Get a Load of This!

Sometimes the most unexpected things happen in life at the most unexpected times.
For instance, two days before you leave to pick up your son in Ethiopia, you don't expect to receive an email saying your adoption agency, the one you've been with for almost two years, is "going out of business" and filing bankruptcy.
But rarely is life what you expect, so you just have to stop expecting from life and starting expecting from the Creator of Life. Not that things work out like I expect, but that He is true to His word and I know that He is.
So, we leave tomorrow to travel to Ethiopia to pick up James Melaku. And yes, our adoption agency has closed its doors and has filed bankruptcy.
We are to "settle up" with the orphanage, meet with the Embassy and then get ourselves home!
Originally, our agency staff in Ethiopia was going to meet with us, go with us to the orphanage to pick up James, and then to the Embassy. We have not heard if this is going to happen or that it's not going to happen, so we are just going to play it by ear.
Thankfully, we "know" a man in Ethiopia who can get us around and to the Embassy if it turns out we have to do this by ourselves.
God is faithful and steadfast and He has gone before us. This I do know to be true!
Please continue to pray for James' transition to our care and for our flight home. One leg of it is 17 hours.
Please pray that we will "settle up" with the orphanage successfully and everyone will be happy.
Also, pray that we can minister while there and glorify God.
We'll update the blog when we can and look forward to everyone meeting James Melaku!
Thank you for walking this wild and crazy journey with us.
It has been two years and I know at times it's seemed like forever, and surreal, and like it'd never happen.  Thanks for laboring through this with us! You all have been a part of bringing him home and we are so close to seeing what was just a thought two years ago become a reality!
Hang on! It's going to be a wild week!