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A Little Glimpse To Carry On

Thank you so very much for your prayers for our family and for our little Tarik - our one year old who is soon to be an orphan no longer.  We love him from Ethiopia and back again!!

If you haven't visited our story/blog site before, please browse around so you can get to know us and the path that we are on, by God's calling to our family, to adopt.  It's a long story and there is more to it waiting to unfold!

Since December 2012 our family officially started the process to adopt internationally.  Through twists and turns, in July 2014 we were matched with a then 10 month old little boy who we named Tarik.  He is from Ethiopia and his name means, "I have a story to tell."

Every Friday our adoption agency graces us with a new photo and a health report of our little boy. Our family 'oohs and awhhhs' over his cuteness! We are grateful to the Lord for his strong health.

I just can't hide it anymore and I want to show you a sneak peek of this little fellow that you have been praying for!!  It's been a long journey for you too!

Thank you for praying during this critical time as our paperwork needs to come through to us in order for any other progress to be made in leading us closer to bringing Tarik to his forever family!! Our agency director is in Ethiopia having meetings with officials who have a heavy influence in our adoption story.  We are praying for papers to be signed and turned over to the U.S. this week!  There is POWER in PRAYER!

(We do have to 'hide' Tarik's handsome face to give some privacy - rules and regulations stuff.) 


Drum rollllll........


I know it!  Oh so sweet little ball of cuteness!  Yes, it's a boy with a warm pink sweater ;)!  Thankful for his caregivers who dress him each day.  Praying for him to soon be home!

Philippians 4:6-7 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."


Mark 11:24 "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."


Jeremiah 29:11-15 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile." 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED PRAYERS!!

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