Answer to Prayer
After waiting for 18 months, our US Homestudy will finally arrive at the US Embassy before Christmas day. A very big Christmas Present from our heavenly Father. Thank you Lord ! ! !
Prayer Requests
1) Pray that the CIS department of the US Embassy will approve our I-600.
2) Pray for the Christmas Vacation Bible School Coming up on December 29, 30 & 31st.
3) We had to take out a $600 30-day loan to pay our utilities and some unexpected adoption and immigration expenses. Please pray that God will provide us the funds to pay back this loan.
4) Pray that God will help us find a house to rent.
5) Pray that God will provide us with a car.
6) We are trying to reach a goal of 1000 prayer partners. We have 5 new prayer partners since our last update. We need 665 more. Please ask your friends to join our prayer team.
7) We need 100 people on our Financial Support Team. Pray that God will raise up this team to support the work among the Borana People. We have 11 people who have joined this team so far.
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ADOPTION UPDATE
Since the sequence of the adoption is so confusing. I thought I would give a sequence of events and show where we are. This is how we understand the sequence, but there are frequently things that come up that we have not previously been told about.
1) Apply for foster care approval.
2) Have a homestudy done by the Kenyan Adoption Agency.
3) Once Foster care approval is granted bring an adoptable child home for 3 months.
4) Have a home visit by the Kenyan adoption agency to observe the child in the home and then agree that we can keep him and proceed with applying for adoption.
5) File a petition for adoption with the Kenya government.
6) Have a guardian ad litem appointed by the Kenyan Govt.
7) Have a homestudy done by the Children's Dept of the Kenyan Government.
8) File the I-600 with the US Embassy in Kenya.
9) FBI records Check.
10) Kenyan Adoption Agency performs another homestudy and sends their report to a the Carolina Adoption Services in the USA.
11) Carolina Adoption Svcs. certifies that the US homestudy done by the Kenyan agency meets US Guidelines.
ALL OF THE ABOVE HAVE BEEN COMPLETED
12) US Homestudy along with an FBI record check are reviewed by the US Embassy.
13) Approval of the I-600.
14) Go to court for our petition for adoption to be heard.
Now from this list it sounds like we are almost through. And truthfully, we really should be almost through. We met Ross 3 years ago on January 19th. After three years we are really praying that it is almost over. However, let me warn you, many people have gone to court for what should be the last time and the court has "dreamed up" some other document that must be presented. Something that no one else has every been asked for before and that the lawyer has no way of knowing the judge will ask for. So, while we are a lot closer to the end than we have ever been, it still could be a while.
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