Adoption Update

Here's a letter we sent out to some family and friends as an update.

The latest news we’ve heard is that our court date in Ethiopia has been scheduled for May 13th. This is further away than we had hoped but we continue to trust God’s perfect timing. We are not required to be there for this date but rather someone from our agency will act on our behalf.

Similar to the Canadian judicial system, there are times when adoption court cases cannot be completed on their scheduled date and often times cases are put over to a second or third hearing. We are praying that this will not be the case and that everything will go through at the first hearing on May 13. There are a number of things that need to happen in order to prevent the court case being postponed and therefore we are asking you to pray for the following items:

Please pray that the judge will be able to hear all the scheduled cases that day.

Please pray that the Ministry of Women’s Affairs will write a supporting letter to the courts and file this document with the court prior to our file being heard on May 13.

Please pray that Baheran’s (Denver’s) biological mother will appear in court on May 13 to provide her verbal consent to the adoption.

Once our file passes court, there is more paperwork with regards to Denver’s citizenship and finally a facilitation visa will be issued and we’ll be given the okay to travel. This has currently been taking approximately three months. So if all goes well, we should be able to bring Denver home in August.

Thank you very much for your continued love and support. We appreciate all your prayers and ask that you continue to pray for patience for us as we anxiously await the day we can finally take Denver home to be with his forever family.

Mike, Karen, Victoria, Austin and Samara