update and adoption.

I cant believe its been so long since i have updated our blog. We have some deaf move away and some new ones coming. We officially moved the church into its own building and we continue to see growth spiritually among the deaf. We are still working on the papers for the visas because we need to be registered with the government first and waiting for that to happen. We have also started our homestudy for adopting a child. Please pray with us during this time as we try to adopt. We have a couple options open to us. One would to be foreign (haiti) adoption which we have prayed about before during the earthquake a few years back. Second would be to adopt through the foster care, however this brings up many questions and concerns with us being missionaries and living out of the country. The third would be a birthmother in the states threw one of the churches finding us and placing the child with us after the birth. The first and third would be ideal so please pray that God will open up the right door at this time. If you would like more information on how to pray or help on either the visa situation or the adoption please email dyc4deafofmex@aol.com or call us via the number on our website at www.deafofmex.com. We have been teaching 2 deaf children sign language on a weekly basis and also weekly at the bible institute here in Mante. We have a student that is in the bible institute working with us this sememster to train him to work in deaf ministry after he graduates in december.

The church has been running from 15 to 20 these last few months. We have seen 4 professions of faith and now renting a building for the church. We will be having our first service there sunday March 6 as a dedication service. Please pray for this as we still have a lot to do to get ready for. We went to Cd. Victoria yesterday to find out the paperwork was wrong, we are correcting this and are hopfully able to return on monday and have all the paperwork correct and to send them on to mexico city to finanalize them. Pray for us during this time. Also we have found out that mexico has passed a law that will not let us go straight to dif (social service) and adopt that way and let us nationalize the child as a citizen of the US so we are back to square one on this. Our options are either go through an agency (which are all waiting for approval from Mexico because of new law) or adopt from somewhere else which means US homestudy. Please pray for wisdom on this as we seek the lords leading, and timing.