Well, we FINALLY have a court date!!!! MAY 11th!!!
This is what we were estimating, so this is excellent news to us today! If we pass court on the first try, we will travel to pick up our kids about one month later. So, that would put us at an estimated travel timeframe of mid-June.
We are so very excited about this and cannot WAIT!
If you feel so led, would you consider joining us for weekly fasting and prayer on Wednesdays from now until our successful court date? We are expecting miracles on our kids' behalf.
Psalm 97:4-6 (The Message)
His lightnings light up the world;
Earth, wide-eyed, trembles in fear.
The mountains take one look at God
And melt, melt like wax before earth's Lord.
The heavens announce that he'll set everything right,
And everyone will see it happen—glorious!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Melting Like Wax
During our last adoption process, we learned to not just pray and beg for miracles. Instead, we learned to just expect them. And we got them. Step after step after step during 2007, God moved mountains for us to get our kids. Seriously. The list of obstacles to us bringing our kids home last time was enormous to us. Of course, it's just an anthill to God.
This time, we have decided to once again expect the miracles of God to pave the clear path for us to bring our kids home. Here's where we stand right now: Our dossier is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is being translated. Within a week or two, we will hear of our assigned court date. We are hoping for a late April/early May court date. After a successful court date, we would travel just a few weeks later.
Obstacles, however, abound. The wait times for court dates right now are getting longer and longer and longer. On top of that, only about 50% of cases are passing court on the first try. If your case doesn't pass the first time, it gets postponed, usually for about a month later. That would push us back into summertime for traveling. For many families, that would be ideal. But, as a school teacher, I want to have as MUCH of the summer as possible to spend at home with our new kids. So, we are expecting and believing for and waiting for a successful court date on the first try. If you pray for NOTHING ELSE during our adoption process, PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS!!!
I had a vision the other night of a huge angel standing guard over our paperwork stack in an office in Ethiopia. We are believing for that. We are expecting that angel to move our papers to the right person's desk; to protect them from missplacement; to expedite them to the right powers-at-be.
Of course, we fully trust God and His timing and know without any doubt that He is in FULL control. When it comes down to it, though, there are three amazing children at an orphanage in Ethiopia waiting for their family to come for them. And they've been waiting for awhile. And we want them here in our house-of-fun!
Meanwhile, we continue to pray and believe and trust God for the rest of the $8,800 in travel expenses that we are raising.
Do it, God!!! We are praying for miracles. Scratch that...We are BELIEVING for miracles.
Psalm 97:5
"The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth."
This time, we have decided to once again expect the miracles of God to pave the clear path for us to bring our kids home. Here's where we stand right now: Our dossier is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is being translated. Within a week or two, we will hear of our assigned court date. We are hoping for a late April/early May court date. After a successful court date, we would travel just a few weeks later.
Obstacles, however, abound. The wait times for court dates right now are getting longer and longer and longer. On top of that, only about 50% of cases are passing court on the first try. If your case doesn't pass the first time, it gets postponed, usually for about a month later. That would push us back into summertime for traveling. For many families, that would be ideal. But, as a school teacher, I want to have as MUCH of the summer as possible to spend at home with our new kids. So, we are expecting and believing for and waiting for a successful court date on the first try. If you pray for NOTHING ELSE during our adoption process, PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS!!!
I had a vision the other night of a huge angel standing guard over our paperwork stack in an office in Ethiopia. We are believing for that. We are expecting that angel to move our papers to the right person's desk; to protect them from missplacement; to expedite them to the right powers-at-be.
Of course, we fully trust God and His timing and know without any doubt that He is in FULL control. When it comes down to it, though, there are three amazing children at an orphanage in Ethiopia waiting for their family to come for them. And they've been waiting for awhile. And we want them here in our house-of-fun!
Meanwhile, we continue to pray and believe and trust God for the rest of the $8,800 in travel expenses that we are raising.
Do it, God!!! We are praying for miracles. Scratch that...We are BELIEVING for miracles.
Psalm 97:5
"The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth."
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