Back to the back burner...

The children's home we wanted to adopt from didn't even give us a shot.  Why?  We go to the wrong church.  It's very heartbreaking, and searching on Google I don't even know where else to look.  Our church supports a different children's home but looking at their website they don't do adoptions.  So... how else do you adopt a little kid?  Everywhere you look there are websites about adopting babies, but what if you don't want a baby?  And the few websites that have kids are mostly teenage.  I don't know...  I was just starting to get excited about the whole adopting thing and now we're back to square one.  Do you have to be foster parents first to adopt a kid?  Maybe we should just try becoming foster parents through DHS, think we could get them to send us only little kids?  Preferably ones that we may one day have the possibility of adopting?  *sigh*  Where to go next....