Foster

Kristen and I had our first class for the foster care training. Kristen has wanted to be a foster parent for a long time (10 years) and she has told me about it before. A few weeks ago something happened at church that tugged at her heart. She wanted to speed up the timeline. She has a strong pull towards doing this and I am very excited about it.

Later that day we were at some friends house with our small group and another couple mentioned that they were getting ready to start the training class. This was unbelievable timing. You might say miraculous timing. They hadn't started yet and gave us the contact information for the lady organizing. The first couple calls weren't so good though. The Sunday class was full which is the only one we could attend because of our schedules and John and Teresa were supposedly in the Thursday class. So we got the information we could and told the lady to keep us on the list of the class in May. We were kind of disappointed that we weren't going to take the class with John and Teresa but accepted it as God is driving this for us.

We went to Tennessee that week (which was the first week of the class) and later that Sunday I got an email from Teresa saying they went to the Sunday class and there was a spot open for us! This was a surprising turn of events. So John and Teresa were very nice and picked up the notebook for the class for us and gave it to us and met with us to cover what they talked about Sunday.

The second week got cancelled due to 'inclement weather' and we just had the second class last week. It was a lot of information in 3 hours (feels like more school) but it is very good information.

We are very excited to be able to do this class. In Kansas you only need to take this training class once and then you can start your foster program any time later. We are hoping to do it at the beginning of next year. This will give us a few months to get our baby settled and will probably be bottle feeding her by then.

It is a big step for us but we are faithful that God will guide us and help us through this. We could use all the prayers and support that anybody can offer.