No News

We've received many emails and phone calls. We can't thank you all enough for praying for this meeting to actually take place and decisions be made soon. Unfortunately we didn't hear about the meeting yesterday, and probably won't hear anything over the weekend. We will update the blog as soon as we hear ANYTHING! Thanks again for all of your thoughts and prayers.

Meeting Scheduled!

The meeting between the Red Cross and the Hau Giang province officials is scheduled for some time on Friday. As far as we know, they have never worked on Fridays so we are praying for a miracle. If you know ANYONE that will pray with us tomorrow for this meeting, please send them the message. This is a critical meeting for our adoption.

Still no news...

We are halfway through the week now with no news of a meeting. We were told it was supposed to happen last week or this week. We all know that nothing happens in the province on Fridays, so our best chance of any news is tomorrow. We'll keep you all posted as soon as we know anything.

"My brothers and sisters, when you have many

kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because you

know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give

you patience. Let your patience show itself perfectly in

what you do. Then you will be perfect and complete

and will have everything you need."

~James 1:2-4

Our other kids

We haven't heard any news yet about the meeting or even if it has taken place. We will continue to pray while we wait and will post something as soon as we know anything. Otherwise, here are two of our family members that you don't hear much about. They are our children. Their favorite past times are swimming, preferably at the beach, Percy Priest Lake or any swimming pool will do, barking at the neighbors, chasing a tennis ball and carrying their stuffed animals (or we could say unstuffed) around the house. They are looking forward to Dillen's arrival. I think they believe there will be more walks in store for them.

Ozzy, our 100lb Golden Retriever

Farley, our 75lb sweet Black Lab

Calling in the Warriors

We have had so much support through this process. We really appreciate your prayers and support, but we have to ask this huge favor. We found out yesterday that the meeting that was and is to take place in the Hau Giang between the Red Cross and the Justice officials is to find out why these adoptions are taking so long, and how they should proceed with them. We have been told that our case is a big topic because of certain circumstances surrounding Dillen's birth family. Please pray that this meeting takes place soon, and the Justice will proceed according to Vietnamese adoption laws. It has often felt like they are making their own adoption laws and Vietnam's DIA (Department of International Adoption) has been unwilling to step in.

So if you think of us this week, think of this meeting. Pray for these officials. Pray that the Red Cross can clearly communicate their concerns for our children. Pray for answers in this unending process.

Another Meeting

We got some information from our agency last night. They said that the Red Cross had asked for a meeting with the officials in the Province. The meeting did not take place because the one of the officials was too busy to come. We do not know what this is regarding but we are hopeful that they will reschedule the meeting for this week or next and we will have SOME insight to what is going on. The Blackwells took a video of Dillen when they were in Vietnam, and I am going to ask someone that knows more than I do about downloading part of it on my computer to post on the blog. Lets see what we come up with... Here's to hoping that you all can see our little one in action AND we get some news soon!

Finally, a New Year

It felt like we would never get out of the dreaded 2008. Really, how much worse can it get? So we were lucky enough to enjoy the company of our Michiganders that were dodging the cold, unfortunately it rained the whole time they were here. After they left Chris became ill and didn't recover totally until today. The sickness took much of his energy and the new year rang in while we slept through it. How dull can we get?

No news on the adoption front. An email from Thouc in Vietnam with out an ounce of news. It said, and I quote, "I will email you when I have good news for you." So lets hope that 2009 is better than 2008. Lets pray that little girl home. There are too many of us praying together to keep this from happening. Are you with me? Are you praying her home? WE NEED YOU!