it's not that we'd forgotten about the possibility or that we'd lost hope, but we'd honestly become resigned to the fact that this was going to continue to take a very long time. while online i saw an ad for an adoption agency - quiver full. the more i read, the more interested i became in what they had to offer. after some prayerful consideration will and i decided we'd reach out to them for more information. they set up a call and answered our questions about self-matching and the marketing strategies that they feel best help to connect their adoptive hopefuls and expectant parents. we really thought this could be a good fit for our continued search.
because we're already working with bethany christian services we needed to be up front with them and let them know that we'd like to work with another agency. we hated to loose the fees we'd paid up to this point and did not want to damage our strong relationships with them, but we'd seen no interest in the past (almost) two years and felt things growing stale. to our surprise bethany reached back out to our communication and graciously allowed us to carry on working with them while we also attempt to self match with quiver full. we were elated at the thought that we'd have some assistance in better marketing ourselves.
as of march 30th we became an active family with quiver full. their strategy includes a facebook page in which we can provide further details about our lives and how we live on the day to day. by sharing this page with our friends, and our friends sharing it with their friends, etc. it is hoped that it will create a web of people and that within these shares we'll end up reaching out to an expectant mother who could be considering an adoption plan for her unborn baby. it really is all in the hands of God, but we know that this networking is part of his divine plan. everywhere we look we're seeing arrows and they were pointing us right to quiver full! it just feels right and we know that even while we wait (and it seems like we wait and wait and wait) He is in control and that the right baby will someday join our family.
right now they'd like us to reach 1,000 likes on our facebook page by the end of the month. that really seems daunting, but if you'd be so kind to give us a like and share, we'd greatly appreciate it. you never know who knows somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody.
facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/willandadri/
the work with quiver full also includes more online marketing in the form of ads, as well as a website, an online profile book, and connections in another state. we are still in the process of pulling all of our profile book information from a hard copy into the online template, but hope to have that completed soon. for now we just have a static page, but that site is:
http://www.willandadriadopt.com/
we thank everyone for continuing to pray for our family as we wait. we're enjoying every second of dax being an only child. he's the best little fella anyone could ever imagine and he's going to be a fantastic big brother to a little sibling one day. he still prays for this little one all the time and he even hangs out in their room. he longs to have a sibling as much as we desire to add another little one but, while it's hard and the wait seems so incredibly long, we wait with a renewed hope and trust in God that He is laying this path exactly as it should be constructed.
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