The Congo (from 2010)

Hi! We are the Long’s, a family of six on a journey  to our sweet number 7!
The path has twisted and turned, but now we find ourselves months away from bringing home a little girl (birth to 3 years old) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Why the DRC?  Well,  we came to a point of much uncertainty as to where we would be adopting from, so we asked God to lead us as we asked one question:  “Where are the worst circumstances and the greatest need?”.

It wasn’t long before we were convinced that the war-ravaged, AIDS-ridden, poverty-stricken DRC was where we would be headed.

And the paperwork and waiting, and waiting and paperwork has begun…