JUNE 5TH!!

We have a court date!! June 5th! We are so excited that this is only 5 weeks away! The Ethiopian courts have sped things up significantly because for our first referral we had to wait about three months for our court date, and this time it will be just under 2 months! God is good! Please pray with us that we will pass the first time so we can bring Baby Dirks home in early July.

Hope and Healing

We have received some much-needed good news at the Dirks' home! Friday afternoon we were sent the referral for a very little baby boy who is only ONE MONTH OLD! We are very excited to welcome this little one into our family. He has big brown eyes, cute little lips, and CRAZY hair :) We can't wait to bring him home.

So the process now is to:

• wait to find out our assigned court date
• wait for the day of court to come (we're guessing this will be in about two months)
• if we pass, travel about 4 weeks after that.

As we have experienced, there are no guarantees that things will go this way, but we will hope and pray for the best.

Thank you all so much for your kind words and prayers on our behalf over the past two weeks. It has been one of the harder things we've been through, but we are thankful that God has put such loving and supportive people in our lives. And the news of this new precious baby has brought much hope and healing to our hearts.