Many of the Waiting Families are each taking ONE DAY in the month of September to FAST & PRAY:
__For IBESR to process and approve ALL of the ***current waiting families dossiers***
__For IBESR to approve the families to be matched to the children that they've already been matched to! (by the orphanage director where their child is living)
__For God to whisper The Names of our children into the precious ears of the people who hold our dossiers
__For God to set the orphans into families and bring those children home!!!
__For IBESR to process and approve ALL of the ***current waiting families dossiers***
__For IBESR to approve the families to be matched to the children that they've already been matched to! (by the orphanage director where their child is living)
__For God to whisper The Names of our children into the precious ears of the people who hold our dossiers
__For God to set the orphans into families and bring those children home!!!
Sunday SEPTEMBER 21 is OUR family’s day to fast and pray,,,and we are asking our friends and family to join us. Will you please join with Eric and me on September 21 (and throughout the month of September)? Please let us know if you will be partnering with us, on behalf of our future son, W, and the hundreds of waiting children and families!
There are many families who have been waiting longer than we have--some have waited much, much longer (Lord, lift them up and strengthen them!), and we have no idea if we will receive our official match to W this month. However, it would be such a joy to see ANY movement forward in Haitian adoptions, to see any children find families!!! But let us pray BIG, for mountains to be MOVED!!! We are putting our hopes and trust in God, knowing that He is working all this for the good of His children who are called according to HIS purposes. We cannot see and we may not understand, but He is at work. Who will join us??!!
“A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families…” Psalm 68:5-6
**Please Note: As is the case with all international adoption programs, rumors and misinformation abound and accurate information often comes in slow trickles. The above statements about ibesr closing to new applicants in September has only been confirmed by a few adoption agencies, but not all. Most (?) of us adoptive parents feel this info is fairly accurate. IF it is, then the need for prayer is GREAT. If it is not accurate, then the need for prayer is even GREATER. :) K, just putting that out there. Love ya guys. Thanks for supporting us! :)
We are praying hard for things to move for you guys and the other waiting families! We are praying especially hard for the children and families who have been "matched" to receive the official MATCH from IBESR. We are hoping our paperwork goes into IBESR on Oct 1st...we were supposed to go in during Sept. God knows what our families will look like when He is finished...until then we will pray for His will to be done in the lives of these precious children.
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