Once again Beth & I thank everyone for their prayers and encouragement as we continue in our adoption journey from Ethiopia. We are so excited yet praying hard for patience as we must trust God's timing.
However, we did receive some exciting news last week. Our case worker sent us a personal email (that's a very big deal) telling us that we are now "first in line" to receive the next set of siblings that comes into our agency's care through the Ethiopian government!! She said that the actual referral could still be "weeks or months" away (praying for weeks) but this is still big news for us.
Here's a rough outline of what will happen:
- Children (in our case siblings) are made available for adoption through our agency.
- Our agency contacts us with this information. We have several days to accept or decline this referral.
- Once accepted, the children's case is sent to Ethiopian court where a judge will award parental rights to Beth & I.
- Once this decision is handed down by the court, Beth & I will travel to Ethiopia (after we get several vaccinations) to pick them up!
- We come home with a bigger family and a blessing from God!
Our minds simply cannot handle how awesome this journey has been. Just to think that right now, God has children who are orphans that He is sovereignly working to place in our family ... God is so BIG ... I cannot fathom Him or His ways ... but I trust Him and know that He is with us!!
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