11/12/09 - We have a court date!!!!

An email arrived today telling us that we have a court date on December 2nd!!!!!

Mike was actually checking email when I walked in to the room to talk to him. I was looking over his shoulder at the in box as he was talking and saw a message from Anna Graham, from America World our international agency, with the subject "Court Date." I leaned over Mike, opened the email, scanned down to find December 2 in bold and italicized, and screamed right in Mike's ear!! All the while he is saying who's this? what's going on? when's our court date? Then I did a happy dance, looked at the calendar and realized December 2 is only two and a half weeks away!!! WOW!!!

PRAISE: Please join us in praising God for how quick this part of the adoption is going! While we thought we would know by the end of the month when our court date was and had hoped and prayed it would be in December, we never dreamed we would know this soon or that court would be in early December!

PRAYER: Our paperwork - our home study update (we increased our age range) must be approved by IL DCFS, then sent to federal USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services), which must also approve it and send the updates information to NVC (National Visa Center) which must send the corrected information to the Ethiopian Embassy in Addis Ababa. If that all sounds confusing, it is! And it has not been an easy process for anyone in our Yahoo Group who has gone through it. But without the paperwork in Ethiopia, we can't book a flight and travel. So if you will simply pray for "everything adoption" we'd be grateful!!!!!!

God already knows when our successful court date will be, when our updated paperwork will arrive in Ethiopia, and we will will travel to bring the boys home. The K-Love verse this morning says it all - Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 That's what we plan on doing over the next two months!!!