We have moved!

I am so excited to announce that we have moved! This blog started a long time ago just to keep family in the loop on our first born. Then it became how we shared our adoption journey with all of you! As you walked though our adoption with us, I grew so fond of this space. The community I saw forming with you guys was so precious to me. I loved getting to process life and hear stories of what God was teaching you. Since bringing E home, life has been so fast pace. We have continued to say yes to God in big areas of our lives and therefore have had many changes this past year. Although I wanted to blog about those things along the way, it was just too much to process. I am so excited about re-purposing this blog, giving it more of a focus now that our adoption is over and sharing with all of you what God has done this past year, and what he continues to do. I hope you follow along! 

So, this blog is moving over to www.thegirlwhosaidyes.blogspot.com.

After a little while I will delete this blog altogether. So save the new address and sign up to follow me with your reader or just by email. Have a great day and I look forward to hearing from you!

Krista

A Great Story (by Jake)

It is easy to identify a great story when you see one or hear one. But, we've found it is much harder to identify a great story when you are in one. Perhaps one reason for this is the natural rhythms of life make it hard to recognize when a great story is beginning.

Krista, Camp and I (Jake) find ourselves in the midst of a great story about God using a family to reflect His love to an orphaned boy in Uganda. However, we didn't realize this story was being told until we were six months into it.

Looking back now, we can see how God began telling this story the day I accepted a new job as the Community Pastor at HCBC Pflugerville. A part of that job was to oversee ministry to the fatherless in our community. Through that God began to open me and Krista's eyes to the orphan crisis both in Pflugerville and around the world (There are 147 million orphans in our world today). As a result, in the spring of '09 we began to pray about how God would have us respond to the great need He was revealing to us. However, it was not until the fall that we really began to recognize the story we were being swept up into.

In the fall I read A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller. God used that book and many conversations with Krista to compel us to tell great stories with our lives for God's glory. Shortly after that I had the opportunity to give a message at our church about God's heart for the fatherless. (click here to listen, click here to see the videos and read the transcript) Through the preparation of that message we became convinced that we had to do something to reflect His heart for the orphan. We didn't know exactly what that meant yet, but we were committed to do whatever God would have us do.

Finally, in November Krista and got away to further investigate how we could love God by loving the orphan. After much prayer our question changed from, "should we adopt" to "why shouldn't we adopt?" For us the answer to that question became simple, with 147 million orphans in the world how could we not? And so we decided with great joy and yet still with many questions to adopt.

It was at the point that we finally realized we were in the midst of a great story.

And so it begins...

For those of you who don't know... our family is beginning a journey.

I feel as though we have walked into a story. A story full of love, hope and even a little conflict.

It's the journey of adoption.

We are in the process of adopting a little boy from Uganda and could not be more excited!

This blog is for you to walk through life with us for the next several months. We hope you enjoy getting to see God work through this process and even just get a glimps into our sometimes crazy home!

Over the next few posts Jake and I will tell the story of how we got to this point. But for now... we are excited to be blogging once again!

Until next time...