Expedited Adoption

Because of the pressing medical needs of our adopted kids, we've been in the process of expediting our adoption. It can be a pretty long process, because you basically have to get two different governments to sort through your paperwork and green light it all. But, we've had some encouragement.

On the US side of things, they're expediting us pretty rapidly, all things considered. They told us that the whole process from their end would take about two weeks! This is a process that normally takes a couple of months. 

For part of this process, we had to drive to Yakima to get "biometric" fingerprints. They basically stuck our hands on a scanner and then scanned our prints and sent them on to Homeland Security.  Assuming that we are not hardened criminals, then they'll approve us and we'll be able to scratch off one more step to getting our kids home safely.

We got some major encouragement after returning from Yakima. The very next day, our paperwork was emailed to us, completed. We thought two weeks would be fast, how about two days! That was a real answer to prayer.

At this point, the biggest barrier we have is still finances. We've been encouraged by how God has met our needs up to this point, and we look forward to how He'll keep doing it.

Will you continue to pray that 1) our process moves quickly and 2) our financial needs are met. Specifically, we're still looking at travel costs and orphanage fees.