Progress!

We received good news from the U.S. Embassy this week. It appears that MOWA will be issuing approval letters for families whose court decrees are dated before April 25th (ours is dated April 21st). We will hopefully receive this letter (called the vital letter) by Monday. Our adoption agency is working to get Luke's required medical physical completed by Monday. The next step will be getting his Ethiopian passport. For reasons unknown to us, there have been difficulties recently with the passport office. Families have been unable to obtain passports for their adoptive children. Our contact at the U.S. Embassy said they are working to resolve this issue. The time frame is still unknown at this point.

We are so grateful for the letter written by the U.S. Congress to the Ethiopian government on our behalf and for all the hard work by the staff members at the Embassy. There have been so many obstacles to overcome. And as always, we are most grateful for so many prayers on our behalf. Please keep them coming! Of all the efforts to bring Luke home, we know that your prayers make the biggest difference.



{Beautiful piece of art made by my sweet friend Tara Kent. We are so excited to bring our son home from afar...!}