ADOPTION NEWS!!!

YIPPPPEEEEE!!!!
We are so incredibly pleased to announce that we are now OFFICIALLY on the waiting list for our agency, All God's Children! We just received word this afternoon that our dossier had been reviewed, and everything looked fantastic. THANK YOU LORD for answering our prayers that everything would be done correctly and no "re-do's" would be necessary!
So....our first official waiting list numbers are...
#50 FOR THE GIRL WAITING LIST AND #22 FOR THE SIBLING WAITING LIST!!!
(The un-technical side of me is coming through with our daughter's picture being sideways--I could not figure out how to flip it for anything! :) Apologies!

Even though the numbers appear very different from one another,the sibling list tends to move a lot more slowly than the single child lists. With our sibling parameters being so limited (0-20 months), it will be an act of God if we end up with siblings. But....the Lord knows, and the Lord will do what He wants to do! We rest in that.

We can't tell you what a relief and what a feeling it is to FINALLY be on the waiting list. After hours of paperwork, education, standing in lines, sending emails and forms away....our paper chase is DONE (at least for the time being :)
We can now sit back, and anticipate meeting our new child/ren in the coming months. Although there is no way to know how long it will take for us to receive our "referral" (the term used for your adopted child when you find out who has been selected for your family), it is not unlikely we will be waiting at least 8-12 months before this will happen. Then comes having your court date in Ethiopia scheduled, passing court, and then finally travel. So it will be a little while before the new little Bailey(s) come home!
Please join us in praying for our child/ren and their birth mother and family as we wait. We pray for their health,for peace, for love and comfort, and that the hand of our Father God will be upon them.