Our Journey to China

The last few weeks has been a whirlwind of activity in the Dodge household!

We are adopting!

There are so many details and we can really just sum it all up to "IT IS A GOD SIZED EVENT" that is happening to our family. We officially started the adoption process on Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012. On Sunday April 15, 2012 we submitted of "letter of intent" to be the parents of D**g Sa*M*ng (John). We feel like we are in a race with a crazy amount of paper work and a crazy amount of money needed to bring John home to Jackson, Missouri. We can not wait to love on him and to show him the love of Jesus! On February 17, 2003 a biological mother placed John in a vegetable market in a town in China. I believe she placed him with love in a place where she knew he would be found. He was found by police, they assumed he was one month old and gave him the birth date of January 17, 2003. He was placed with a foster family where he lived till March 22, 2011 when his foster mom was no longer able to take care of him due to health issues. He was then placed in Harmony House which is an orphanage ran by Harmony Outreach.

He is considered 'special needs' by the Chinese government because he is missing 4 fingers on his left hand. We think he is perfectly created by a loving God. We are claiming James 1:6 "But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind". We are confident that since the Lord has called us to this incredible journey He will provide all we need. We don't now how that is going to look but we are waiting with excitement. Clearly this is going to be a God sized event from start to finish.