Yesterday, we received the call we have been waiting 8 months for: we got our referral!! Our agency called us Wednesday afternoon and told us that they had matched us with a two-year-old girl! She's healthy and beautiful, though only a mere 19 lbs.
We are delighted beyond words. We had hoped (and prayed) the referral would come before Christmas, but our adoption agency closes for the holidays after this Friday, so by Wednesday morning we had resigned ourselves to getting the referral in 2009. Then we got the call! What a happy, happy day.
(Ethiopian child protection laws do not allow us to post her photo/identifying information online until she is legally ours. But as soon as she is, we'll post pictures.)
Children's Hope FedEx'd us the hard copy of Kezia's info. and papers we need to sign and return in the next 4 days. The next step is getting a court date. The court appt. is what makes Kezia legally ours. We will travel to Ethiopia about 3-4 weeks after this occurs. That should happen sometime in the next 3 months. Until then, there is much to do to prepare.
Please pray for Kezia... protection and love, love, love to cover her. Also, grace for the court date to happen without any glitches. Sometimes they get rescheduled at the last minute. We'll keep you posted.
Have a most blessed Christmas!
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What a blessing! Lord Jesus we pray for lots of love and protection for Kezia...she is Yours and you have placed her with an awsome family here on earth! Amen.
Congrads!
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