Submission date

Okay, when I said I hoped our submission date was not too far off...I didn't mean I wanted it to be in three weeks!!  Our facilitator emailed our agency telling them that our submission date is on June 30th.  Not exactly what I am prepared for.....we had hoped to travel this year,but we do not have enough money to travel as early as a June 30th submission date would require.  From what I can tell from other blogs, the travel date is a month to two months after the submission date.  That would mean we would travel late July to August.  We are shortly $25,000 at this point.  I was completely stressed out yesterday.  We still have a large number of things to gather for our dossier and I am not certain we can get them all together and sent to Ukraine in time to be translated and then submitted.  I am completely confused at how we got a submission date so quickly with no warning.  I thought we would have a couple months to finish prepping our dossier before we have to submit which would make our travel time 3 or 4 months out. 

Anyway, Jeff and I prayed for a long time yesterday and we just have no peace about this situation. We don't want to borrow more than $10,000 if we can help it.  We don't feel that it is God's Will to borrow money for our adoption.  So we don't know what will happen now.  I emailed our agency and asked if it is possible to get a different submission date, because we won't be ready for this one.  She is suppose to get back with me after she hears from our facilitator.  We still don't have our immigration approval not to mention needing to get a letter from my employer...I am a teacher...we are out of the summer.  I don't even know if my employer is in town! There are just so many things upsetting about this situation.  If we had any idea we would be expected to submit our dossier this soon, we would have told our agency we needed to put things on hold so we had time to raise more money.

  I don't know how other people come up with that much money, but our resources are limited.  We have been cooking/catering our butts off, yard sales, recycling fundraisers, flower bulb fundraiser, collecting change, Chic-Fila Spirit night, and a few donations.  Still with all that work we have only raised/earned $11,000.  I am in the process in applying for a grant, but when I look up other grants they all seem to be on hold due to lack of funding.  We haven't yet  simply asked for donations, but we are probably going to have to do that.  Jeff and I had been discussing taking out a loan over the weekend, then on Sunday,  Crown Financial was on the radio with a question/answer section... One of the questions was "Should I borrow money for my adoption?"  His response was that adopting is missions work for helping orphans and that the person should not borrow money, but should give their friends, family and church an opportunity to invest in their adoption as missions work.  I thought that made sense, but it is still very difficult for me to ask people for money. 
Please pray for God's guidance and clarity of mind in this situation.  We want God's timing and Will, but we just don't feel that going into debt and then having two additional mouths to feed is in God's Will.   Pray that we get favor with the SDA in Ukraine and get a different submission date or that God shows up in a mighty way and provides the money we need if we have to keep the June 30th submission date.