Latest Update

Early in July we got our first update on the girls and I emailed that to most of you. It was mostly about their daily routines. Hopefully we will be getting a new update within the next few weeks. However we have received some new information in the past week. A friend of ours daughter from our West MI Haitian adoption group just got back from spending over a month at God's Littlest Angels in Haiti. Kristin (a high schooler) volunteers her time spending time with these kids and gives many of them one on one attention. Well she spent time with Falancia, our oldest. She sent pictures and told us a little about Falancia's personality. Here is some that she wrote...

Falancia is a very outgoing girl, definitely not shy. She seems to always have a smile on her face, and is always playing with a friend (she has a lot of them). She doesn’t speak much English yet, but because they now know that she will be going to an American family, I’m sure that she will get started in Joyce’s English class very soon. She seems really smart, so I’m sure she will pick up very fast. Most of her friends, the kids that she hangs around with, are pretty good at English, so I’m sure she’ll pick it up even faster from being with them.

I have posted a picture that she sent as well.

We also heard on Friday that our paperwork made it to IBESR, which is Haiti's Social Services. That is good news and now we have a little bit of a better time frame. We are hoping it leaves IBESR around Halloween. Our timeframe is still sometime next Spring. The paperwork has a few more places to stop after IBESR, so it just depends upon how long it takes at each place. Right now there are a few problems with obtaining a Haitan passport, but we are hoping that this is beginning to become resolved. There also might be some changes to the Hatian adoption laws in November, we are hoping that this will not affect us.

Please keep us in your prayers and I will update you as I get more information. Pray for the orphanages' workers, as they attend to the girls' daily needs and love on each of them. Also, pray for the girls' health and well being, as this is a difficult and scary time for them.

I posted some pictures of the boys as well, take a look below!

Love,

Allison

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. – Ephesians 3:20-1