He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10
We are waiting upon the Lord and His timing to bring our precious Abby home. The courts are closed in Ethiopia for the months of August and September (due to their rainy season) and our paperwork was not submitted in time.
Our earliest possible court date could be in October but that is unlikely because of the amount of adoption cases they have to review. It is most likely our 1st trip will be in November or December and our 2nd trip will be in January or February (at least we are hoping things will go this quickly for us after court reopens). Your continued prayers and support are very much appreciated.
For those of you who want to help us and are not sure how... you can shop in our Christmas catalog that will be coming out next month!
* We will have items for sale by donation (all proceeds go to our adoption fund to help us bring Abby home!)
* We will have items for all ages of people that folks can give as gift for the holidays!
* Folks can pass on our catalog to their friends and family members for them to do the same (however, you may not want to send it to folks they are shopping for out of it :)
____________________________________________________________________Here is a blurb from an email that we received this week from our placing agency...
" Your packages/letter were sent to Ethiopia as soon as they came. I know there were trips to southern Ethiopia by our staff there, so the things for the girls would have gone along. The orphanage staff could create a translated copy of your letter, if our staff in Addis Ababa did not do it. And I believe things may have been mailed to Operation Rescue if staff were not traveling to northern Ethiopia. Right now there are not as many trips up there, but I do not keep up with all of the travels of staff in Ethiopia as they are traveling all the time all over the country. If it wasn’t mailed, then it would have gone personally with someone traveling there
· Know that I will let you know immediately when I hear about paperwork being completed. It usually takes many appointments and many people being organized to be a part of it. Documents often have to go through many, many hands before anything is completed, and it is quite a complicated process. And in Ethiopia, as I am sure I have shared with you, things move much slower than in the US.
I just found out that any documents that were submitted to court after July 1st will not be reviewed until it reopens at the end of September. I know it is so painful to consider having to tack on 2 more months of waiting. Once you have identified the child you want to adopt, the wait is so hard. Hang in there. It is difficult to have absolutely no control over the process in Ethiopia. Push, push, push is all we can do. "
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I was doing some research the other day on the area where Abby is from, Tigre, and thought you might be interested in seeing it as well.
I pray all is going well for ya'll. Thank you for your continued support.
