Pray for April

I just wanted to post an update and ask for prayer requests.  Some of you may have read my blog post in February about being frustrated and discouraged.  Well, sadly things have not changed on the Ethiopia adoption front.  The Ethiopian government is still not processing paperwork for the children in orphanages.  This means that there haven't been any new referrals, still, since July.  I go back and forth in how I feel.  Sometimes, I feel that this is God's plan so I just need to wait and be patient.  I know these things happen on His timeline and not mine.  Other days I feel so discouraged.  I feel we will be waiting forever for our daughter, and will be really old by the time we get to bring her home! We are praying that April will be a good month! 

The newest news is that the US department of State just sent out a notification regarding the slow down, that seemed as if things have been resolved and paperwork will begin to be processed.  However, there is no confirmation of that on the Ethiopia side of things.  However, the government set up meetings with the Ethiopian adoption program for this weekend.  Friday there was a meeting between the Ethiopian government and all of the orphanages, then tomorrow, Sunday (actually tonight US time) there will be a meeting between the Ethiopian government and all of the adoption agencies there.  We are really hoping that this goes hand in hand with what we found out via the US Department of State. 
My prayer request for the month of April is that these meetings are a good sign that processes have been resolved and that paperwork will resume moving through the system and referrals will start happening again!  I would love to see some of these children waiting in crowded orphanages getting to be matched with their forever families.  It breaks my heart to hear that because of this slow down the orphanages are at capacity and beyond because no one is transitioning out of the orphanages anymore.  I would also love to get a new, smaller wait list number for the month of May!

So please please please this next month add Ethiopia adoptions to your prayer list!  Prayer works, and God can hear us!