The Summit

by Ruth

As I mentioned in the last post, I hadn’t been able to catch many of the Global Leadership Summit speakers.  As part of the Promotional Strategy Team, our work is done once the Summit starts.  But when the lunch fundraiser and t-shirt sales, and managing that group of volunteers was added to my slate, I was unable to actually be in the Summit much.

But somehow, Thursday & Friday, when I did have a chance to slip in and listen, whatever I heard seemed to line up with the idea of us adopting.  Or maybe it’s just what my brain and heart were tuned to.  But I truly think God was speaking.

Also, on Friday afternoon, our lead Pastor had a lunch for those from KCC attending the Summit.  He was sharing a 3-fold vision for the church – to be involved in the community through outreach in the schools, the neighborhoods, and fostering & adoption.   With the fostering and adoption piece, he was praying that 100 families would be raised up to be foster parents, Safe Families, or adoptive parents in the coming school year.  Kyle mentioned that in October he would be doing a sermon series on adoption.

And throughout the rest of the Summit, every time Dirk and/or Sue would walk past one or both of us, they would smile and then put their hands to cover their eyes and pick up their pace a bit.  And then we’d look at each other, and shake our heads just a little.  Because we knew if really looked at each other, or started a conversation again, there would be puddles of tears on the floor.  Because emotions were high.  Because something big was going on.  Because of the thought this orphan boy just might have found his family.   Because we were beginning to see and feel “God moments” already.