Breakthrough

First of all - wow - thank you all for the support and prayers.  This past few years of waiting have been hard, but you all have really picked us up again.  Thank you for that!

Now for some good news......we did have a breakthrough on K's case this week!  We received a phone call from our agency Friday afternoon telling us that MOWA had reviewed our case and planned to give us a POSITIVE letter.  This.Is.Huge.  This is the first time in a year that we have had positive movement.  Your prayers answered!  Now our agency does not actually have the letter with signature in hand, because the person that needs to sign the letter was not in the office, but our hope is that the letter (which they said they have drafted now) will get signed this week.  Once the letter is in hand, our agency will submit it to court and a date will be assigned for us to appear in court in Ethiopia (likely 2-4 weeks later) to finalize the adoption.  We've taken a huge step forward this week and we are praising God for that.

Changing the subject, I wanted to answer a question that a lot of you have been asking.  Do K and D know that we are adopting them?  The answer is yes -  K does know.  He had to appear in court a year ago to state he wanted to be adopted.  He was told about us at that time and we have been communicating with him through letters and videos via our agency's social worker since that time.  Below is a picture of K's wall at the orphanage.  He has posted all of our letters and pictures on the wall in his room.  :)   As for D, he does not know that we are pursuing his adoption.  Since we are still so unsure of what will happen, he has not yet been told about us.

Please continue to pray them home with us.  We have seen movement this week, but we are not done yet!

Until they are home,

Dana and Jack