In a land of 5 million orphans, there is tremendous need for God's people to step in and become fathers to the fatherless---and they have. In 2009, 2,277 orphans were adopted by Americans alone (http://adoption.state.gov/news/total_chart.html). Families have risen to the calling to care for the orphans and, of course, as this happens, the enemy has taken advantage. Because of suspicions of misconduct by some adoption agencies here in the states, the U.S. Dept. of State and the Ethiopian High Court has put new regulations on Ethiopian adoptions. These new regulations will make Ethiopian adoptions more difficult and costly.
Our agency has notified us that it has been able to secure 1 more month to get adoptive parents paperwork through before they would be required to adhere to the new regulations. As I posted earlier, our paperwork has been in process since the end of February. We are praying that we will make it within the 1 month deadline! Will you pray with us for our adoption and for the hundreds of others in the same situation?
We are concerned that if we were required to take the new additional steps, our adoption would be pushed back farther into the year---possibly much farther if it fell into Ethiopia's rainy season.
"I will go before you and level the mountains,
I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron,
I will give you the treasures hidden in the darkness
and riches hidden in the secret places,
so that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel,
who call you by your name."
Is. 45:2-3
Lord, I ask that you would level the mountains in front of us. Please bring the son you are giving us home soon. We love him.
We are supposed to find out more information about the new requirements this week. We'll keep you posted. We're praying for your family that maybe you'll fall within the one month window and not have to make the extra trip.
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