Keep Praying!

Please pray for our adoption process. The past couple of months have been incredibly difficult and frustrating for us because we feel like we are so close but yet so far away. A few weeks ago we found out that the reason our adoption was taking so much longer was because the older girl we were referred(Leah)entered the orphanage with a sibling that has since passed away. Our heart is just breaking for her because in the last 2 years, she has lost both parents and a sibling and she just turned 4 last month.

Today, we found out that all of her paperwork has to be redone before we will be able to pass court and bring her home. Rachel's paperwork is complete and it is ready for court and we can go get her as soon as she passes court. Currently, the orphanage is reworking our paperwork as two individual adoptions so that once that is done, we can have court date and go get Rachel. This complicates matters, though, for us because that will mean we will have to go back and get Leah once her paperwork is done and passes court, etc. Also, since Leah's paperwork has to be redone, the Ethiopian government is considering her to be under the new guidelines that mandate we travel for court and the embassy visit. This could mean we have to make three trips over there.

Please pray that we would have a divine intervention to expedite Leah's process so that we can get them both at the same time or at the very least that our trip to get Rachel will coordinate with Leah's court date so that at most, we would have to make two trips.

Please say a prayer right now that everything would work smoothly and quickly so that we can get these precious girls into our home.