Praise be to God who has blessed us so much! We recently discovered our daughter's name printed in the Haitian paper which means the President signed! Her paperwork exited IBESR a few days later! We are now moving forward again! Although we have learned to never expect "fast", our facilitator has told us that courts (our next step) is moving faster than ever (about 4-6 weeks for court proceedings and paperwork completion at present) before moving on to near immigration stage. We are scheduled to bring Esmee and meet her Haitian grandmother at the U.S. Embassy this Tuesday, July 2nd and then Eric and I will appear at two court appointments before judges the same day. Lord willing the grandmother will make it to the Embassy and travel and time spent at each office will permit us to complete all of this in one day. That is our prayer. I spoke to our facilitator two days ago and the grandmother had not yet been contacted by the lawyer. Please pray for this to happen. We will still head to court even if we have to postpone the Embassy appointment. It would just be really great to get all that behind us.
Beyond Tuesday. We now owe the next installment for paperwork, court, and lawyer fees. The amount we owe to our adoption facilitator at this time is $2,000. We will owe another $2,000 at the time everything is completed. We do not have any of this money.
It is very difficult to have to pay for Esmee's adoption once again while also raising support for our family to live and serve in Haiti as missionaries. This month in particular we have experienced many financial hardships. We are trusting God to provide a way when we do not see a way. He always does. Our family has many financial needs at this time and we have sent out information concerning those family/ministry needs through e-mail and ministry websites. We have not included this specific need elsewhere. If you feel particularly led to help with Esmee's adoption fees due at this time, we are just letting that be known here on our adoption blog .
If the Lord leads you to help with any of the $2,000 adoption fee due at this time, you can donate through our adoption fund PayPal (link located on the right hand sidebar as you scroll down on this blog) or purchase items from Esmee's new adoption fundraiser Once Was Lost (click for link). We will receive 50% of all purchases if you just write our names in the memo line upon checkout and another portion of your purchase also goes to help other children and artisans around the world.
Thank you for praying and praising God with us in this process!
Beyond Tuesday. We now owe the next installment for paperwork, court, and lawyer fees. The amount we owe to our adoption facilitator at this time is $2,000. We will owe another $2,000 at the time everything is completed. We do not have any of this money.
It is very difficult to have to pay for Esmee's adoption once again while also raising support for our family to live and serve in Haiti as missionaries. This month in particular we have experienced many financial hardships. We are trusting God to provide a way when we do not see a way. He always does. Our family has many financial needs at this time and we have sent out information concerning those family/ministry needs through e-mail and ministry websites. We have not included this specific need elsewhere. If you feel particularly led to help with Esmee's adoption fees due at this time, we are just letting that be known here on our adoption blog .
If the Lord leads you to help with any of the $2,000 adoption fee due at this time, you can donate through our adoption fund PayPal (link located on the right hand sidebar as you scroll down on this blog) or purchase items from Esmee's new adoption fundraiser Once Was Lost (click for link). We will receive 50% of all purchases if you just write our names in the memo line upon checkout and another portion of your purchase also goes to help other children and artisans around the world.
Thank you for praying and praising God with us in this process!
