12. The Letter is OUT!

I did not become a lawyer for a reason.

However, I am finding myself reading laws left and right in an attempt to protect ourselves and possibly our future child from a legal nightmare.  There are only two adoption agencies that I know of willing to work with us to do a home study and that is one of the many things we need to make a private adoption legal by U.S. standards. Tomorrow night, I have a Skype meeting with one of them, the director of Small World adoption.  http://smallworldadoption.com/  I am hoping that he can help clear up some of the legal jargon for me.

On Wednesday I have a meeting with Pastor Nelson Chapman of Songtan Central Baptist Church.  He and his wife are in the process of finalizing two independent Korean adoptions so he should have some good wisdom to share.

Now the even bigger news....

Tonight I saw M**** and her husband at bible study.  M**** gave me copies of our letter to a birth mother translated into Korean in a neat little folder.  She said she has been handing them out to all of her contacts but that these ones were for me.  (So excited....I now want to get one framed!) Mr. Joe then explained that he emailed our letter out to over 400 leaders around Korea.  Yes, you read that correctly, 400! So we may adopt a dozen kids now, LOL. He can see when someone has read his email so he is keeping tabs on who has seen it.  The largest church in the world is based in Seoul and the pastor of that church read our letter (the church has over 1 million members)! Check it out here http://english.fgtv.com/

 

I asked Mr. Joe how he thinks the Korean community will react to our letter.  He said that when they read it they will recognize a beautiful mind.  How precious is that?  Thanks Mr. Joe.

So when I titled this post "The Letter is OUT!"... I meant it.  We have no idea how far it has spread or to whom it has reached but it is exciting to think that a future baby Chapman could be a little closer than we realize. We are trying to praise God in all of these little (and BIG) connections that are hopefully going to grow our family.

Thanks for following our journey,
Ashley (and Patrick)