Prayer Request for Ethiopian adoptions/court

Well, there were actually 3 new baby referrals on Friday, one girl and two boys, so we are #2 now for infant girl:) We also got a prayer request from our adoption agency on Friday that I thought I could pass along and ask you guys to pray for:

"We are writing to ask your family to join us in prayer for the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs (MOWA) regarding the number of cases they will be able to process each day. They have made statements that they desire to decrease the number of recommendation letters they write each day. We understand that because of these statements, the Court and MOWA are in the process of meeting to discuss and work out any potential changes or new processes regarding adoptions in Ethiopia. We want to blanket these meetings with prayer and ask you to come along side us in this."

Each and every adoption from Ethiopia has to have a letter from MOWA before they can pass court to verify that they approve the child for adoption. This has been one of the issues in the past several months, that they are sooo behind in their letters and if it's not in the file when you go to court, you don't pass until they give you the letter. Please be in prayer for us that this will not effect the process any more than it already has, or that MOWA will get the help they need to complete these letters. They are talking about going from writing 40 letters a day to writing 5 letters a day! Katie