Our County Homestudy Is Accepted!

I talked with Bethany Services today and they accepted our homestudy that was completed through the county! Isn't God good?! That just saved us $3000! I am so excited to see how God weaves this whole thing together from beginning to end.

Our Application is Accepted!

We received a call this month telling us that our application was accepted! Everyone we have talked with at NEDC has been so nice. When we made the decision to go through with this process in January, husband hopped right to it and started getting the application together. The most time consuming thing was waiting for the home study to be completed. A home study costs around $3000 and takes about 3 months to complete. Since we are licensed for child and adult foster care, we have walked through two home studies through the county. We asked our licensor in Scott County if we could get a copy of our homestudy regarding children and submit it with the hopes that NEDC will accept it. Our licensor said she would get us a copy, but it would take a little while to get it together. So we waited and waited some more. In the meantime, I talked to someone at Bethany Services about this possibility of using our foster care homestudy and she said that we will probably need to have another homestudy done through them since foster care and embryo adoption are different. This didn't make much sense to me because our care of children regardless of where they come from would be the same. Read between the lines: this will cost us an additional $3000. I am glad God is sovereign.

When we received the homestudy from the county, we promptly sent the WHOLE packet (many pages) on to NEDC. They called us a couple days later saying we had been accepted into the program and were now on the waiting list. They also said we were the fastest people they have had to date to start application and get accepted. We were accepted inside of 2 months of husband coming home and talking about something I initially thought was a joke. God is amazing. Kathy, the patient coordinator, said she forwarded the homestudy on to Bethany Services for review and they will call us in a couple days to let us know if the homestudy was accepted or if we needed to do an independent one. So we wait again.