Please Pray!

We just received some hard news.  The US Embassy in Ethiopia announced today that they are changing the adoption processing time line.  They will be taking several weeks or even a few months after each embassy appointment to make a thorough investigation of a case before they issue a child a visa to travel.  Of course, they have the right to do this and we want them to have time to be sure that adoptions are legit and legal.  But this may change things for our upcoming trip.

Our US Embassy appointment is on Thursday at 3 pm.  Under the old time line, we were supposed to get the visas for our children on Friday afternoon.  Our flight leaves Ethiopia on Friday night.  Now, depending on how things go at the embassy appointment Thursday, we might need to fly home without our son and daughter, and come back to get them a few weeks/months later.

I spoke with our adoption director on the phone a few minutes ago and she seemed hopeful.  She said that since we already have an embassy appointment she doesn't think they would hold us to this new rule.  But there's no way to know until we get there.

Please pray with us that God would give us favor with the US Embassy!  He is greater than the rulers of this world.  He has placed them in their positions of power.  Proverbs 21:1 says "The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He will."  We trust our kind Father to do what is right, and we hope you'll join with us in asking Him to allow us to bring our babies home on Friday, March 12!

Psalm 42:1-3, 10 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble.  Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling.  "Be still and know that I am God.  I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"