then your dream...I had an amazing dream this week...love how God is speaking!
Congrats on this new journey! Can't wait to see how God will guide you through it! I didn't know Nepal was open to adoption either! Are you going through AWAA again?
So excited for your family!!!!
Thanks so much for sharing your story! I love it when God speaks in ways only he can. I'm excited to learn how the process works in Nepal...you never know where He'll lead!
Congratulations!!!!
We will be praying for you guys and can't wait to follow your next journey! Congratulations!
Congratulations!!!!! A son! And I LOVE the name Jonah. Please post details of your paperchase and all that you have to do for a Nepal adoption. I would love to know how it works.
Pam
Saw your link on Carla's blog and when I visited I realized I had followed your journey last year to China. I have a good friend who has a daughter from China and is paperchasing for a son in Nepal. We would LOVE to go there but have both boys and girls.....Can't wait to follow THIS journey!
Came over from the Sal.'s blog! CONGRATULATIONS!!! We are with AWAA and followed your journey to Noelle. We have been home with our Li'l Miss since Oct. 08. Oh, and I LOVE the name. My Jonah is 10 now!!!
What an amazing testimony and thank you for sharing the Scripture too!
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