A Setback

Below is an alert regarding Ethiopian adoptions. Please read it and join us in prayer. Nahom was abandoned, so this does, indeed, affect us. This is very worrisome, but I am confident that my God is bigger than this and that it will all be resolved, hopefully in a very timely manner.

May 13, 2009
Adoptions of Abandoned Children Halted by Ethiopian Court:The Ethiopian First Instance Court has temporarily stopped accepting cases involving abandoned children from orphanages in Addis Ababa, citing concern over a recent increase in the number of abandoned children being brought for adoption. The number of abandoned children from orphanages in Addis Ababa has grown dramatically in recent months and Ethiopian authorities have become aware of possible cases of unethical practices associated with some of them.