Prayers for the babies and an AWAA family

Hi all,

I am so sad to have to post this. An AWAA family that received a referral of a 2 month old girl at the end of July has lost their precious baby girl. She was hospitalized with pneumonia earlier this week and last night God brought her home to be with Him. My heart aches for this family. Please lift them up in prayer and also lift up all the babies in our agency's Transition House (place where they go when they have been matched to a family and are just waiting for the paperwork for the adoption to be finalized), as well as the director and nannies at the Transition House. Many of the babies if not most have upper respiratory infections and it can also be common to get an intestinal parasite. Please lift up their tiny immune systems to the Lord for protection.

Thanks for your prayers for our kiddos in Ethiopia. I've become e-friends with many families, and we really are one big Ethiopian adoption family. It's so hard to see another family hurting like this and to see our precious babies fighting so much sickness.

Family Picture

Here we all are - one big happy commune in Delaware! haha - Roscoe and I are left, then my mother and father, and sister-in-law, nephew, and brother.

Something to think about

Senator Obama says responsibility of being a father doesn't just end at conception...

conception = the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both (according to Webster)



So Obama, would you say that someone is the father of a fetus? But can that be? Since according to Webster again, a father is "a man who has begotten a child", not a fetus. Hmmmm... It's hard to know what you stand for unless you say what you mean and mean what you say.

Chapman Family

AWA posted this on their blog:

The Chapman family will be making media appearances beginning next week. This will be the first since the tragic loss of Maria on May 21st. Please continue to keep the Chapmans in your prayers, and that through these interviews, God will be glorified and His gospel will be clearly and boldly proclaimed.

August 5th – Good Morning America (ABC) 7:00 – 9:00 AM (All time zones)
August 7th – Larry King LIVE! (CNN) 9:00 PM (Eastern time)
August 13th – People Magazine

Referrals for July

Soo, we are getting closer!! If you check the ticker, we've almost been waiting five months for a referral! The wait for a boy is 5-7 months. (We're looking at closer to seven i think). July had many boy referrals - we are seven boy referrals closer to our son! There were three other referrals - one girl and two older siblings (i think). Anyway, that is 10 referrals for the month of July! Fantastic! At this rate, it will be mid to late October for our referral. But you know as soon as I start to plan, it will change. So I'm not planning for it - no expectations. I will be completely surprised because I am NOT going to think about it (hahahahaha - if you know me, you are laughing right now or saying a sarcastic "whatever Julia - try as hard as you want!")

Come on Micah! We're ready to have you home and make you a Buckeye!!

Power and Power

Hi all,

First thanks to all who prayed for the Gibson's in ET with their road bumps and snags. They are now home and precious Zoie is getting well and eating well. They even got bumped to business class on the way home! Praise the Lord! We are definitely flying United Arab Emirates - my parents also got bumped to business class on the UAB flight home from Africa. (Power of Prayer)

Now on to news about electric power in ET. THis was posted by a friend of mine from our Yahoo chat group for families adopting from ET from our agency (AWA). Thanks Karen!

The article's a bit vague but it sounds like the power rationning in
Addis may be coming to a close!! Yay! *karen

Ethiopia - EEPCo stops power shedding

After three months of darkness the Ethiopian Electric Power
Corporation (EEPCo) is to stop the power shedding program as of
Monday, July 21, 2008.

EEPCo has for the last three months shed power after its dams were
depleted but after adequate rain water flow to the dams in recent
weeks, it is to stop the power shedding that has worsened the
economic condition of the country.

Power interruption in Ethiopia has caused a considerable amount of
damage to the economy that is estimated according to reports at over
a billion birr. The corporation faces a power shortage of over 40% in
the capital city, Addis Ababa. Out of the total 200MW of electric
power needed, the corporation was short 80MW.

The rest of the article here:
http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?
title=ethiopia_eepco_stops_power_shedding&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Prayer Time!

So here's the scoop.

There are currently three families in Ethiopia picking up their children whom they adopted. Two have blogs -Gibsonsand Raymers. Their children are beautiful and both have great blogs to tell the story of their journey. Check out the pictures and videos!

The Gibson's hit snags in their process and have to stay a week or two longer than planned. Please pray that the paperwork can be fixed. There was a misspelling on the adoption decree. Also, their little Zoie Senait is very sick with raspy cough and difficulty breathing. She is in the hospital today and the family is very scared. She is small and undernourished. She needs to be covered in prayer!!

Duni, our adoption coordinator, is flying to Ethiopia TODAY to help out the Gibson's with their paperwork and to help get court dates for families who have referrals. These 8-10 families are hoping to get court dates before closure (Aug 7th) and are hoping the court dates go smoothly the FIRST time. If these families cannot get through court, they will have to wait until October when the courts reopen. Their babies and older children will have ot wait two more months for them. The older children really don't understand why it has to take so long. It is sad for them.

Also, Rachel Ward, who directs the Transition Home where all the babies who are matched with families live, is sick. She needs prayer as well!

So whew!! A lot is happening.