We mentioned the cleft bottle campaign, and it generated another opportunity, so golfers, check this out! A very generous friend who is a PGA golf instructor has kindly offered to host a golf-a-thon during which he’ll give one-hour golf lessons for ten hours and 2/3 of the proceeds generated will go toward our adoption! Details:Times […]
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Jude’s Passport Approval!
Yesterday we got word from our case worker that Jude’s passport has been approved and sent for printing! This is great news.Now we await our own USCIS (immigration) approval of Jude’s I600. Please pray about this. This is what we need in order for the US Consulate in Haiti to do what they need to […]
Fundraiser
All – we’ve decided to do a little fundraiser to continue to raise money to pay for Jude’s adoption. We are going to order a dozen cleft palate bottles, which are not available in developing countries and are desperately needed to save the lives of cleft-affected babies. We’d like to place those bottles and have […]
Thoughts for May
This update includes a multitude of random thoughts…enjoy! The Chapmans: First, some of you may have heard that Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman lost their youngest adopted daughter, Maria, after she was accidentally run over in the family’s driveway. This family has been aconsistent voice for adoption throughout the world, calling God’s people everywhere to fulfill […]
Jude’s April Update
We have new pictures, and news of what God is doing for GLA. We just love sharing this with all of you! Yesterday we got an update on Jude. He’s begun to walk very short distances between people and things, and stands strong on his own now with great confidence. He’s also getting more vocal. […]
Update on the Situation in Haiti
There has been word from the orphanage that things are indeed settling down in Haiti. The orphanage workers are able to move about again, government offices are open again, and adoptions are moving along. This is good news.We continue to keep the country in our prayers. They are literally a starving country, with deep-seated economic […]
Happenings in Haiti
Please pray for the people of Haiti. Food, which is scarce to begin with, has skyrocketed from a price standpoint. GLA (the orphanage where Jude is) has experienced more than a 33% increase in the food costs for the children. In addition, gasoline last week was at $5.93 USD. There was rioting and looting in […]
More News
Well this is wild. We got word today as we confirmed all the documents we needed to send with our I-600, that US immigration has a new person in the Detroit office and has been taking longer than normal with I-600 processing. What does this mean? Well, the I-600 is what Haiti needs to complete what […]
Developments – Please Join us in Prayer
We’ve just been on the GLA website and saw an encouraging update. Apparently there was a meeting last Thursday (4/3) that included the Minister of the Interior, the Director of Immigration, and all the orphanage directors in the country. It is the MoI that approves passports, and they have been taking a very long time […]
I-600
You might remember that in our post “We’re In Passports! 03/28/08” that we mentioned the I-600 that we have to fill out while we’re waiting for the passport papers to be processed. Well, a group of documents has to accompany it, and we got those documents today so we’ll be submitting the I-600 in the […]