Precious friends!

This is what we know as of 10am Monday morning...

 

They have our letter in Addis...they are translating it now...

they hope to submit it to the Embassy tomorrow! 

I added the email from Sue to the bottom of this email...

 

Please join us in praying for the following! 

• Pray that the letter is acceptable to the Embassy, as there have been "issues" with how the letters have been written.
• Pray for the staff to be able to plead our case
• Pray for a quick turn around in the dates available for our Embassy appt.
• Pray for Bedilu as he waits for us!  I hope when they "know" they will tell him that we are coming!
• Pray for peace in our hearts if~........
• Pray for all of the other families caught in this place....and those who's hearts are longing for their child to come home! (several friends!)

Thanks so much for the prayers...we know the Father hears and He is faithful!

Deuteronomy 7:9

New Living Translation (NLT)

⁹ Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God. He is the faithful God who keeps his covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes his unfailing love on those who love him and obey his commands.

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laurie

Yes, we talked with Addis today.  They said they had your letter, it was in translation and they hoped to submit it tomorrow to the Embassy and they hoped that the Embassy accepts what the police wrote.  I pray the clerk who reviews the letter accepts it.

There seems to be a disparity between what the new staff at the Embassy wants to see and what the police (in many regions) are writing.  The police don’t want to change the way they’ve always done the letter.  Some regions have now refused to rewrite documents for the orphanages (hence the Embassy).