Praise God that in less than one week, our dossier:

• Left Puyallup for Washington, DC
• Was authenticated by the US Department of State
• Was processed by the Embassy of Ethiopia
• Traveled by FedEx to the Children’s House Internataional (CHI) office in Ferndale, Washington
• Got bundled with other dossiers (and notarized copies of ours)
• Left for Ethiopia via FedEx

We would like to thank Laura Morrison (the Assistant Stork) in Washington, DC.  Her courier service made this possible.  I cannot overstate our appreciation (think about it!  the US government and the Ethiopian embassy processed the 20 or so documents in our dossier in just a couple days).  The process in DC went so quickly that we weren’t really ready on this end.  We had to scramble to get the notarized copies to Ferndale in order to allow CHI to bundle it all together and get it sent off this week.  And while we were scrambling, the Adoption Ministry and CHI scrambled with us to complete this miracle.  We had failed to sign and notarize one copy – Gayle at the Adoption Ministry office took care of that quickly.  Then CHI held their weekly package to Ethiopia for a day so that our packet would be expedited.  Another big thank you to each of them!

All in all, it’s been a great week.  From here, timing is in the hands of the Ethiopians – as directed by the sovereign God of the Universe.  We trust His timing and pray that he will cause people to move quickly.  We’re told to expect that our court date will probably be at least four months away.  Of course, we would like the boys home as soon as possible.

Continue to pray for:

• God’s hand in the timing of our court date
• Protection and encouragement for the boys (waiting is hard on them too!)
• Randy’s future employment