An Unexpected Turn of Events

I only have energy to post a copy of the email we sent out this evening.....

Hi Everyone,

A  new level of faith for us that we are trying to process.  It took us months of praying, and thinking and going back and forth about this adoption.  We finally felt we were to go forward.  We did. We drug our feet some. We went forward again and finally we are close to the end of all the paperwork.  We have told God over and over again that we will drop this all at the 11th hour if He tells us to.  Our Agency has been incredible.  They have emailed us or called us multiple times during every week of this process.  They are organized, their programs run smoothly, they have just been wonderful.  They have been around since 2003 and have done over 1,000 adoptions.

Because our agency's main income is from Russian adoptions, and those adoptions can no longer happen,  our entire agency has found it necessary to CLOSE!  We just got an official email telling us this, offering us an appointment with them to ask questions and to process.  They need our permission to transfer our paperwork to a different agency.  We don't WANT a different agency. What is God doing?  Tony is trying to teach, I am here crying, and what is God doing????  Is this a sign to stop, is it God saying we have to step it up faith wise? The money we have put into it has brought us as far as our home study, which can still go in next week to be approved.  We've put nothing into Hungary itself.  Is God calling us instead to do something else with this homestudy?  Or are we to let it all go completely?  Ugh....  Not all agencies are good.  We already "know" all the people we are working with.... Even our travel coordinator over in Hungary, who now will  not be the same.  Will things go as smoothy with new agency?  Will we be some of the first guinea pigs now with a new place? We are totally confused.  Did God just want to know we were willing?  Did He just want our hearts?  Is He asking us to go forward in faith or to stop in faith????!!!!!!!!!!!  Wow...this was totally unexpected!  Totally. But isn't that often God's way.

Thank you for any prayers or input,
We only want God's will in this....
We truly need wisdom....We realize God sees the whole picture
and we don't.  We are willing to continue.  We are willing to stop.
In the meantime, our girl still needs a home.


Karen and Tony