Foster Care Update

Dear Family and Friends,

Some of you know this by now, but we wanted to write to each of you to sincerely thank you for the numerous prayers and encouragement that you have offered Kait and I throughout our situation with Kailey, Paige, and Joe.  Last spring, the Lord moved both Kait and I’s heart to get involved in the orphan/needy children ministry in any way we could, and through prayerfully searching out multiple options, we decided together that foster care was right for us at the time.  In August, God brought Kailey, Paige, and Joe into our lives and the past 8 months have been filled with joy, pain, sorrow, happiness, and a thousand different emotions. 

As most of you know, Kait and I were presented with the potential opportunity to adopt these children early on in this process and, now 8 months later, we can together say that we feel that the best thing moving forward for us and the children is find them a new home, hopefully which will be a permanent, Christ-Loving home.  We understand that we can only control certain aspects throughout this process, and therefore, humbly bow ourselves at the altar of the cross, confessing our sins to the Lord and trusting that He has a plan much greater, grander, and better than anything we can imagine. 

This has been the toughest decision of our young, immature lives, but we just want to sincerely thank each of you for your prayers and ask that each of you would continue to pray for the following:

·  That God would find Kailey, Paige, and Joe a loving home that would teach them the Gospel and their desperate need for it

·  That God would provide them a home and parents who can unconditionally love them no matter what

·  That Kailey, Paige, and Joe wouldn’t be scarred deeper by ANOTHER transition in their lives and that God would give them grace to not look back upon their time with us with hurt feelings, but that they would grow to know that they were loved by us very much

·  That the power of the cross would heal Kait and I in various ways that we currently feel/will feel scarred through this situation. 

We love each of you and can’t even begin to explain how much you have each meant to us through our care for these kids. 

Matt & Kait