Choosing an attorney/ agency . . .

Looking back, it is neat to see how God put us with our adoption attorney we are using.

Back in November, I had an attorney group in mind that is pretty well known in the Upstate. However, after reading through their information we realized that they were much too expensive for us to use! I was dissapointed but after researching local attorney's and agencies, I see God had a different plan.

I began calling different local attorny's and agencies that I had either heard of before, or that someone referred us to. We ended up receiving information from 4 different ones.

One evening in mid-November, Dan and I sat together with the information from each attorney/agency in front of us. We carefully read through each packet, and ended up with 2 different adoption attorney's in front of us that we liked. One was Ray Godwin and the other was a guy in Columbia that someone referred to me. We ended up choosing Ray.

About 2 weeks prior, I met Carlee's class at lunch time to have lunch with her. Her teacher was talking to me casually and I mentioned our adoption to her. She began telling me about a little girl in Carlee's class that was adopted and her mom taught there at the school as well.
At that time I was desperate to talk to anyone who had been through the experience, so I went home and emailed her. I never received a response back. Come to find out my email didn't show up in my sent box, which meant she never got my email. So, I decided to send her a new one. She immediately emailed back and told me to call her.

Karen's story was touching! And come to find out, after our one hour phone coversation, she used Attorney Ray Godwin and had such a great experience!

I knew then that we had chosen the Adoption Attorney group that God wanted us to use.

Ray has been been working adoptions for 20 years. He and his wife, Laura who works along side of him at Night Light Christian Adoptions, adopted two girls themselves.
Check out his website: http://www.scadopt.net/