From: Mike_Wise
Date: Mon Feb  6 11:17:18 EST 2012
Subject: Be fruitful and multiply.

Responses russ: thanks (2/6/12) clrclady: Praying (2/11/12) Responses (sorted by date) clrclady: Praying (2/11/12) russ: thanks (2/6/12) As long as I can remember I've wanted to be a dad. For almost the same amount of time I've been aware that it might be difficult for me to be a father, I've also been distinctly aware that there is a difference, a big difference, between those terms. This post is harder to write than I thought. There is so much detail that I know wouldn't be proper to share. You are my church family and I trust you so let me share just this to open. Corrie and I have found it nearly impossible for us to have kids biologically. Let me also say that the issue isn't something that is wrong with Corrie, it is something that is wrong with me. It's something, as I stated above, that I have been aware of for a long long time. I don't know if I can overcome it, I don't know if it is something that God wants me to overcome. As much as I have cried out that he heal me in this particular area and make me normal he has chosen not to. I don't know or understand his reasons, but he is my God and I will always do my very best to trust him. I also believe that God does everything in our lives for a purpose. I believe with my whole heart that one of the multitude of reasons he led us to The Village is so that we could become friends with Ryan and Andrea. So we could come along side them and their awesome kids, learn their story and share ours. It has been a blessing getting to know them and their story over the time that we have been here. We have recently been speaking to Andrea about foster care and adoption. Corrie and I both believe that this is the direction that God is leading us into. He wants us to love and raise kids that may not be getting that love and support from other places. He wants us to become Mom and Dad to the otherwise motherless and fatherless. In order to do this, various aspects of our lives must change. The first order of business is for Corrie and I to get a place of our very own. I love my folks and they have been a blessing the last 5 years and we have helped them out financially as well but it is time for us to stand on our own and it is time for my folks to be able to enjoy having their own space as well. I don't know right now if we should get a house or an apartment. I don't know if we should live in our very own space or seek community living but I do know that God will provide us these answers in his time. I need your prayers. Please pray that Corrie and I will become more financially disciplined. Please pray also that God will open up opportunities and guide our steps. The goal is by this time next year to have our own space but if it can happen in less time than awesome. After taxes come we'll have $2000 saved up. I hope to add at least 400 bucks to that every month. The next step after getting our own place will be to go through the process of becoming either foster parents or adoptive parents. We are not sure which direction God will lead us in but we ask for prayer in this as well. If he wants us to be foster parents, we will do it, but we will need much love and support from God if those kids get taken from us. We wish to provide a forever family to the kid or kids that enter our home but that may or may not be His plan. Then obviously the final thing that we will need prayer for is that a kid or kids are found that we can raise like our own. Pray for our patience in this endeavor. Pray that we will endure the race. If you guys need anymore details you can email me privately at mikewise77@gmail.com Thank you so very much for standing with us in this. God bless. Mike

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From: russ
Date: Mon Feb  6 15:56:54 EST 2012
Subject: thanks

From: clrclady
Date: Sat Feb 11 15:04:49 EST 2012
Subject: Praying